Sentences with phrase «on human vulnerabilities»

Palihapitiya has repeatedly criticized social media in general, saying it preys on human vulnerabilities and that he doesn't allow his children to use it.

But its sunny exterior conceals some sharp observations on human vulnerability and how easily self - preservation can calcify into mere selfishness.

Not exact matches

«They do focus on vulnerability and human connection.

And while it mostly centers on law enforcement and the national security apparatus, it could also affect the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS)-- a department that has been roundly criticized for its cybersecurity vulnerabilities.

SAN FRANCISCO — Facebook, already taking heat for exploiting vulnerabilities in human psychology to hook people on social media, got lit into again Tuesday, this time by a prominent technology chief executive who said the giant social network is addictive like cigarettes and should be regulated like big tobacco.

She goes on to argue that vulnerability is at the the center of meaningful human experience and leads to courage, compassion and connection.

«We're beginning to understand that genetics is really about vulnerability,» says neuroscientist Pat Levitt, director of the Vanderbilt Kennedy Center for Research on Human Development.

For his analyses, he has created and collected many socioeconomic indices for the world, countries and often even provinces like human development, GDP, capital stock, exchange rates, price indices and data on security, building inventory and vulnerability in all countries exposed to disasters.

The House of Representatives Committee on Energy and Commerce Chairman Fred Upton and Oversight and Investigations Subcommittee Chairman Tim Murphy released a report on August 6 addressing data protection at the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) and its operating divisions and its vulnerability to cyber-breaches.

Researchers may be on the verge of exploiting the vulnerabilities of a virus that causes cervical cancer, thanks to a newly developed technique that enables scientists to mass - produce human...

Three separate Working Groups contribute to the Assessment, which analyzes the current scientific understanding of impacts of climate change on natural, managed and human systems, the capacity of these systems to adapt and their vulnerability.

I guess it's no surprise that, like so much of the reporting on the issue, the real story — of government lies, of the vulnerability of secret information, of what the leaked intelligence does to our trust in our own government — is sidelined by the human sideshow.

An actor who wears her vulnerability in her every expression, she gives great depth to this character on the precipice of adulthood, learning, as she must, that to prosper in her world you need to rid yourself of human emotions and replace them with acceptably false facsimiles.

The LDCF plays a key role in addressing urgent and immediate adaptation needs of least developed countries, focusing on reducing the vulnerability of sectors and resources that are central to human and national development, such as water, agriculture and food security; and infrastructure, as identified and prioritized in their National Adaptation Programmes of Action (NAPAs).

Read this book for the audacious and brave perspective that McKeon shines on our very human vulnerabilities.

In her best - selling story collection, Birds of America («[it] will stand by itself as one of our funniest, most telling anatomies of human love and vulnerability» — James McManus, front page of The New York Times Book Review), Lorrie Moore wrote about the disconnect between men and women, about the precariousness of women on the edge, and about loneliness and loss.

These interests are a clear influence on Pore, an exhibition that presents a sculptural exploration of the vulnerability of the human body and the permeability of its borders.

Forms resembling the human figure seemingly suffer in isolation (Selfish Thinking, 2017) or in dark, ominous compositions (Study on Vulnerability, 2018).

The talk expands on «Sex on Paper,» a visual feature curated by New York - based artist Mathew Cerletty in the Art & Sex Edition — a selection of works on paper that «playfully reflect some of the many complications of human sexuality: fantasy, twisted obsession, unbridled lust, sweet vulnerability, and of course the simple beauty of a physical connection.»

When Hatoum began making sculpture, a focus on the physical vulnerability of the human body continued to permeate her work.

An intensely personal artist, Bourgeois creates works that often draw on her own life experience: her vulnerability and fear, and the mystery and beauty of human emotions.

Today she continues to use pantyhose, air conditioning parts, and other salvaged materials to construct poetic environments that meditate on the resilience and vulnerability of the human body and the forces that shape our experiences of the world.

In Nengudi's hands, these materials take on symbolic meanings that relate to the resilience and vulnerability of the human body and to the forces, both social and psychological, that shape our experiences of the world.

Digitally erasing the show's host, prizes, and other narrative trappings, Pfeiffer hones in on the facial expressions and body language of the game show's contestants, elucidating their shared human vulnerability.

The sculpture represents the bottom half of a giant figure, one of whose feet rests on an eight - foot - high human head that seems to be sinking into the earth or emerging from it — a symbol of the body's vulnerability in adverse conditions.

