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Your phone screen doesn’t have the same color range as the human eye – and AI widens the gap between digital images and the real thing

Your phone screen doesn’t have the same color range as the human eye – and AI widens the gap between digital images and the real thing

A peacock feather in sunlight shifts from blue to green to bronze as you turn it. Photograph it, and this shimmer collapses into one angle, one exposure, one compromise. A digital image is not a record of what your eye sees. The standard color space that most digital images use
Douglas Goodwin, University of California, Los Angeles, California Institute of the Arts
The US Constitution and laws do not protect oil companies from being sued over the harm they cause to the climate

The US Constitution and laws do not protect oil companies from being sued over the harm they cause to the climate

In recent years, at least two dozen local and state governments have sued petroleum companies to recover the billions in costs they have incurred responding to and rebuilding after flooding, storms and wildfires – all of which have been worsened by changes to the climate resulting from burning fossil fuels. Most
Alejandro E. Camacho, University of California, Los Angeles, Robert Glicksman, George Washington University
The long shadow of Paul Ehrlich’s ‘Population Bomb’ is evident in anti-immigration efforts today

The long shadow of Paul Ehrlich’s ‘Population Bomb’ is evident in anti-immigration efforts today

Paul Ehrlich opened his 1968 book “The Population Bomb” with a scene recounting returning to his hotel through a crowded Delhi neighborhood on a stifling night in the mid-1960s. He described the physical sensation of overpopulation: people eating, washing, arguing, begging – “people, people, people, people.” From that visceral opening,
Brian C. Keegan, University of Colorado Boulder, Harvard University, Emily Klancher Merchant, University of California