Though all eyes have been on the Suez Canal situation lately, Los Angeles is in the midst of its own slightly-less-flashy shipping crisis—so, what should we do?
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Category: Weekly News Profile
The Implications of the Suez Canal Crisis
A single ship has blocked a canal that handles 30% of the globe’s shipping traffic for days (and at the time of writing, is still stuck there). Does this have larger implications for the way the world currently approaches manufacturing and globalization?
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An Examination of Uber’s Responsibility to Their Drivers
A recent ruling from a court in Britain has caused Uber to reclassify its drivers, allowing them increased benefits such as a minimum wage – is this something that can or should occur in other countries?
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When Science Fails Minorities: Complications with the COVID-19 Vaccine
Some minorities have understandable fears about the COVID-19 vaccine—how can those fears be assuaged, and whose responsibility is it to do so?
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Fuzzy Ownership of NFTs
The rapid expansion of the market for NFTs, a popular new kind of cryptocurrency, raises questions about the intricacies of digital ownership.
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Implications of Interplanetary Translocation
The recent successful landing of NASA’s Perseverance rover on Mars gives us cause to consider the extent to which we are ethically obligated to prevent the “contamination” of other planets with earthly life.
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The Inequality of Virtual Reality
Virtual reality seems like a great escape, especially after nearly a year of lockdown, but it’s rife with inequities; do technology companies have a responsibility to combat these inequities before VR becomes a larger part of our daily lives?
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Facebook’s Role in Mitigating Vaccine Misinformation
Facebook is cracking down on the spread of misinformation about vaccines – is this a violation of free speech or a valid effort to protect the public?
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Learning to Trust Black Box Artificial Intelligence
Rolls-Royce’s “AI 2.0” has a massive series of checks to ensure its integrity; should this be the standard for other “explainable” AIs?
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How Apps are Influencing Reddit’s War with Wall Street
2/1/2021 While 2020 was undoubtedly a strange year for the stock market, with industries swinging unprecedentedly up and down due to the COVID-19 pandemic, January…
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