Todd Detwiler As you set your goals for the New Year, consider planning beyond your next race or even your next season and choosing an ambitious long-term target. "If you're just looking at lots of short cycles, it's hard to reach your potential," says Jess Cover, a running coach at On Track…

5575834 Ron Paul claimed on Wednesday’s broadcast of “The Liberty Report” that all signs point toward Tuesday’s chemical attack in Syria being a false flag operation. “Before this episode of possible gas exposure and who did what, things were going along reasonably well for the conditions,” the…

Electronic synapse changes its composition based on the signals it receives The synapse can strengthen a brain signal the more that it is used This is how synapses work in our brains, and is the basis of human learning Researchers say their neurons could one day build a learning artificial brain The…

News & Technology 5 April 2017 The Event Horizon Telescope will take images of the black hole at the centre of our galaxy, and could reveal how relativity and quantum mechanics mesh One of many eyes on the sky ESO/B. Tafreshi GET ready to peer into the unknown. This week, we will have our first…

Sebastian Conran cuddles MiRo, the care robot he designed. Katie Collins/CNET This is part of CNET's " Tech Enabled " series about the role technology plays in helping the disability community. When you think about growing old together with somebody, that somebody probably isn't made of circuitry or…

Brucie Rosch In 1966, Joseph Weizenbaum sat in MIT's Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, a room crowded less by people than hulking frames of computer hardware. Before him was a teleprinter, an electronic typewriter that displays both input and output — a paper computer display. Weizenbaum put his…

Terrence Malick ’s “ Song to Song ” opened the 2017 SXSW Film Festival, and as usual, the reclusive filmmaker was nowhere to be seen. But the next morning, Malick joined “Song to Song” star Michael Fassbender to discuss the film. A Malick sighting is a big deal in itself: The filmmaker has a…

There are very few heroes in economics but for me one of the patron saints of that profession should be Nikolai Kondratiev who was shot by firing squad on the orders of Stalin in 1938. He died for what he believed was the truth. His execution was ordered because his academic work propounded that the…

Neil Howe is the author, along with William Strauss, of “ Generations ,” “ The Fourth Turning ” and “ Millennials Rising .” The headlines this month have been alarming. “Steve Bannon’s obsession with a dark theory of history should be worrisome” ( Business Insider ). “Steve Bannon Believes The…

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This report marks the end of a series of three big trains of thought. The first explained how we’re living through the Mother Of All Financial Bubbles . The next detailed the Great Wealth Transfer that is now underway, siphoning our wealth into the pockets of an elite few. This concluding report…

0:00 / 0:00 Skip Ad in 15 Click For Sound In their first interview since their children interrupted a live BBC segment on Korean affairs, Robert Kelly and his wife Kim Jung-A discuss the original BBC interview: “It’s a comedy of errors,” Mr. Kelly said. Photo: Miho Inada/The Wall Street Journal Near…

1929. Wikimedia Commons Below is an excerpt from Mark Yuskos quartlery outlook. Read the full piece on the Morgan Creek website . The first time I heard the name Babson was in 1980 when I was a senior in high school in Weston, Connecticut (serendipitous given some of the themes of this letter and…

Here’s a little parable. A friend of mine was so enamored of Google Reader that he built a clone when it died. It was just like the original, except that you could add pictures to your posts, and you could Like comments. The original Reader was dominated by conversation, much of it thoughtful and…

based on a Basic Attention Token Today, we are announcing a new blockchain-based digital advertising platform using an innovative, Ethereum-based unit of exchange called the Basic Attention Token (BAT). The existing digital advertising marketplace injures key stakeholders. The introduction of BAT…

March 9, 2017 — Physicist Stephen Hawking may be a proponent of artificial intelligence, but he has also been outspoken about the potential challenges it creates. In a recent interview, he sounded a similar tone, and offered a solution that conservatives may find hard to accept. Speaking to The…

by 10/08/2014 This week, the Washington Post's editorial board, in a widely circulated call for “compromise” on encryption, proposed that while our data should be off-limits to hackers and other bad actors, “perhaps Apple and Google could invent a kind of secure golden key ” so that the good guys…

LAW ENFORCEMENT officials deserve to be heard in their recent warnings about the impact of next-generation encryption technology on smartphones, such as Apple’s new iPhone. This is an important moment in which technology, privacy and the rule of law are colliding. Apple announced Sept. 17 that its…

The Federal Reserve building in Washington. Managing the unwinding of the Fed’s $4.5 trillion portfolio of cash and securities is new territory for the central bank, and officials don’t know exactly how it will affect yields and the financial system more broadly. Photo: karen bleier/Agence…

