"Man's Hatred Has Made Me So"

“the Struggle Made Me a Nonracialist”: Why There Was so Little Terrorism in the Antiapartheid Struggle

Most theories of terrorism would lead one to have expected high levels of antiwhite terrorism in apartheid South Africa. Yet the African National Congress, the country’s most important and influential antiapartheid political organization, never sanctioned terrorism against the dominant white minority. I argue that the ANC eschewed terrorism because of its commitment to “nonracial internationali...

Has Debt Relief Made

Operating through hatred.

Surgeons share their challenges and dilemmas in making ethical decisions in these twelve personal stories. The three commentary articles draw out the lessons the stories address. The commentators come from diverse backgrounds including sociology, bioethics, nursing, and surgery.

The dramatic impact of Coronavirus outbreak on air quality: Has it saved as much as it has killed so far?

The outbreak of coronavirus disease (COVID-19) was first reported from Wuhan, China, on December 31st, 2019. As the number of coronavirus infections has exceeded 100,000 with toll deaths of about 5000 worldwide as of early March, 2020, scientists and researchers are racing to investigate the nature of this virus and evaluate the short and long term effects of this disease. Despite it...

Punctuation has a point, so use it!

It is all too common for systems processing natural language, whether for input (automatic speech recognition, text queries, dialogue etc.) or output (text-to-speech), to ignore or strip out punctuation. The effect of prosodic factors, such as intonation and pausing, on language processing remains controversial. While there is an obvious relationship between punctuation and prosody it cannot be...