With routinely more deaths than births per year, Japan is now a “net mortality society.”
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April 24, 2012
April 13, 2012
Did you get rejected by Stanford? Are you a liberal arts major, or what the techies would call a “fuzzy”? Then you might have what it takes to master CS221: Introduction to Artificial Intelligence. Then again, you might not, but it costs nothing to try.
Posted in Education, Technology
April 2, 2012
Andy Revkin of the New York Times‘s Dot Earth blog is O.K. with the processed beef scrap filler known as “pink slime”, and he thinks you should be O.K. with it too.
Posted in Uncategorized
March 27, 2012
“Physics at the Fringe”, says Freeman Dyson, is what happens when imagination loses touch with observation.
Posted in Science
March 20, 2012
There’s a certain knack for eliciting untutored, naturalistic performances from child actors, and Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne are among the best in the business. Their secret? Embracing the unknown.
Posted in Arts & Literature
March 15, 2012
The financial crisis is bringing back home the old saw that markets corrode morals, says Michael Sandel.
Posted in Culture
March 9, 2012
China Miéville’s lament of the cruelties of British justice in the aftermath of the London riots, says Theodore Dalrymple, is the product of a ”typical intellectual whose indifference to the actual lives of the urban poor masquerades as compassion for them.”
Posted in Uncategorized
February 27, 2012
As the elderly population is exploding across the country, so too in prisons, where dementia and Alzheimer’s disease are on the rise. Who’s to care for them? Fellow inmates serving life terms.
Posted in Uncategorized
On behalf of the Hungarian Government, Dr. Zoltán Kovács sent the AI a reply to Francis Fukuyama’s “What’s Wrong with Hungary?” Dr. Kovács’s letter occasioned a few thoughts on public communications from Andras Simonyi, the Hungarian Ambassador to the United States from 2002 to 2007.
Posted in Uncategorized
February 21, 2012
John Gray explains why he thinks the world’s traditional religions will be alive and well when evangelical atheism is dead and long forgotten.
Posted in Religion
February 20, 2012
John Glenn recently reunited with the Mercury workers who helped launch him into orbit fifty years ago today.
Posted in Science, Technology
February 16, 2012
Since the beginning of the Arab Spring, U.S. policy has been in deep confusion on the question of state sovereignty—when we should violate it, and when we shouldn’t.
Posted in Foreign Policy
