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Green Junction Over the past century, paints and gasoline were the two main consumer products that contained and exposed people to toxic lead. The environmentalist Rene Dubos warned the public in 1969 that “the problem [of lead exposure] is so well-defined, so neatly packaged, with both causes and cures known, that if we don't eliminate... Continue Reading →
This is the first of three parts. It follows a parish study group, a challenging word, and an election that won’t wait. Come back each Wednesday for the next two weeks to follow the story as it unfolds, one part at a time. In early April 1962, a congressman named Frank Kowalski, worried about the... Continue Reading →
Why AI governance is not really about controlling AI, and why that matters to you On the morning of 20 March 1905, the workers of the R. B. Grover shoe factory in Brockton, Massachusetts, were arriving for the day shift when the boiler let go. The explosion threw the boiler through the roof. The four-story... Continue Reading →
....the See-Judge-Act method, what questions come to mind as you read this for your discernment process? In November 1968, a Trappist monk from Kentucky climbed into the foothills of the Himalayas to meet a 33-year-old refugee. Thomas Merton — the most famous Catholic writer of his generation — had come to Dharamsala, India, to sit... Continue Reading →
A Village That Said No In the summer of 1942, a French government minister arrived in a small Protestant village on a remote plateau in south-central France, carrying an order. He wanted a list — the names of every Jew hiding in Le Chambon-sur-Lignon, so the Vichy police could round them up. The village’s pastor,... Continue Reading →
A few months ago, I watched a friend ask an AI chatbot whether she should leave her job. It gave her a tidy pros-and-cons list. It was helpful, in a way. But it couldn’t tell her anything about who she wanted to become — and that’s not a glitch to be fixed in the next model update.... Continue Reading →
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