From MIL OSIPost
Who owns an AI generated song? What we can learn from the phonograph and the evolution of copyright laws
History suggests copyright adapts to technology. AI may be no exception.
Archive
The Conversation
From MIL OSIPost
The 2026 World Cup has been a tournament where alcohol brands hoped to win influence through sponsorship
Tournament sponsors have a captive audience.
From MIL OSIPost
Can a power company take your land to support a data center? It depends
Courts have long let utilities seize private property to build transmission lines. Does that hold if the power flows to a single data center?
From MIL OSIPost
How to avoid tick bites in your yard or while hiking in the woods, and what to do if one starts feasting on you
A tick disease researcher explains the risks and how she avoids bringing home ticks from both work and walking her dog in the woods. Lint rollers, tick checks and some types of chemicals play a role.
From MIL OSIPost
Mindfulness is often presented as a path to calm, but its Buddhist roots explain why it can also bring difficulties
Mindfulness can improve health and well-being, but it may not work for everyone. Buddhist teachings suggest that how it is practiced – and who guides it – matters.
From MIL OSIPost
After 1776, the founders designed a government that accounts for ‘a degree of depravity in mankind’
After the colonists declared their independence, designing a government was next. Three of the founding generation said the new government needed to account for the flaws in human nature.
From MIL OSIPost
A perfect storm of factors is driving up US produce prices, but shoppers can still save
US shoppers are seeing higher fruit and vegetable prices thanks to trade tensions, extreme weather and geopolitics, just to name a few reasons.
From MIL OSIPost
Foundations can outlive their charitable missions – and that’s a problem
The missions the foundations’ original donors champion during their lifetimes can become outdated after they’ve died.
From MIL OSIPost
Has the World Cup been a soft power failure for the US?
A string of controversies look set to turn the tournament into a lesson in how soft power can fail.
From MIL OSIPost
Melatonin may help ease chronic muscle and joint pain, new study suggests
Melatonin is known for helping us sleep, but a new study suggests it may also ease chronic muscle and joint pain.
From MIL OSIPost
Wherever AI is heading next, older people want a say
The AI industry is dominated by young, male tech workers. It runs the risk of developing apps and tools that reproduce these gender and age-biases.
From MIL OSIPost
Why some primates have even tougher births than humans
Tamarins and squirrel monkeys have babies with unspeakably large heads compared to their mother’s birth canal.