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To these Chicago Symphony players, here’s the sound of music in an era of crisis
Chicago Symphony Orchestra violinist Danny Jin warms up on Thursday, Jan. 23, 2025, before a concert. Jin will be among a small group of players performing Olivier Messiaen’s Quartet for the End of Time in response to this prompt: What does music sound like in a time of crisis?
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Thomas ‘Tom’ Mapp, visionary arts educator and administrator at UChicago, 1936‒2024
Thomas “Tom” Mapp, a transformative leader in arts education and administration at the University of Chicago, passed away on Nov. 11, 2024. He was 88.
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PRESS RELEASE: Doomsday Clock set at 89 seconds to midnight, closest ever to human extinction
Iconic Doomsday Clock moves one second closer to midnight as global existential threats rage. Clock factors include nuclear weapons, climate crisis, artificial intelligence, infectious diseases, and conflicts in Ukraine and the Middle East.
What is the Doomsday clock? Why did it move closer to global catastrophe? What it means
What is the Doomsday Clock? It's 2025 and scientists have reset the clock closer to midnight and global catastrophe. Here's what it all means.
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“Doomsday Clock” Moves Closer To Midnight On Climate Worry
The “Doomsday Clock”, which signals the end of humanity when it hits midnight, is only 89 seconds from the milestone. That is the closest it has ever been. It has been 90 seconds away for the previous two years.
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AI concerns prompt scientists to push Doomsday Clock to ‘impending catastrophe’ levels
The Doomsday Clock is now set at 89 seconds to midnight, the closest it has ever been to implosion. The proximity to midnight reflects the scale of escalating
In major expansion of US nuclear buildup, Trump orders construction of nationwide missile defense system
President Donald Trump ordered the construction of a new missile defense system covering the United States, the latest move in a years-long drive spanning multiple administrations to massively expand US nuclear capabilities.
The Doomsday Clock reveals how close humanity may be to total annihilation
Seventy-eight years ago, scientists created a unique sort of timepiece — named the Doomsday Clock — as a symbolic attempt to gauge how close humanity is to destroying the world.
Doomsday clock ticks down, closest ever to "global catastrophe"
"The 2025 Clock time signals that the world is on a course of unprecedented risk, and that continuing on the current path is a form of madness," the Bulletin said. "The United States, China, and Russia have the prime responsibility to pull the world back from the brink. The world depends on immediate action."
Scientists Move Doomsday Clock Closer Than Ever to Midnight: 'An Indication of Extreme Danger'
In a statement about the 2025 Doomsday Clock, the organization explained the dire circumstances that went into the decision. “In 2024, humanity edged ever closer to catastrophe.
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Doomsday Clock now closer than ever to ‘midnight’: What does this mean?
The Doomsday Clock, a concept designed by the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists to represent humanity’s proximity to a global catastrophe, was updated on Tuesday.
Doomsday Clock set at 89 seconds to midnight, representing threat to human existence and the planet
The Chicago-based Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, which runs the clock, decided to move the clock one second closer to midnight because of climate change, nuclear threats and biological hazards.