If machines are increasingly in charge of decisions, how does society vet them and whose interests do they serve? Who owns the machines? Problems of inequality and issues of responsibility will seriously weaken social cohesion, trust, and accountability. The logic we know to date is that ...
Oh, yes. You will likely get knocked down but that is actually a good thing. When I started out, I was an ego-centric unteachable @$$ and writing taught me humility. Still have the scars. But it also taught me that getting knocked down wasn’t the biggest deal. What mattered in th...
Turning to the second explanation, there does not seem to be clear and undisputed empirical evidence that BGs make greater use of networks than non-BGs. Cannone and Ughetto (2014) found that the personal international network of founders was a factor in explaining faster foreign sales, but thi...
He'd only ever be her baby -- her son -- she knew. But that doesn't mean Martha doesn't have more than a few feelings about Clark's biological parents, especially when she learns who they are after all this time. A ficlet in the "Martha..." series that explores Martha's feelings...
Without a clear political objective, we cannot use force to resolve conflict, and may well end up pursuing a target-centric strategy that succeeds in killing members of al Qaeda but fails to stanch the inflow of new recruits. While it’s important to have a clear understanding of who is ...
Baseballism began as a youth baseball camp in Eugene, Oregon, where the four friends (and former teammates from the University of Oregon) coached kids on the fundamentals and mechanics of baseball. Determined to expand the camp, they designed a variety of t-shirts with baseball-centric themes ...
In an effort to include more of all the MacKenzie Boys and less of just this MacKenzie Boy, I’m going to try to include more soccer centric questions that Alex and Owen take turns answering. This month: while taking the boys to soccer practices with our local club, I’ve noticed that...
several myths of “the Seventies” are gaining traction, or if the audience was just young enough that the Seventies mean little to them, or if we’re at a point where the changes in geopolitical context since “the Seventies” are so glaring as to render such a reference to them absurd...
(You can ignore the Finland-centric comment.) Stuck between Sweden and Russia, and very much regretting the arrangement. Zooming in on Oslo, we have this map: The main train lines arrive right next to the Visitor Center near the middle (very clever of the planners to direct them there),...
which boasts a thriving and noodle-centric street food scene and murderous robots that are indistinguishable from people. So, that’s the “Drive-In” part of your night — and the Dinner part is from non-profit food incubator La Cocina, whichoffers a menu of tacos fromfamily-owned tacos ...