While some have embraced this technology as a way to cope with grief, others feel uneasy about companies using artificial intelligence to try to maintain interactions with those who have passed away. Still others worry it could make the mourning process more difficult because there isn’t any closure. (Grieshaber & Hadero, AP News)
Read MoreWhile there were awe-inducing showdowns with the monster, the Toho International production, written and directed by Takashi Yamazaki, is largely a meditation on sorrow and survival in the wake of World War II. (Zuckerman, The New York Times)
Read MoreRecent Census data reveals that more than half of young adult men and women aged 18 to 24 are living at home, this includes young adults living in college dorms. Typically students housed in dormitories live with their parents between semesters. Rising inflation, increasing student debt and unmanageable housing and rent prices are some indicators of why young people have chosen to move back in with their parents.(Chernikoff, USA Today)
Read MoreThe bill in New York would allow mentally competent, terminally ill adults with no more than six months to live to request prescriptions from their doctors for life-ending medication. The patients would have to be able to ingest the medication on their own, and only the person seeking to die could request the prescription. (Noland & Ashford, The New York Times)
Read MoreThese firsthand accounts and other evidence documented by The Washington Post reveal the brutality and sexual abuse inflicted upon children who were taken from their families under a systematic effort by the federal government to destroy Native American culture, assimilate children into White society and seize tribal lands. (Horwitz, et.al., The Washington Post)
Read MoreContrary to popular belief, the new doesn’t replace the old. We are in limbo: a messy and protracted never-land where new ideas and old systems wrestle for oxygen. Here are seven cultural trends that will shape the next decade. (Bakhitari, Forbes)
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