Mass media

• The results of such tests can provide personalized insights to help guide a cancer patient's treatment plan.
• Forecast Labs: Outcomes4Me and Forecast Labs, a division of Comcast NBCUniversal, have entered into an earned equity investment arrangement to provide access to performance-based TV advertising to accelerate patient acquisition for Outcomes4Me.
• "This is an important and significant time in our company history," said Maya R. Said, Sc.D., Founder and CEO of Outcomes4Me.
• "More patients need to know that they too can play a more active role in managing their cancer care, and we are looking forward to helping Outcomes4Me reach the appropriate cancer patient population via TV advertising.

• It is, at times, a cause for astonishment and, at others, for remembrance or expectation […].
• In this sense, the city is both an illusion and an allusion.” (Marc Augé, “Pour une anthropologie de la mobilité”).
• “[The] city is a spatial figure of time in which present, past and future come together.
• In this sense, the city is both an illusion and an allusion.” (Marc Augé, “Pour une anthropologie de la mobilité”).

Non-places

• His 1993 text of the same name describes a reality that is very much relevant to our everyday lives.
• By reading it, we can better grasp the apparent paradox of life in the big city.
• That is to say, why, despite the fact that we are surrounded by so many people, we still often feel lonely.
• It seems the French have a knack for unlocking the aesthetic potential of non-places.

Augé and beyond

• These include Pour une anthropologie de la mobilité, which examines the concepts of borders and migration in the context of the globalised world.
• These days, it’s impossible for us to replicate the experience of Ulysses facing the unknown.
• For instance, that we need not travel to inhospitable lands, if that notion still exists, in order to be anthropologists.
• Although Augé was born and died in Poitiers, most of his texts focus on Paris, where he spent much of his life.

• Ita Buttrose has announced she will not seek a second term as ABC chair, which means her term will expire in March 2024.
• Four of the seven non-executive directors already there had been appointed outside the merit system by Mitch Fifield as minister for communication.
• Buttrose herself put ABC independence at the centre of her commitments.
• I will fight any attempts to muzzle the national broadcaster or interfere with its obligations to the Australian public.
• He sued the ABC for defamation but the ABC defended it vigorously and he discontinued the action.
• There have been many analyses of how nine years of Coalition government attacks demoralised the ABC.
• But with Buttrose’s departure now on the horizon, it is time for others at the top to stand up.

• During the meeting, several military officers testified that unidentified anomalous phenomena – the government’s name for UFOs – pose a threat to national security.
• Their testimony may have raised eyebrows in the chamber, but there’s still no public physical evidence of extraterrestrial life.

1. Whistleblower allegations

• The Pentagon has denied this claim, and it has denied the existence of any program designed to retrieve and reverse-engineer crashed UFOs.
• All witnesses at the hearing advocated for more government transparency around reports of UFOs.
• While having access to more data may help understand what’s going on, as the University of Arizona’s Chris Impey put it, “the gold standard is physical evidence.”

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2. Sociological explanations

• People want explanations for ambiguous situations, and they’re easily influenced by others.
• “Poorly documented UFO pics and videos spread on social media, leading media outlets to grab and republish the most intriguing.
• Whistleblowers emerge periodically, fanning the flames with claims of secret evidence.”

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3. Signature detection

• Instead, scientists could potentially pick up signals like radio waves or pollution from some distant galaxy that might indicate extraterrestrial technology.
• The Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence is a group of scientists all working on the search for extraterrestrial life.
• “However, this approach assumes that extraterrestrial civilizations want to communicate with other technologically advanced life,” Huston and Wright explained.

4. Ethical considerations