https://classics.stanford.edu/people/ian-morris It is a provocative question and it’s being discussed by serious historians. Is the polarization in America the antecedent to a physical conflict that pits the red versus the blue, rather the blue and gray? First people look for a correlation between 1859 and the current era. A State Department official, Keith Mines, was …
https://weaponsofmathdestructionbook.com/ As a child, mathematics was Cathy O’Neil’s passion: ‘math provided a neat refuge from the messiness of the real world’. After teaching for a time, she began to apply her math wizardry for players on Wall Street and saw first hand how dangerous mathematical models, or as she titles her book, ‘Weapons of Math …
http://www.rebeccacosta.com/ Rebecca Costa is an amazing woman. She is a sociobiologist and a futurist. She proclaims that a faith in science and empiricism will pay off in conquering many of the world’s challenges if we trust it and follow its dictates. Of course, human beings can be rational, at times, but often rely on emotions(and …
https://www.technologynetworks.com/neuroscience/videos/head-transplantation-the-future-is-now-tedx-talk-by-drsergio-canavero-295184 As John Lennon once said in song ‘you may call me a dreamer’. Well, Italian neurosurgeon Dr. Sergio Canavero has been called that and worse with his long pronounced intention to do a head transplant. You read that correctly. Not a facial transplant…a head transplant. While some may say it’s a true medical moonshot, …
https://www.amazon.com/Lot-People-Are-Saying-Conspiracism/dp/0691188831 Conspiracy theories are as old as politics. But, according to Russell Muirhead, the Robert Clements Professor of Democracy and Politics at Dartmouth College and Nancy Rosenblum, the Senator Joseph Clark Research Professor of Ethics is Politics and Government at Harvard University, in their new book, ‘A Lot of People Are Saying’, there is a …
https://www.amazon.com/Stranger-Myself-River-Literary-Nonfiction/dp/0826360718 For many in America they are at different stages of the ‘woke’ process. Recognizing the social changes afoot, they are sympathetic to them, but don’t want to become totally removed from the places from which they come. Yet, those places may seem lost in time. Debra Gwartney, like our last guest, Darrell West, struggle …
https://www.brookings.edu/book/divided-politics-divided-nation/ This episode, along with the next we will post, examine how hard it is to go home when the politics of the times are as rancorous as they are. Given the transient American culture, many of one generation leave home both physically and culturally. Returning to that place can be unsettling and dissonant, as …
https://www.hoover.org/profiles/eric-hanushek Let that headline sink in for just a moment. Differences in the performance on math, reading and science tests between disadvantaged and advantaged U.S. students have remained essentially unchanged for nearly half a century. And in that time period, we established a federal Department of Education, saw funding changes meant to address the problem …
https://www.amazon.com/Downhill-Here-Retirement-Insecurity-Inequality/dp/1250119464 Just as millions of baby boomers are reaching their golden years, the state of retirement for many in America is something of a disaster. The pension process has collapsed, union protections for most in the private sector have evaporated, the Pension Benefits Guaranty Corporation, set up to protect benefits hard earned, is itself in …
History has given us a guide to removing unpopular, unable or unfit chief executives. And, despite all the chatter about impeachment, it’s only one method. And come to think of it, it’s never been successfully carried out to its final conclusion–that being a conviction in the U.S. Senate and removal of the sitting President from …