01/28/2026
Futures. Bangalore, India. đź“· anushya badrinath
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01/28/2026
Futures. Bangalore, India. đź“· anushya badrinath
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12/20/2025
Seasons Greetings from all of us at The Center!
11/11/2025
The Venerable Tenzin Priyadarshi Rinpoche spoke on Being Human in the Age of AI at Le Moyne College
10/14/2025
DenAI Summit: The monk, the mayor, and the ethical mandate Venerable Tenzin Priyadarshi and Denver Mayor Mike Johnston’s fireside chat was a playbook for AI with timeless lessons for everyone: ethics first, embed empathy and trust, and be the hope.
10/02/2025
10/02/2025
Dr. Jane Goodall, who will be remembered as an advocate for animals and a renowned chimpanzee researcher, died due to natural causes, the Jane Goodall Institute announced in a Wednesday statement.
She was 91.
"Dr. Goodall’s discoveries as an ethologist revolutionized science, and she was a tireless advocate for the protection and restoration of our natural world," the statement announcing her death said.
Read more: nbcnews.app.link/BDTIeG9j7Wb
10/02/2025
: Jane Goodall, one of the world's most prolific primatologists, has died. She was 91.
Goodall’s discoveries as an ethologist revolutionized science, and she was a tireless advocate for the protection and restoration of our natural world.
Among the most surprising discoveries Goodall made was "how like us" chimpanzees are. https://abc7.com/17918370/
08/12/2025
Gitanjali Rao, a rising MIT junior majoring in biological engineering, has been named the first-ever recipient of the Stephen Hawking Junior Medal for Science Communication.Rao is the inventor of Epione, a device for early diagnosis of prescription opioid addiction, and Kindly, an anti-cyber-bullying service powered by AI and natural language processing.
https://news.mit.edu/2025/gitanjali-rao-wins-stephen-hawking-junior-medal-science-communication-0701
07/08/2025
National Academies: New Heroes via Christopher Michel
New Heroes: The Dalai Lama In 2012, I had the rare privilege of serving as the Dalai Lama’s official photographer during his visit to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. From the moment he arrived at Boston Logan Airp…
07/06/2025
Wishing a happy 90th birthday to His Holiness the Dalai Lama! Our North Star and guiding inspiration. May you be healthy! May you live long! 🙏🏽🙏🏽🙏🏽
06/17/2025
ChatGPT May Be Eroding Critical Thinking Skills, According to a New MIT Study
ChatGPT's Impact On Our Brains According to an MIT Study The study, from MIT Lab scholars, measured the brain activity of subjects writing SAT essays with and without ChatGPT.