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A new technology can pinpoint victims of intimate partner violence four years earlier than other detection systems and with 80% accuracy. The Automated Intimate Partner Violence Risk Support System (AIRS) utilizes clinical history and radiologic data to pinpoint patients seen in the emergency room who may be at a risk for intimate partner violence (IPV). Developed over the past five years, AIRS has been rolled out to the Brigham and Womens Hospitals Emergency Rooms in Boston as well as surrounding primary care sites. Currently, the tool has been validated at the University of California-San Francisco Medical Center and is being evaluated by the Alameda Health System for its role in clinical workflow. Data labeling quality is a huge concernnot just with intimate partner violence care, but in machine learning for healthcare and machine learning, broadly speaking, says cofounder Irene Chen. Our hope is that with training, clinicians can be taught how to spot intimate partner violencewe are hoping to find a set of cleaner labels. AIRS is an AI-based program that is run on the Electronic Health Record data. It takes an individual patients EHR dataincluding past radiographic imaging results and patient clinical historyand uses an algorithm to evaluate a patients risk for and severity of IPV. This is followed by a “silent study” where the algorithm makes recommendations for patient care for patients who have been labeled as victims. Both the radiological data and the patient clinical histories have been revealing for Chen and her cofounder Bharti Khurana. For instance, Chen shared that many victims of intimate partner violence who were detected through AIRS had experienced a broken ulna (a bone in the forearm), a defensive injury. When questioned, they had lied that they had fallen down but did not have the instinct to catch themselves, which is more likely to lead to a broken wrist rather than a broken ulna. Ulna fractures signaled an attack by someone from above and were a strong indicator of IPV. AIRS clinical data comes from three sources: patient diagnosis codes (usually intended for billing purposes), whether patients opt-in to hospital resources correlated with IPV (including social workers or legal assistance), and direct interviewing of clinicians to incorporate into the algorithm for AIRS. That latter data source can often prove to be most challenging as many physiciansdespite their years of trainingare not taught to spot IPV. This gap in training is significant: A May 2024 study published in Nature found that only 25% of IPV cases are correctly diagnosed, underscoring the need for more systematic detection methods like AIRS. Suzanne Freitag, director of the Ophthalmic Plastic Surgery Service at Massachusetts Eye and Ear, who has decades of experience treating victims of IPV, cautions against treating AI as a magic font of knowledge that can replace a clinician’s training. While she believes in the pattern recognizing power of AIRS that is a hallmark of radiology, Freitag remains cautious about using patient clinical history as a ground truth for IPV diagnosis. I try to be careful not to stereotype because domestic violence happens to people of all ethnicities, socioeconomic statuses, sexualities, and education levels, Freitag says. Chen and Khurana, for their part, believe that AI can eliminate implicit biases to provide a clearer diagnosis for IPV victimization. The two first connected in February 2020, Khurana saw Chen (then a PhD candidate in electrical engineering and computer science at MIT) deliver a talk on algorithmic bias in medicine at Harvard; shortly afterward, Khuranaan radiology professor at Harvard Medical Schoolapproached Chen to discuss collaborating to apply machine learning to intimate partner violence detection. Five years and one $3.2 million National Institutes of Health grant later, Chen and Khurana have not only built and validated AIRS but are now working to expand its implementation across multiple hospital networks. Social work staff have also been crucial to the implementation of AIRS at Brigham and Womens Hospital, where Chen and Khurana have tapped into records from an existing program called Passageway. A free, voluntary, and confidential resource, Passageway allows patients afflicted by IPV to gain access to social workers and legal representation to seek help. Chenwhile not blinded by imperfections of implementing machine learning in clinical settingsfeels optimistic about AIRS implementation. She points to a 2023 study by the Pew Research Center which found that 38% of a sample of 10,000 Americans believed that AI would improve patient outcomes. While skepticism of AI is alive, Chen feels that it is important not to surrender to it. Annie Lewis OConnor, a nurse practitioner and founder of the Coordinated Approach to Resilience and Empowerment Clinic at Brigham, believes that clinicians and technology must work in tandem to care for patients experiencing intimate partner violence. OConnor, who assists in AIRS prediction model, appreciates its help in diagnosing IPV risk and severity as well as in assisting with clinical decision support. To understand the usability, feasibility, and application of AI and machine learning tools, we must be diligent in gathering evidence on outcomes from the use of such tools, OConnor writes in an email. [AI] is something that compliments and assists the clinician in the care and treatment of patients experiencing IPV.
