Californians vote on many ballot measures, but rarely participate in significant public discussions about the measures’ contents and impacts. This isn’t just about apathy. Rather, it’s an example of “rational ignorance,” a term coined by economist Anthony Downs in 1957, to define this democratic reality: Since your individual vote doesn’t much matter among millions of … Read more
Bankman-Fried, wearing a beige short-sleeve jail T-shirt, acknowledged during 20 minutes of remarks to the judge that FTX customers had suffered, and he offered an apology to his former FTX colleagues. FTX founder Sam Bankman-Fried leaves was sentenced to 25 years in prison for multibillion-dollar FTX fraud. Photo: AP The sentence marked the culmination of … Read more
You don’t have to be a CEO, or even a manager, to be influential at the office. Getting your coworkers to listen to and support your ideas boils down to just three emotional intelligence techniques, says Stanford University lecturer and communication expert Matt Abrahams. They can help you show your peers and bosses that you … Read more
The U.S. military is considering the use of AI during warfare but researchers warn this may not be a good idea given AI’s predilection for nuclear war. In a series of international conflict simulations run by American researchers, AIs tended to escalate at random, leading to the deployment of nukes in multiple cases, according to … Read more
By Janet Lorin and David Voreacos | Bloomberg Stanford University and Rutgers University are among US universities now being investigated by the US Education Department for discrimination. The agency updated its Office of Civil Rights website Tuesday, adding to a growing list of schools that already included Harvard University, Columbia University, Cornell University, the University … Read more
BY CAROLYN JONES | CalMatters California’s $53 million investment in teaching its youngest and lowest-performing students to read has shown dramatic — and relatively fast — results, researchers at Stanford have found. In a study released Sunday night, researchers at Stanford’s Graduate School of Education found that the percent of third-graders in the program who … Read more
