The reason top tech companies often hire foreign-born & first-generation engineers over “native” Americans isn’t because of an innate American IQ deficit (a lazy & wrong explanation). A key part of it comes down to the c-word: culture. Tough questions demand tough answers & i...
This precedent creates an incredibly burdensome environment for technology providers. They could potentially — at any time — have any rightsholder demand that they block a site or application. Larger technology companies have the legal resources to fight back. But smaller companies, startups, and...
Americans who remember "the good old days" are not alone in complaining about the educational system in this country. Immigrants (移民) complain, too. Lately a German friend was filled with anger when he learned that the mathematics test given to his son on his first day as a college fresh...
Jim Bartlett has been an active genealogist since 1974. He has been the Administrator of the BARTLETT-DNA Project at FTDNA (over 400 participants) since 2002 and has established 23 different lines using matching Y-DNA. He has tested at all the major companies and uploaded to GEDmatch, DNA....
“No one wanted my music,” he recalls. “It was better from America. A white singer singing black music wouldn’t work. The record companies sent me back to German music.” Then, as now, German pop was a lilting barrage of bright sounds designed to elicit the rhythmic clapping that br...