«Dating from the 1970s to the present, the works on view focus on the use of language as a material in art, the vulnerability of the human body, and the ability of artworks to shape - shift, taking on the character of architecture, décor, or found objects,» according to the press release.

Here he presents monumental new paintings reflecting on the human condition, and the individual's vulnerability in a rapidly developing world.

Concerned with what she calls «poetics of vulnerability» throughout her career, Siopis's recent works pioneered glue and ink medium; they reflect on how accentuating painting process as human openness to non-human material, can be a model to think through larger power relations.

Works on view by Asante — once described by Maya Angelou as «visualizing the truth about the vulnerability and power of the human being» — serve as contemplations on African American experience, visualized in color monotypes that appropriate vintage photographs.

This volume provides an overview of the artist's work of the last 10 years, with commentary on Taylor - Wood's exploration of such themes as the inner psyche, vulnerability — both emotional and physical — suspended states of being and the aspiration to transcend human limits.

In her oeuvre, the artist reflects upon the world and the human vulnerability, focusing particularly on violence.

Current and likely future impacts of global warming on ecosystems and human activities are also considered, including biodiversity, system buffering and resilience, and regional inequality and vulnerability.

As I explained earlier this week, questions related to any impact of human - driven global warming on tornadoes, while important, have almost no bearing on the challenge of reducing human vulnerability to these killer storms.

The solutions, however, must also include a much better focus than present on climate change adaptation and reducing vulnerability to drought — a «no - regrets» strategy that will help both with natural variability, and the variability that could be made more challenging by human - caused climate change.

I've been writing a lot about human vulnerability to inevitable disasters on a crowding planet.

The climate community did a great service to the country in 2006 in putting out a joint statement on the enormous human vulnerability in coastal zones to hurricanes — setting aside questions about the role of greenhouse - driven warming in changing hurricane patterns.

Despite the vulnerability of many of his own properties to sea level rise, on the campaign trail President - elect Donald Trump stuck with Republican orthodoxy in questioning human - driven climate change, and criticizing the steps the Obama administration has taken to combat it.

The effects of temperature extremes on human health have been well documented for increased heat waves, 46,47,48,49 which cause more deaths, 50,51 hospital admissions52, 53,54 and population vulnerability.55, 56

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(1) to provide new and additional assistance from the United States to the most vulnerable developing countries, including the most vulnerable communities and populations therein, in order to support the development and implementation of climate change adaptation programs and activities that reduce the vulnerability and increase the resilience of communities to climate change impacts, including impacts on water availability, agricultural productivity, flood risk, coastal resources, timing of seasons, biodiversity, economic livelihoods, health and diseases, and human migration; and

The NRC recommendations highlight the need for a change in orientation to an overarching strategic research focus on adaptation, mitigation, and human and societal vulnerability.

The National Research Council's 2009 report Restructuring Federal Climate Research to Meet the Challenges of Climate Change establishes six priorities for reorganizing the USGCRP around integrated scientific - societal issues and the strengthening of research on the human and societal dimensions of climate change adaptation, mitigation, and vulnerability.

This paper finds that under a wide range of assumptions about future growth in wealth and population, and about the effects of human - caused climate change, in every case there is far greater potential to affect future losses by focusing attention on the societal conditions that generate vulnerability to losses.

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Chris Field, co-chair of the next IPCC assessment of climate change impacts, adaptation, and vulnerability, and Mike MacCracken of the Climate Institute were interviewed February 3 on human - driven climate change and its potential impacts and responded to global warming «skeptics».

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«The Earth's climate system is highly nonlinear: inputs and outputs are not proportional, change is often episodic and abrupt, rather than slow and gradual, and multiple equilibria are the norm... there is a relatively poor understanding of the different types of nonlinearities, how they manifest under various conditions, and whether they reflect a climate system driven by astronomical forcings, by internal feedbacks, or by a combination of both... [We] suggest a robust alternative to prediction that is based on using integrated assessments within the framework of vulnerability studies... It is imperative that the Earth's climate system research community embraces this nonlinear paradigm if we are to move forward in the assessment of the human influence on climate.»

This will most likely increase human vulnerability in concerned areas, and have major impacts on food security.

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We also need to call on local officials to do some intense creative thinking focused on freeing up resources being spent on maladaptive programs (i.e. those that increase GHG emissions and / or threaten human vulnerability to climate change impacts) for worthy causes such as those being presented by ICLEI USA through Climate Communities.