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Elon's Concerning Innovation
On November 30, Twitter’s new owner Elon Musk did a showcase on his far more interesting recent endeavor, Neuralink. Lately, he’s been...
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Nov 30, 20222 min read
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Op-Ed: Trump's Candidacy Spells Disaster for Republicans
Donald Trump announced his candidacy for the presidency on Tuesday. Some Republicans have been rejoicing, seemingly convinced that he’ll...
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Nov 17, 20223 min read
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The Abortion Question: How Philosophy can Help
Over the summer, Dobbs v. Jackson overturned Roe v. Wade, which forbade states from illegalizing abortion. Naturally, this put abortion...
ngnieva01
Nov 10, 20223 min read
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Paul Pelosi: Are Republicans to Blame?
On October 28, Nancy Pelosi’s husband Paul Pelosi was assaulted in his home. David DePape, the assaulter, used a hammer in what seems to...
ngnieva01
Nov 5, 20222 min read
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Is the Death Penalty Necessary?
Benjamin Cole, a death row inmate in Oklahoma, received a lethal injection on October 20 for the 2002 murder of his 9-month-old daughter....
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Oct 22, 20223 min read
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The Trolley Problem: Deontology, Consequentialism, and Moral Intuition
Introduction In philosophy, ethics is the study of what one ought or ought not to do. Ethics have been ingrained in our everyday life....
ngnieva01
Oct 15, 20228 min read
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A Bill of Rights for Pets?
In 1791, James Madison wrote the Bill of Rights, the first ten amendments of the U.S. Constitution. They enumerated specific basic human...
ngnieva01
Oct 7, 20223 min read
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If AI Became Sentient, Would We Be Able to Tell?
A few months ago, a Google engineer named Blake Lemoine claimed that Google’s AI chatbox (called LaMDA) had become sentient. For context,...
ngnieva01
Oct 1, 20222 min read
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Public Safety vs. Childhood Well-Being
2020 was a tough year for everyone. Many people lost family and loved ones to the pandemic or suffered from declining mental health. In...
ngnieva01
Sep 25, 20222 min read
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Peter Singer and the Dangers of Utilitarianism
For this post, I wanted to focus on a public intellectual who has greatly influenced the landscape of public opinion. It didn’t take me...
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Sep 17, 20227 min read
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Down syndrome: A Life Worth Living?
With the increased availability of prenatal testing across the United States and Europe, the birthrate of children with Down syndrome has...
ngnieva01
Sep 6, 20222 min read
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