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This morning I spoke to a couple hundred 9-12th graders at Calhoun (my alma mater) on the Upper West Side.
I love this photo, Claire!
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Moments from this year’s All Teams by Josh
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“[Domains] aren’t engaged in the infringement. They’re not doing it. They’re not the criminals. If two people plan a crime using the telephone system, you don’t indict the phone company for connecting the call. If you want these platforms to thrive, you can’t impose liability for every one of the literally billions of transactions that runs over their system every day,”
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A New Model of Empathy: The Rat →
In a simple experiment, researchers at the University of Chicago sought to find out whether a rat would release a fellow rat from an unpleasantly restrictive cage if it could. The answer was yes.
The free rat, occasionally hearing distress calls from its compatriot, learned to open the cage and did so with greater efficiency over time. It would release the other animal even if there wasn’t the payoff of a reunion with it. Astonishingly, if given access to a small hoard of chocolate chips, the free rat would usually save at least one treat for the captive — which is a lot to expect of a rat.
The researchers came to the unavoidable conclusion that what they were seeing was empathy — and apparently selfless behavior driven by that mental state.
“Mr. Karp is
tall and
skinny, with
unflinching blue eyes and
a mop of brown hair.
He speaks incredibly fast
and in complete
paragraphs.”
— NY Observer
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