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Humans

Being human

AI programmes are crafted to curate social media content in a manner that captivates the user’s attention for long hours. Social media posts that gain the most traction through a binary like-or-dislike scheme are promoted, while meaningful journalism and art fall by the wayside.

Lessons on why we humans must unite

As the world faces its most perilous hour, the salutary truth the followers of the Báb and Bahá’u’lláh maintain is that the peoples of the earth must recognize their interdependence and oneness.

A New Lens~II

Human well-being is a measure of eight basic needs: food, housing, drinking water, energy, sanitation, education, healthcare, and social security. These needs are embodied in the various rights provided in several national and world charters. It is fundamental to ground these rights into constitutional values

Important to view history differently

Later, at a wider level, such massive injustices as the Afro-American slave trade, forced opium sales and the related opium wars, and the worst colonial exploitation and violence were used to push forward a destructive agenda in vast areas which killed millions and impoverished even more in the greater part of the world, but which heralded the modern industrialisation that has also been credited with the biggest improvements in science and technology.

Flu pandemic still more deadly to humans than Covid

Influenza kills 290,000 to 650,000 people per year, disproportionately affecting those in lower- and middle-income countries. The world has historically experienced an influenza pandemic once every 25 years.