News Roundup on Cool Cosmic Questions

Pop Culture
With a production budget of around $400 million “Avatar: Fire And Ash” joins goliaths like Star Wars and Jurassic Park for being some of the most expensive movies ever produced. Yeah, but will it be worth it? The original was great the first sequel was a snooze.
I’ve never been a big Doctor Who fan but other nerd friends love it. How about you? Are you going to do what you need to do to find and watch the spin-off?
Artificial Intelligence
The new book, “Rewiring Democracy,” explores the strengths and vulnerabilities of democracy under a growing involvement of AI in our daily lives. How much might we gain? How much can we lose?
Amid a declining job market and a coinciding rise of AI, the clamor of AI taking jobs is louder than ever before. What does the history of automation tell us? Can history teach us anything about this radical tech?
Space Travel
ESCAPADE’s launch was the first success among NASA’s SIMPLEx program, which selectively funds low‑cost, higher‑risk projects.
Hot, arid, and inhospitable. That’s Death Valley, the Mojave Desert and White Sands so are great testing grounds for the landing gear and robo-dogs we’re planning to use on Mars (note that the Red Planet is actually very cold so at some point we have to figure that out for testing too)
Must Watch Video
The already convoluted nature of resource analysis appears especially confusing when discussing the extent to which artificial intelligence consumes water. What makes these calculations so difficult?


