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The Weekender: When SciFi Gets Real, April 28, 2012
Welcome to The Weekender, April 28 2012 edition. This week, it’s all about testing, experiments, and the battle between humans and computers. Are you in, or are you Skynet? Is Siri Smarter than Google?, by samzenpus, SlashDot : Google could go the way of the dodo if ultra intelligent electronic agents (UIEA) make their way into the mainstream, ...
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Spring Training: #Occupy’s May Day
An early spring revived the #Occupy movement in Union Square, New York City. Below, contributing photographer Lauren DeCicca has made a documentary trail with portraits of the activists leading the Spring Training for the May Day General Strike. After Occupy Wall Street was trampled in the mean winter of 2011, many people though it wouldn’t ...
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The Weekender: April 21, 2012
Welcome to The Weekender, April 21 2012 edition. This week, we’re reading… The Jig Is Up: Time to Get Past Facebook and Invent a New Future, by Alexis Madigral, The Atlantic: We’re there. The future that visionaries imagined in the late 1990s of phones in our pockets and high-speed Internet in the air: Well, we’re living ...
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The Weekender: April 14, 2012
Welcome to The Weekender, April 14th 2012 edition. This week, we’re reading… Complexity is Bad for Your Health, by L. Gordon Crovitz, Wall Street Journal: The Supreme Court has long had the role of declaring what the law is. That’s becoming a harder and harder task thanks to the White House and Congress concocting laws ...
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Revolt in the Middle East: An Interview with Benoit Challand
In this interview, Benoit Challand, a visiting professor from the New School for Social Research, outlines the landscape created by the recent revolts that rocked the Arabic world. He points out that potential crises, such as in Syria or Iran, could put a full halt to any regional democratization, and comments about the misinterpreted role ...