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Along with a few of my academic colleagues, I organize our university’s Constitution Day event around Sept. 17 — the anniversary of the completion of the proposed U.S. Constitution at the end of the Constitutional Convention in 1787 — each year. Constitution Day doesn’t get the ...
To the editor: I'm 73 and I've been going to KU football games since I was a kid off and on, and I for one don't think it's worth it, and for the reasons you mentioned. But I have a caveat to that: Has the state of Missouri ever issued a formal apology to the state of Kansas for what ...
To the editor: Well done. Thank you for saying publicly what many of us have been thinking for decades. It’s time to end this toxic rivalry. Suzanne Mills, Lawrence
To the editor: In the early days of cloning DNA, an international group of experts met to set standards to protect human health. Why can’t we do something similar for AI? Now! Experts with the MIT AI Risk Initiative judge that many risks could cause catastrophic outcomes under current ...
It seems imprudent for Lawrence to impose a two-year moratorium on data center development. It seems prudent that every city in America impose a two- year moratorium on data center development. I’m beginning to think my intelligence is artificial because I’m tending to believe both ...
This is a generalization, I know. As Mark Twain is said to have said, “All generalizations are false, including this one.” But there is growing evidence that women tend to be more protective of our American democracy than men. They are more willing to put their foot down when partisan ...