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The category of unbuilt and fantastical design ideas known as paper architecture may have no better exemplar than the radical British architecture group Archigram. Founded in the early 1960s, its experimental architectural concepts envisioning everything from temporary cities to inflatable structures have never been builtbut nonetheless have become staples of modern architecture canon. Archigram initially published its iconoclast ideas in the form of a self-published, self-titled magazine, which came out in 10 issues between 1961 to 1974. These days though, the magazines are rarely seen. Only a few complete sets exist in libraries. That is until now. [Photo: courtesy D.A.P./Designers & Books] For the first time since they were originally published, the entire 10-issue run of Archigram magazine is being reissued in a boxed reproduction that hews as closely as possible to the original’s unique physical form. This authorized reissue is being brought to life through a $75,000 Kickstarter campaign by publishers D.A.P. and Designers & Books. The boxed set will start at $114 during the first week of the campaign, which will run through March 18. [Photo: courtesy D.A.P./Designers & Books] “Many, many people know who Archigram are, but very, very few people have actually laid eyes on this thing,” says Thomas Evans, editorial director of D.A.P. “Of the 10, maybe only three or four ever appear online and those tend to sell for a minimum of $400 or so.” Your favorite architects’ favorite architects [Image: courtesy D.A.P./Designers & Books] Arguably far ahead of its time, Archigram explored architecturally adjacent concepts through its magazine, including prefabrication, ecological decline, resource scarcity, space exploration, and ephemeral urbanism. They saw architecture as a tool for meeting society’s changing needs, and recognized both the promise and danger of technofuturism. Archigram influenced generations of architects, from students to some of the biggest names in the field like Renzo Piano, Richard Rogers, and Bjarke Ingels. [Photo: courtesy D.A.P./Designers & Books] A cavalcade of visuals Created in collaboration with members of Archigram, the magazine reissue project will create fresh copies of the original and highly unconventional magazines as they first appeared. Unlike a typical bound magazine, Archigram’s publications featured bespoke designs with centerfolds, pockets, posters, and cut-out and pop-up elements. Issues were printed on 12 different paper stocks and in a rainbow of colors, sometimes differing from one page to the next. One issue even included a carbon film resistor used in electronic circuits. The magazines were conceptually, historically, and materially exceptional, according to Evans. “Those three things don’t often come together,” he says. The magazine issues themselves were a cavalcade of visuals, with shades of pop art, comic books, science fiction imagery, collage, stage design, and the psychedelia of late ’60s counterculture. Produced in a variety of unconventional formats, the magazines sometimes resembled pamphlets, but at other times they were almost art objects. [Photo: courtesy D.A.P./Designers & Books] One standout example is a pop-up page from Archigram issue 4 that features cutout lines and folding instructions to turn flat paper into a 3D building landscape. “I’m fairly literate with complex, adventurous publications across, you know, a few terrains in art and poetry and the history of the avant-garde,” Evans says. “I really can’t think of a publication in any of those fields that is as materially wild and complex as this, or as ingenious.” [Photo: courtesy D.A.P./Designers & Books] Unconventional ephemera, preternatural staying power To re-create these issues in their original form, Evans worked closely with Archigram’s Dennis Crompton, who scanned original elements of the publications and advised on how best to produce some of the magazine’s more unconventional elements. Crompton, who died in January at age 89, was also instrumental in shaping the reader’s guide that accompanies the Archigram magazine reissues. The guide includes new and archival essays and tributes from architects and critics like Norman Foster, Tadao Ando, Moshe Safdie, Reyner Banham, and Kenneth Frampton. [Image: courtesy D.A.P./Designers & Books] The reissued box set also includes a first-ever index, which covers all 10 issues of the magazine. This turned out to be one of the more difficult parts of an already difficult publication process. “I don’t know how many issues of the original you might have come across, but there’s an awful lot of information on a given page of Archigram magazine,” Evans says. “It was like indexing a medieval manuscript, to go over this six-point type and look for mentions of Buckminster Fuller and Pink Floyd or whatever.” Evans says he expects the reissue project’s Kickstarter campaign to hit its $75,000 goal, and to result in thousands of box sets ending up in the hands of architects, librarians, and students. “There’s a real cross-generational appeal to this,” he says. It will be a chance for people to fully explore Archigram’s influential work as it was originally intended. “In my mind, Evans says, the core of their legacy is actually in the magazine itself.
