Opinion Commentary My research was attacked by thought police in journalism, activist groups funded by billionaires and even the White House. By Roger Pielke Jr. Dec. 2, 2016 7:05 pm ET Tropical storm
This is the last in a four-part series looking at the big ideas in Ray Kurzweil’s book The Singularity Is Near . Be sure to read the other articles: Will the End of Moore’s Law Halt Computing’s Expon
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Symantec Social media networks and their prolific use will prompt a plague of botnets in 2017, security researchers have warned. Botnets are networks of compromised devices, such as connected home gad
The slippery baby in the plastic blue tub cringes when her daddy, holding a drippy orange washcloth, leaks a bit of water in her face. He is bathing her for the first time. “Make sure you get the fold
The common auto-pilot statement (I've been guilty of it--often--as well) is that universities need more money from pre-seed venture capital to launch successful startups. After a click-whirr pause cau
One question founders often ask is which is the right customer size to target? What is the optimal ACV for a SaaS startup? One way of answering this question is to reflect upon the success of previous
It's universally acknowledged that, for the vast majority of us, afternoon just isn't the most productive time of the day . But while everyone agrees on the existence of the after-lunch slump, prescri
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Secret Back Door in Some U.S. Phones Sent Data to China, Analysts Say Security contractors recently discovered preinstalled software in some Android phones that monitors where users go, whom they talk
Around 56 per cent of "gig economy" workers say the income they get from those services is essential to making ends meet. This according to a study from Pew Research, which interviewed 4,579 workers f
Go away, pro-Trump bots [Update 5/30: I originally took this post down because it got picked up by some pro-Trump accounts that I think were bots which would post it several times a day to various pla
Republican presidential frontrunner Donald Trump -- who said he has a concealed carry permit -- called for the expansion of gun rights Friday, including making those permits applicable nationwide. In
It's the establishment, stupid image taken from Flickr user BKL by Robert Reich By arrangement with Robert Reich Step back from the campaign fray for just a moment and consider the enormity of what’s already occurred. A 74-year-old Jew from Vermont who describes himself as a democratic socialist,…
Friends: I am sorry to be the bearer of bad news, but I gave it to you straight last summer when I told you that Donald Trump would be the Republican nominee for president. And now I have even more aw
We’ve had a little over a day to process the reality that yes, Donald Trump is our new President-elect. We’ve already talked about what this means for women’s bodies , education , public health , spac
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Asra Q. Nomani i s a former Wall Street Journal reporter and a co-founder of the Muslim Reform Movement. She can be found on Twitter at @AsraNomani. A lot is being said now about the “silent secret Tr
The global warming alarmist community firmly believes it has science on its side. The science is settled, its members repeat incessantly to show how "sciency" they are, despite the fact that they are wrong. And 97% of scientists believe man's carbon dioxide emissions are causing climate change, they…
Under the glare of overhead lights, the paper-thin, ruby-red shavings of Rosangela Santiago’s muscle glow like fine gems. I can’t believe those just came out of my thigh , she thinks, watching as a sc
Liberals are understandably panicked about what Donald Trump can carry out. “We have a president-elect with authoritarian tendencies assuming a presidency that has never been more powerful,” Franklin
Tech Keywords Trump’s focus on jobs, globalization and immigration tapped anxiety about technological change Updated Nov. 10, 2016 7:39 pm ET A Donald Trump supporter on Election Night. Mr. Trump won
Published in mtracey · 3 min read · Nov 13, 2016 -- One of the juicier bits to come out since Tuesday— the most stunning electoral collapse in the entire history of the United States, mind you — is th
My father-in-law grew up eating blood soup. He hated it, whether because of the taste or the humiliation, I never knew. His alcoholic father regularly drank up the family wage, and the family was ofte
I want you to ponder the following question for a moment, because it's one of the most important questions you'll ever answer. How do you respond to feedback ? Sheryl Sandberg recently visited Airbnb
As we begin to heal on the other side of a painful presidential election, we're left with deep cultural divides that obviously have been growing there for a while. So it's worth taking a giant step ba
In The Intelligent Investor , Benjamin Graham famously wrote “an investment operation is one which, upon thorough analysis, promises safety of principal and an adequate return. Operations not meeting
This is called a preemptive posting. If there’s ever a question I get asked a lot, it’s this: When did the Fourth Turning start? So rather than wait for someone to ask again, let’s get right to it. Readers of The Fourth Turning already know that 4Ts in history are dated and internally subdivided…
27 October 2016 The American journalist, Edward Bernays, is often described as the man who invented modern propaganda. The nephew of Sigmund Freud, the pioneer of psycho-analysis, it was Bernays who c
Ok so many folks have been in cut, or conserve, or hold down cost mode for a year or so at this point. Great. And if growth is still mediocre, maybe you have to keep doing that. But for many, growth h
T he emails currently roiling the US presidential campaign are part of some unknown digital collection amassed by the troublesome Anthony Weiner, but if your purpose is to understand the clique of peo
Peter Thiel Defends His Most Contrarian Move Yet: Supporting Trump “No matter how crazy this election seems, it is less crazy than the condition of our country,” said Peter Thiel, explaining his suppo
Illustration by John Ritter One icy morning in February 2012, Hillary Clinton’s plane touched down in the Bulgarian capital, Sofia, which was just digging out from a fierce blizzard. Wrapped in a thic
Talking to Camille Paglia is like approaching a machine gun: madness to stick your head up and ask a question, unless you want your brain blown apart by the answer, but a visceral delight to watch as she obliterates every subject in sight. Most of the time she does this for kicks. It’s only on…
Until recently, when you visited the dairy aisle, chances are you headed straight for the blue carton of milk—the skim milk that is. But recent buzz about dairy fat may cause shoppers to pause in fron
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