"Oats are a sturdy sort and they aim to please," writes Peter Miller , author of Lunch at the Shop and, fittingly, of one of our favorite make-ahead lunches (and dinners) of all times . “ There is some oral history that oatmeal can calm a stomach, begin a day, and serve well the subtleties of…

Richard Barnes It was an unseasonably warm December, and somewhere nearby a rising tide in the San Francisco Bay was lifting all kite-surfers, but Nick Edwards and Chris Monberg were crouched at opposite rented desks in a shared coworking space near the Caltrain station in SoMa wondering if, by the…

Kara Stein, a Democratic commissioner at the nation's securities regulator, on Thursday, March 9, raised concerns with Snap 's ( SNAP ) extraordinary issuance of non-voting shares with its initial public offering last week, arguing that regulators need to "critically assess" their regime for IPOs in…

It’s certainly a long way from Grand Theft Auto . Henry David Thoreau ’s classic “Walden” is the inspiration for what Smithsonian Magazine is calling “the world’s most improbable video game”: Walden, a Game. Instead of offering the thrills of stealing, violence and copious cursing, the new video…

Illustration: Tomasz Walenta Scientific research often generates obscure little factoids, and two recent papers on an obscure little part of the brain seem to fit that mold. When you look more closely, however, the research reveals something grimly pertinent about the neurobiology of aggression. The…

Traders follow market activity at the New York Stock Exchange on Feb. 9. The divergence between equities and bond yields is generating debate about the valuation of riskier assets. Photo: Mark Lennihan/Associated Press Stocks and bonds are again moving in tandem after diverging in recent months—a…

There is no higher God in Silicon Valley than growth. No sacrifice too big for its craving altar. As long as you keep your curve exponential, all your sins will be forgotten at the exit. It’s through this exponential lens that eating the world becomes not just a motto for software at large, but a…

DHH Creator of Ruby on Rails, Founder & CTO at Basecamp (formerly 37signals), NYT Best-selling author of REWORK and REMOTE, and Le Mans class-winning racing driver. Nov 4, 2015 #WEBSUMMIT2015 About 12 years ago, I co-founded a startup called Basecamp : A simple project collaboration tool that helps…

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Mr. Speaker, Mr. Vice President, Members of Congress, the First Lady of the United States, and Citizens of America: Tonight, as we mark the conclusion of our celebration of Black History Month, we are reminded of our Nation's path toward civil rights and the work that still remains. Recent threats…

Illustration by Doug Chayka; Photo by Stephen Crowley/The New York Times President Trump presents a problem to those who look at politics in terms of systematic ideologies. He is either disinclined or unable to lay out his agenda in that way. So perhaps it was inevitable that Mr. Trump’s chief…

“The best thing a human being can do is to help another human being know more.” — Charlie Munger “Go to bed smarter than when you woke up.” — Charlie Munger Most people go through life not really getting any smarter. Why? They simply won't do the work required. It's easy to come home, sit on the…

SAN FRANCISCO — In 2011, Brett King was promoting his book, “Breaking Banks,” and creating a start-up that he hoped would do to the banks what Amazon did to the retail industry and Facebook did to media. “We had grand ideas of being the Facebook of banking, and being a new form of bank account,” Mr.…

Enlarge Karen Bleier/AFP/Getty Images Digitising Business Thanks for the memory: How cheap RAM changes computing The secret world of microwave networks Spreadsheets have ruled Earth for too long—business must embrace the cloud Pizza, the unsung agent of the robot revolution Humanity’s war on…

Social media is about to be much more important for financial advisors, and not just as a content marketing tool or way to interact with millennials. It could be soon play a large role in the fundamental research advisors rely on to make decisions for their clients. LikeFolio, a technology that uses…

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Over the weekend I received an email from a reader with a couple of questions I get a lot lately: It seems clear the stock market is overvalued right now but have you ever written favorably about market conditions? And if it’s true that the risk-to-reward setup in owning stocks is not compelling…

I'm a huge fan of Laurence Endersen's book: Pebbles of Perception: How a Few Good Choices Make All The Difference . I think it deserves to be on the shelf of every knowledge seeker in the world. There is a chapter in the book on lifelong learning. When we are captain of our own ship, life can be a…

In April of 1958, Hunter S. Thompson was 22 years old when he wrote this letter to his friend Hume Logan in response to a request for life advice. Thompson's letter, found in Letters of Note , offers some of the most thoughtful and profound advice I've ever come across. April 22, 1958 57 Perry…

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One of the five simple notions to solve problems is the concept of inversion . To solve problems we need to look at them both forward and backward. But how does this look in practice? Let me give you an example that Charlie Munger gave during a speech. Munger liked to give his family little puzzles.…