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On February 15, protestors swarmed in front of Tesla stores and charging stations in dozens of cities across the U.S., armed with posters reading, No one voted for Musk, Go steal data on Mars, and more. Today, federal workers will head to Tesla storesalong with other locations, including a SpaceX site and federal buildingsto protest cuts to vital services and mass layoffs. More protests at Tesla will follow this weekend, all aimed at Musks work to control swaths of the government with the so-called Department of Government Efficiency. Its one way to target Elon Musk where hes most vulnerable: Teslas car sales are dropping, and his political work is pushing consumers away from the brand. Meanwhile, most of Musks wealth is tied up in Tesla stock. We need to hold Elon Musk accountable, says Saqib Bhatti, cofounder and executive director of the Action Center on Race and the Economy (ACRE), a nonprofit that is helping support the national protests. We think if Musk is going to wreak havoc on our communities, then he cant expect business as usual in showrooms. People participate in a “Tesla Takedown” protest against Elon Musk outside a Tesla showroom in Seattle, on February 15, 2025. [Photo: Jason Redmond/AFP/Getty Images] DOGE, led by Musk, has helped push thousands of federal workers out of critical jobs, from the FDA and the CDC to the FAA. (The layoffs also included workers responsible for the country’s arsenal of nuclear weapons, though the government then scrambled to attempt to rehire them.) Musk also deleted the humanitarian agency USAID, stopping lifesaving medicine en route and abandoning aid workers in chaos. DOGE paralyzed the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB), which has saved consumers roughly $21 billion since it was founded in 2011; the agency also had a plan to save consumers another $15 billion a year in overdraft fees. DOGE workers reportedly accessed sensitive taxpayer data at the Treasury Department, and the team now wants to get even more from the IRS. The list goes on. All this work likely breaks multiple laws, and lawsuits are underway. But protestors say that citizens need to do more now. I think its been disheartening to see the sense of resignation and despair from the people who are supposed to be leading the resistancethe Democrats in Congress, says Bhatti. Were getting out there and saying, Heres whats happening, heres what this means, heres what you can do about it. Because we know that people can fight back. We know from other countries that when people take on fascist, corporate takeover of the government, they can turn the tide back. A Tesla drives past protesters gathering in front of City Hall in Long Beach, California, on Monday, February 17, for the nationwide “Not My President’s Day” protest. [Photo: Juliana Yamada/Los Angeles Times/Getty Images] On the website TeslaTakedown, citizens keep planning new demonstrations. For protesters, standing in front of Tesla stores is partly a way to bring more attention to the havoc that DOGE is wreaking in D.C. But if it meaningfully pushes Tesla sales down even further, it’s also a logical way to put more pressure on Musk. Musk has already damaged Tesla’s brandand the company’s EV sales were already dropping as other automakers keep rolling out new electric models, giving consumers have more options. In Norway, where Teslas have been incredibly popular in the past, sales dropped nearly 38% the past month. In Spain, they fell 75%. Even Tesla fans who run Tesla-focused websites have started selling off their own cars. Sales are slumping in California. And though Tesla stock shot up after the election, it’s down by a third since then. A Motley Fool analyst suggests that it could potentially drop by another 50%, or more.
