Society
WATCH: University Students Stumble over Who Has Freedom to Live and Work According to Beliefs adflegal.org v
Don’t like President Trump? It’s fine to tell people you won’t write a speech supporting him. Muslim singer? No one should force you to perform at an Easter service under threat of government punishment. But for a Christian creative professional, photographer, writer, or artist, it seems they must live by a different standard. To get a sense of just how confusing this issue seems to be for some, we visited the University of Wisconsin-Madison to hear what students have to say.
Judge Gorsuch and Free Exercise stanfordlawreview.org
This Essay examines how Judge Gorsuch scotusblog, if confirmed, would approach religious freedom cases. It first looks at two free exercise cases Judge Gorsuch has participated in. Then it extracts principles from those cases and from his other writings that help explain how a Justice Gorsuch might contextualize religious freedom claims. Finally, it applies those principles to predict how he would resolve two disputes he may encounter if he is confirmed: one over the exclusion of churches from a Missouri playground-refurbishment grant program and one over a Colorado antidiscrimination law that does not include religious accommodations.
A Children’s Museum ‘Surprise Blockbuster’: A Show on Islam nytimes w!
As terrorism fears have mounted and tensions have escalated toward Muslims in the United States in recent years, the Children’s Museum of Manhattan cmom.org is doing its part to help defuse the rising anxiety. Its exhibition “America to Zanzibar: Muslim Cultures Near and Far” showcases the history, art and traditions of Muslims, with the belief that education will beat back ignorance and hate every time.
Do Apes Deserve 'Personhood' Rights? Lawyer Heads to N.Y. Supreme Court to Make Case nbcnews
Wise is hoping to prove in the eyes of the court that chimpanzees and other great apes aren't "things" but rather are autonomous beings that possess consciousness and deserve to live their lives to the fullest possible extent of that autonomy.
Judge Awards Tri-Custody of Child to Former Couple and Their ‘Polyamorous’ Lover christiannews.net
“Tri-custody is the logical evolution of the Court of Appeals decision in Brooke S.B., and the passage of the Marriage Equality Act and DRL [Domestic Relations Law] §10-a which permits same-sex couples to marry in New York,” Suffolk County Supreme Court nycourts.gov Judge Patrick Leis III wrote.
Abortion
University Officials Scrub Students’ Pro-Life Chalk Messages, Leave Messages From Other Groups lifenews
“University officials can’t chalk up their censorship to ‘following orders’ to enforce an unconstitutional campus policy,” said ADF Legal Counsel Travis Barham. “The university’s chalking policy only permits messages the university agrees with. Nothing could more clearly violate the First Amendment than a policy that silences students based on whether university officials like or don’t like what the students are saying.”
Research
IBM somehow crammed data into a single atom cnet v
A hard drive today takes about 100,000 atoms to store a single bit of data -- a 1 or 0. The IBM Research results announced Wednesday show how much more densely it might someday be possible to cram information.
"This work is not product development, but rather it is basic research intended to develop tools and understanding of what happens as we miniaturize devices down toward the ultimate limit of individual atom," Lutz said. "We are starting at individual atoms, and building up from there to invent new information technologies."
3D Printing
As a rule, the words “world’s first” always get my defenses up, because everyone likes to claim to be the first ever in the history of the world to produce something, even if a quick Google search will show that it’s already been done before. When Dubai says it, though, it’s probably true. The United Arab Emirates city-state is already home to the world’s first 3D printed office building, and while other governments have discussed the future of 3D printed skyscrapers, no one has actually done it yet. Last year the government of Dubai announced its plan to make at least a quarter of the city’s buildings 3D printed by 2030, so it really isn’t much of a shock to learn that at least one of those 3D printed buildings will be a high-rise.
AI
Google's Deepmind wants to cut 10% off the entire UK's energy bill businessinsider
"We're early stages talking to National Grid and other big providers about how we could look at the sorts of problems they have," Demis Hassabis, DeepMind's cofounder and CEO, told the FT. "It would be amazing if you could save 10% of the country's energy usage without any new infrastructure, just from optimisation. That's pretty exciting."
Japan
Report: Japan to send its largest warship to train with the US Navy in the South China Sea businessinsider
Japan plans to dispatch its largest warship on a three-month tour through the South China Sea beginning in May, three sources said, in its biggest show of naval force in the region since World War Two.
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