For Students, Less Tech, Not More — Please!

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This is a struggle going back to before anyone worried about AI. One of my worst decisions as a parent was to allow an XBOX into the house. Source
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A State of Emergency in Our Dependence on AI

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I sat down with Dr. Turkle for a conversation about her new book. We covered all the things about relationships we stand to lose if we depend on AI. Source
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In NY Post, McDiarmid on Social Isolation and the Tech Nightmare

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The wearable AI necklace, Friend, opens up a whole new chapter of horror. It’s not a parody: young people wear their “Friend” on their person. Source
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Getting Out Truth Around Mainstream News

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This was a major accomplishment, considering how intelligent design proponents or anyone who critiques evolution is treated in mainstream media. Source
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Maturing Toward God: Update from Charles Murray

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Why there is something rather than nothing is the question posed in our video, "Proof of God in 3 Minutes," about the law of conservation of matter and energy. Source
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Casey Luskin Calls on the Smithsonian to Get It Right on Human Origins

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The Smithsonian Institution has recently been called out by the Trump Administration for pushing “one-sided, divisive political narratives.” Source
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By Design: Storytelling Reveals Human Exceptionalism

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That humans enjoy being made to wait seems to have been deliberately built into us. It’s unique in nature, an intelligent design. Source
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Whoopi Goldberg: Ignorant about Darwinian Racism; But of Course She Shouldn’t Be Fired

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Hitler was clear that he deplored the mistake of basing anti-Semitism on “religious ideas instead of racial knowledge.” Source
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Stephen Meyer: Unidentified Aerial Phenomena and the God Hypothesis

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Mainstream scientists have been speculating about other-than-earthly intelligence for decades. Source
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On Evolution and Racism, Scientific American Goes to War Against the Truth

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Given evolution’s racist baggage, you might think the theory’s proponents would be somewhat abashed to accuse the critics of Darwin of “white supremacy.” Source
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