While reading through the many negative comments about India’s Mars mission a question arose in my mind:
While writing about Adam Gopnik’s New Yorker essay about JFK the other day, I found myself thinking about conspiracies. Middle-of-the-road types like the New Yorker pundit can’t be blamed for cherishing the status quo, it having been so good to…
A few months back I wrote a post here on medium titled Conferences are Broken. And I took it up on myself to fix them. What I didn’t realize is just how broken…
Twenty years ago, an article entitled Secrecy and Intelligence in a Free Society was written by the Center for the Study of Intelligence that explored the challenges…
Welcome to the “blog post” medium, is this the next best thing?
Captured my intentions, but how much does that matter? After all, I created one of the first…
We eat out a lot and have for years. Last night we witnessed it again, The Crouching Waiter. We were a little miffed, because he didn’t crouch at our table, but did everywhere else.
In our modern world, people look for the best product. Or the cheapest (I could have linked one of the many price compare sites here). Nobody cares about happiness. Do you?
In the IT world the competition is maybe bigger than anywhere else. Startups come and…
Вечером субботнего дня в ленте новостей я обнаружил сообщение от своего старого знакомого Дмитрия Чижевского . Сообщение выглядело так:“Ребят, спасибо всем за поддержку. Особенно Выходу и ЛГБТ-сети.Меня…
By Joe Bruns — In the September issue ofThe American Prospect, Monica Potts memorably tells the story of Crystal Wilson, of Cave City…