In 2004 I decided that I wanted to complete a nonprofit project. I didn’t have something specific in mind but my attitude was that the world had a million problems so it would be very easy for me to figure out which one I would focus on. It turns out that it was not easy […]
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How Do We Stop Unjustified Police Violence? How do we stop unjustified police violence and treating black and brown people worse than everyone else? One of the best ways to measure success with convictions but convictions are totally dependent on the will of the local community. The first step in a conviction involves laying charges but
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Do Black Lives Only Matter When They’re In The News? How Can We Stop Unjustified Deaths? [George Floyd: May 25, 2020] George Floyd was arrested for allegedly using a counterfeit $20 bill then he was killed by a police officer that decided to kneel on his neck for eight minutes – for no apparent reason.
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Digital Identity VS Physical Identity. The Importance Of Digital Identity. If you live in a wealthy country there are people that know things about you that you don’t know about yourself. If you live in a developing country, you have the opposite problem – you don’t exist. So let’s break this down. If you live
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Would You Design A Baby? Genetic Enhancement. Ethics. Regular gene therapy only affects the genes of the individual undergoing the therapy. ‘Germline’ gene therapy allows the modified gene to be passed on to future generations. Is that okay? The obvious question to ask here whether we should be interfering with natural human development. The same
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Mental Health. Let’s Remove The Stigma. My generation was told that having a mental health issue meant that you were a soft and useless human being. You should never admit that you have a mental issue and you should get tougher and figure it out on your own. In the meantime, younger generations have to
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To Save The Planet, We Have To “Design Out” Waste. The Circular Economy Explained. In rich countries, we’ve always made stuff that we want without giving any thought to what we’re going to with that stuff when we’re done with it. This is linear thinking. some people call it ’take-make-waste” and it has an irreversible negative
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Gender Parity Can Improve The Economy. But There’s More… According to PwC’s Women in Work Index, achieving economic gender parity could add: $250 billion to the GDP of the United Kingdom $1.75 billion to US GDP $320 billion to Japan’s GDP $310 billion to Germany’s GDP China could add $2.5 trillion to its GDP by
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Online Privacy. Social Credit: What’s Your Rating? Digital Identity The Chinese communist party has created a social credit system. The simple summary is that this system will track everything you do and give you a score or rating that measures how trustworthy you are based on how well you have behaved in society. Things that
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Does Your Success Depend On Your Genetics? Is There A Gene For Determination? What about altering the genes of an embryo to improve intelligence or athletic ability? Only 1 in 10 say yes but I suspect that number will increase over time. But, what’s “really” going here? The people that answered ‘yes’ in this survey
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