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The Humane Society of the United States is going global. The nonprofit animal advocacy organization has officially rebranded as the Humane World for Animals to better communicate its existing, broader work. Beyond the local shelters it’s perhaps best known for, the group works on behalf of animals to combat wildlife trafficking, factory farms, and animal testing, among other causes, globally. The new name and look, which its sister organization Humane Society International also adopted, is an attempt to reflect that. Building a brand to communicate international advocacy The rebrand also follows existing international coordination among its former country- and region-based entities. As the Humane Society grew beyond the U.S., these entities were already working closely together, sharing resources, and collaborating on strategy, according to the organization. The switch to a single global brand better reflects how it operates today and “better encompasses our mission and global presence,” Humane World for Animals chief development and marketing officer Alison Corcoran tells Fast Company. “The name immediately conveys our organizations global impact and focus on animals, and it states what we strive to achievea more humane world,” Corcoran says. “It is both a name and a vision. With this evolved brand, were expressing who we are more clearly, compellingly and comprehensively.” Signifying the interconnected relationships of a more humane world From top: The new logo vs. the old [Image: courtesy Humane World for Animals] The group’s previous logo, which it’s had since 2006, used silhouettes of animals to create a map of the continental U.S. The new logo simplifies that concept. The silhouettes of just five, easily identifiable animals are arranged into a globe to communicate the organization’s worldwide mission. Its name is spelled out in big, easy-to-read sans-serif type. “Working with the Humane World for Animals, we always knew the new logo needed to celebrate the brands advocacy for animals across the sky, land and sea,” says Brendán Murphy, global creative director at Lippincott, the agency that worked on developing group’s new name, logo, and brand positioning. “To evoke this message, we evolved the original mark, taking a core set of animals from the original logo and redrawing them to create an emotional connection and drive impact.” The use of interlocking animals in motion, he says, “speak to the dynamic animal ecosystem and our interconnected relationships across the animal kingdom.” Developing a multimodal pattern Lippincott worked alongside the entertainment marketing agency FlyteVu and the production company Nexus Studios for the rebrand rollout, which included billboards in Australia, Canada, India, the U.K., and U.S., television and audio ads, a social media campaign. Sia performs on Jimmy Kimmel Live! [Photo: courtesy Humane World for Animals] The animal silhouette concept has applications outside the logo as well. A repeat pattern of the animal silhouettes, designed by FlyteVu, appeared as the background of an outdoor ad that a tiger’s paw appeared to rip away to reveal messages. Sia wore a dress with the pattern for an appearance on Jimmy Kimmel Live! earlier this month, where she performed a cover of Peter Gabriel’s “Solsbury Hill,” which soundtracks a new public service announcement for the Humane World for Animals. The new streamlined branding and name for Humane World for Animals keeps the ever-important emotional resonance of the previous visual identity intact, but recontextualizes it to communicate a mission that’s more than just animal shelters, and bigger than just one country.
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While Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin decide the future of Ukraine in Saudi Arabia, the war keeps raging on in Europe. Kiev doesnt give up and continues to unleash a seemingly endless swarms of drones against Moscows assets, from heavy bombers to light first-person view (FPV) drones, explosive-loaded kamikaze flying vehicles controlled with gamepads and AR goggles designed to eliminate armored vehicles, trucks, and infantry units. The drones have had a devastating impact on the much larger Russian forces, so effective that Ukraines Unmanned Systems Forcesthe first of its kind in the worldhas inaugurated a new era of warfare and jump-started a novel arms race. On the ground, the relentless barrage of ultrafast FPVs has forced Russian forces in the Bakhmut sectorin Eastern Ukraineto resort to a low-tech, desperate measure: a mile-long tunnel constructed of netting designed to intercept the tiny, explosive wasps. In theory, this constructionwhich stretches along a critical supply route between Bakhmut and the city of Chasiv Yarstops the FPVs before they reach their targets, too far from the troops on the ground to do any damage. The Russians claim it works, though requires constant maintenance because the FPVs keep piercing the improvised structure. According to Ukrainian drone operators, however, it is not as effective as the Russians had hoped. Old trick, new enemies Similar low-tech solutions have been employed throughout history, often arising from a need to counter a technologically superior or novel threat with readily available materials. During World War