Saturday, June 28, 2014

Maximizing children

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Recent research from the University of Wisconsin-Madison shows that early stress – such as poverty and abuse - has a lasting deleterious ef...
Friday, June 27, 2014

The age of AI

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Computer scientists from the University of Washington and the Allen Institute for Artificial Intelligence in Seattle claim that they have cr...
Sunday, June 8, 2014

Homocentrism

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Nearly 500 years ago, a heliocentric view of the solar system was proposed. It was reluctantly accepted over time – by the religious and no...
Wednesday, May 28, 2014

The value of natural assets

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A recent paper in the Journal of the Association of Environmental and Resource Economists highlights some issues most finance professionals...
Tuesday, May 27, 2014

The data problem

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It appears that the “data age” has arrived. Aided by century old Mathematics and latest technologies for the collection of large amounts of ...
Friday, May 23, 2014

Reaching Type II

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Over the ages, many have wondered if humans could transform into a Type II society. Different definitions exist for Type II society, one hum...
Tuesday, May 20, 2014

The elite racists

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Racism has been in the air – some utterly stupid and others less so – some allowed themselves to be taped and others less so, some very rich...
Saturday, May 17, 2014

Arrested progress

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As the world’s largest democracy breaks tradition from last name based idiocy, it has significant obstacles in front of it. Often high on pr...