When informed consent, artificial intelligence and bioethics hold a complex conversation. — If a patient is unable to say “no” to a life-saving procedure, should their life be extended even if the prospects are poor? If an infant has no hope for survival, should their organs be donated to someone else who does? Can artificial intelligence (AI) accurately predict disease outcomes across…

Serving up some chai to go with that misogyny — Trigger Warning: non-graphic discussion on sexual violence, victim blaming, rape. It’s difficult to figure out where to begin writing an article that effectively encompasses the most recent and horrific gang-rapes that occurred in the Indian state of Uttar Pradesh this September, and link it back to an inherent rape culture…

And how a young man managed to solve what firefighters and engineers couldn’t. — It’s story time. One day, a truck driver tried to pass under a low bridge, but miscalculated the height and wedged the truck underneath the bridge, unable to move. When emergency services, firefighters, and engineers arrived on the spot to find a solution to the traffic jam being caused, they…

With their accompanying ethical and technical challenges. — In 1960, outside a quaint anthropological museum, Marceline Loridan pulled up her sleeve to show the numbers tattooed on her arm to her curious friends, who didn’t know about the Holocaust’s connection to the persecution of Jews. …

And the modes of representation that affect the filming process. — Talk to someone about themselves and they’ll listen for hours. - Dale Carnegie This quote sums up ethnographic films almost as a whole. When you study an aspect of someone’s culture (in essence, a part of them) so much, they tend to be more open to talking to you —…

Debating women’s ability to achieve enlightenment, according to Hindu mythology. — A beautiful woman walks into a bar and… Having spent the last 37 minutes scouring the internet for appropriate endings to this joke, I can safely say there are none. Therefore: She doesn’t. She walks into King Janaka’s court, a gorgeous young renunciant-intellectual eager to discuss emancipation and enlightenment with…

And how to be the hare that beats the tortoise. — Marketing never sleeps. At any given moment, marketers have multiple channels and campaigns open alongside the daily grind of deliverables they need to get done within a day. On top of all that, why does everyone else seem to want to sit around and discuss Schitt’s Creek? But it isn’t…

Your ability to understand customers’ struggles and desires is what makes a business successful. — What’s the simple truth about business? No customers = no profit. But if everyone knows this, then why do some businesses struggle to retain and capture the attention of their audiences? Advertising To An Audience With An 8-Second Attention Span And how to keep them interested beyond those 8 crucial seconds.medium.com

What’s the process behind your Google search on how to cut hair yourself in quarantine? — Google: Why were cornflakes invented? You’ll get around 5,01,000 results in 0.54 seconds (depending on your Internet speed, too). But how did those results end up there? The Search Engine Crawler. Before you search, a web crawler grabs information from thousands of websites and organises it in the search engine’s…