Society

Can Eating a Plant-Based Diet Save the World?

There are many reasons that people choose to eat a primarily plant-based diet. Some decide to do it for health reasons and others to prevent animal cruelty. But can a

Farming Cells Not Cows

Nikki Diefenbach

Dairy without the cow is here and a new form of sustainable protein will be on our grocery shelves later this year through biotechnology. Animal-free dairy startup Perfect Day is

Beyoncé Uses AI to Teach Compassionate Eating

Nikki Diefenbach

Beyoncé adopted a plant-based diet 44 days before her Coachella performance this year. Now, according to Forbes, She is using her visibility to draw others to a more compassionate and sustainable way

It’s Time to Flip the Script on Tech Diversity Efforts

Nikki Diefenbach

There’s the diversity workshops and affinity groups. Companies try in vain to adjust their hiring processes. Yet the tech sector shows little to no gains in diversity. Aside from the

Our Children Always Do What Teddy Says

Nikki Diefenbach

Children’s minds are impressionable, which is a valuable characteristic in dynamic learning. They also trust authority figures implicitly and seek to conform. This means that how they interact with and

Happily Ever After: Storytelling With AR and VR

Nikki Diefenbach

Storytelling is important in education because it encourages creativity, communication, and problem solving, all while making meaningful learning experiences. With immersive technology, students are finding new ways to dive deep

NASA Uses AR to Assemble Spacecraft

Nikki Diefenbach

Assembling a spacecraft is much different than the traditional repetitive assembly line production. “Just about every time, we are building something for the first time,” says Brian O’Connor, the vice

Hackable Pentagon Needs to Change Their Passwords

Nikki Diefenbach

(Published October 20, 2018) Earlier this month, the auditors at the Government Accountability Office (GAO) released a report outlining the Pentagon’s faulty cybersecurity. “Nearly all” of the Pentagon’s software-dependent weapons systems, or

Algorithms Can’t Fix Us

Nikki Diefenbach

At the AI Now symposium in New York, researchers emphasized that the application of algorithms to provide solutions to social issues is not an adequate response by itself. They are only a

The Burger Bot at Creator Is a Thing of Beauty

Nikki Diefenbach

At Creator’s website, cleverly named creator.rest, they invite you to devour a mini masterpiece. CEO Alex Vardakostas, who invented the machine that makes the masterful burgers, grew up flipping burgers at

Churches as Tech Community Centers

September 9, 2020 / Voices

Automation anxiety is real. According to a recent Pew survey, 72 percent of Americans

Adapt or Die: How to Future-Proof Your Church

September 8, 2020 / Adoration

How churches engage in ministry is changing more rapidly than ever before. The continued exponential growth of technology, global collaboration and growing disruptions caused by these developments will only continue to force ministries to adapt or die. Here are several ways that you can begin to “future-proof” your church.