Category: currentaffairs
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Life 3.0
Life 3.0 by Max Tegmark is part of a pairing with “Homo Deus” to force some noodling on some threads on the evolution of man. One line summary: great book for placing the advent of Artificial Intelligence into the context of human evolution and for putting some visible milestones to look for before we start […]
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Delicious Watergate
I can’t believe I am only just coming to this. Slate has been running a series of in-depth podcasts on the people and discrete events of Watergate and it is delicious. It’s called “Slow Burn” and it’s fascinating enough that I coughed up the $35 for the Slate Plus Membership to get double the episodes. […]
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Trump + Lauer
There were a couple of different ways to get onto Season 2 contestant pipeline of The Apprentice. 1. Send in a video, 2. Wait in line at the Today Show and maybe participate in a quick competition, 3. Wait in line at open casting. My video was five minutes long and committed to VHS with […]
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Nobel Literacy
Each year the Nobel committee recognizes excellence and achievement in major cultural/scientific fields. Each year I discover how little I know about what is important in major cultural/scientific fields. Let’s see about 2017… The Nobel Prize in physiology or medicine: Jeffrey Hall, Michael Rosbash, and Michael Young for their discovery of “molecular mechanisms controlling the circadian rhythm.” […]
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Best of…holy crap that sucked
I stumbled across “Best of Enemies” on Netflix. Love that recommendation engine. I’m decently familiar with both principals in this ABC ‘Hail Mary’ coverage of the 1968 presidential primary. William F Buckley, Jr and Gore Vidal were each incredible intellectuals with larger than life personalities and the 1968 election in the middle of Vietnam and […]