II, for example, barrage balloons were deployed extensively by the British and also the United States, with the 320th Barrage Balloon Battalion deploying them after the Normandy landings to protect the Allies beachheads. These large, tethered balloons were intended to deter enemy aircraft from dive-bombing and strafing ground positions and cities, forcing airplanes to fly higher to avoid colliding with the tethering cables, thus making bombing less accurate. Barrage balloons protect ships unloading cargo at Omaha Beach in Normandy, France, in June 1944. [Photo: United States Coast Guard] Instead of dive bombers, the Ukrainians are using FPV drones. Instead of balloons and cables, Russians are using nets. Ukrainian drones so effective that the Russians now refer to open roads in battle areas as roads of death. X and Telegram are full of videos that highlight this big problem for Moscows forces, showing long stretches of roads littered with the charred remains of countless vehicles destroyed by FPV drones. Anton Gerashchenkoformer adviser to the Minister of Internal Affairs of Ukrainecounts here a whopping 90 destroyed Russian vehicles: a mix of trucks, vans, and what appears to be a tank, all piled up along a short stretch of road in the Donetsk region. Another video posted by war analyst Special Kherson Cat depicts a seemingly endless column of destroyed Russian supply vehicles on the Pokrovsk front. Developing countermeasures for drones Before these nets, the Russian military experimented with various countermeasures against drone attacks. Initially, they attempted to use electronic warfare systems to jam drone signals. However, the rapid evolution of drone technology, including the use of varied frequencies to control them, fiber optic cables, and artificial intelligence to avoid remote control, has rendered these jamming efforts largely ineffective. And while tank crews have been building improvised anti-drone armors around themmaking them look like grotesque steampunkish turtlessoldiers dont have that luxury. So they had to improvise and build the netted tunnel. [Photo: Ukraine Ministry of Defense/Wiki Commons] The news about the tunnel was picked up from Russian TV for Western media by WarTranslated, a Estonian military analyst who has been reporting on news on the war. The video shows the skeletal framework of this unusual defense. Russian soldiers in the video explain that the netting is intended to protect vehicles and personnel from drone attacks on this exposed stretch of road. Our group maintains more than two kilometers of anti-drone nets. We constantly improve the technology, one of the soldiers who is working on these contraptions says in the video. The nets are placed in the most exposed sections of the road to ensure the safe movement of our equipment. We strive to continuously expand the coverage area, enhancing the installation technology to set them up more quickly. The installation technology looks like nothing more than patches of plastic netting of different sizes and colors, which are hung using existing and improvised posts along the road. Parts of the road have nets covering both the sides and the top. Sometimes they don’t build the “roof” and instead install banners of the material connecting posts across the road. The Russians believe that these banners will acts as obstacles, makin it difficult for Ukrainian drone operators to maneuver into the road, and hopefully stopping the FPVs from diving in for a bombing run. https://twitter.com/wartranslated/status/1888536416008729027 The Ukrainians are not impressed The Ukrainian pilots disagree. While netting can indeed capture drones, preventing them from detonating on impact, they remain unimpressed. They point out that fragmentation munitions, effectively flying claymore mines, can be detonated remotely, showering shrapnel through the netting. Even more concerning for the Russians is that the netting itself can become a trap. Ukrainian forces are exploring the use of incendiary dragon drones known as Dracarys, maneuvering inside the tunnels to spray thermite (a mixture of metal powder and metal oxide that burns at 4,000 degrees Fahrenheit). This substance produces intense heat on contact thanks to a chemical reaction where the metal powder steals oxygen from the metal oxide, releasing a tremendous amount of energy in the process. It can burn through any armor and, according to the Pentagon, kill anyone in under 10 seconds. Another possibility is that they will use anti-tank mines to destroy sections of the netting, creating openings for other FPVs to exploit. Once inside the tunnel, the Russian vehicles and personnel cant disperse easily, becoming an easier target for the FPVs. So despite these nets, Russians could easily find themselves back at square one. But in any case, the construction of these tunnels is a testament to the effectiveness of Ukrainian drone attacks and the desperation of the Russian military to protect its supply lines. They highlight the ongoing cat-and-mouse game of military innovation in Ukraine, with each side constantly developing new tactics and countermeasures. The roads of death are likely to remain a feature of this conflict until Trump and Putin strike a deal reported to erase Ukraine’s effort and sacrifice for their benefit.
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