The sales of beauty products in the US amounted to roughly $59.7 billion in 2023.
A country wealthy enough to spend that much money on beauty products shouldn't be having a problem coming up with another $60 billion to help sustain Ukraine's opposition to Russian domination.
It's unfortunate that Feynman is no longer alive, as he would have been a good addition to the board of directors of the Openai corp. He would have been expected to analyze issues of AI safety the way that he had safety issues related to the Challenger Space Shuttle disaster.
Interesting to consider what the physicist Richard Feynman thought about the field of Artificial Intelligence. It seemed appropriate to put that question to an AI chatbot and ponder the result that was returned. To read Bard's response to this question see https://t.co/s7nkrgczcj
I'm sure that the staff of the #MarylandZoo, conscientious as they are, will take the necessary steps to ensure that the Zoo's chimpanzee population doesn't pick up the #coronavirus either from staff members or from visitors. #baltimore#chimpanzee#zooanimals#epidemic
A window display in a shopping mall clothing store in #Baltimore in 2012. Who would have suspected that this display was suggestive of how #streetphotographers might need to protect the health of themselves and others in 2020 in urban settings?#facemasks#gasmasks#covid#covid19
If someone walked into a place of business wearing a handkerchief this way, it wouldn't be surprising if the proprietor called the police! Note:some states like Maryland consider liquor stores to be "essential businesses" which allows them to remain open. #coronavirus#COVID2019
@newscientist A well written skeptical view of experiments that would claim to find evidence of a mirror-image universe can be found at https://t.co/x3famtPiZ1
"America needs evidence based critical thinking". That's an excellent assertion with respect to both the climate change debate and the US Senate's task of convicting or aquitting the President of "High Crimes and Misdemeanors". #TrumpsRemovalTrial#ImpeachmentTrial#womensmarch
Recently watching the three part movie version of the book #AtlasShrugged by #AynRand motivated me to cook up this whimsical satirical depiction of the book's cover by incorporating into it the iconic character of #AlfredENeuman from #MADMagazine See also https://t.co/l4KX590Sjx
Interesting to consider another event in our nation's history, when President Franklin Delano Roosevelt declared an "Unlimited National Emergency" in 1941. See https://t.co/IKXW7eVO8c #NationalEmergency#WorldWarII#NaziGermany#NationalDefense#FDR