Global Problems

In addition to this being my first post (as opposed to responses to the posts of others), I would like to begin by publishing a series of thoughts on which I would like to follow up at a later date. There are many questions to which bright minds and inquisitive…

AI, huh.. sounds fascinating. And from this tone or sound, we assume its origin in some 80s or later, but the truth is it’s way older than you imagine. If we consider Frankenstein by Marry Shelley, well then the concept of AI dates back to 1818, as Frankenstein got everything…

I registered uniteserve.com when I was New Orleans, probably before hurricane Katrina happened. At that time, I thought it was a good domain to register. It meant something very important UNITE+SERVE. People often read it as unit serve. Sounds like name for people uniting to serve something. …

FAREWELL 2020–21 ACADEMIC YEAR It has been an incredibly active school year for KUGA despite the pandemic. As a team, we found new ways to come together, work together and share what we do with our community. From KUGA Talks and blog posts to team workshops and events and to the design thinking process…

And they want global faith communities to show up to make it happen. — It is not hard to find evidence of our failure to protect children. Last month another lawsuit was filed against Kanakuk Kamps former directer, Pete Newman, currently serving two life sentences with an additional thirty years in a Missouri state prison after pleading guilty to child sexual abuse. …

Reviews, Endorsements and Book Description Adrian Bejan is a J.A. Jones Distinguished Professor. He is quoted in the book but most importantly he has been writing papers about a very similar topic. In his book, ‘Freedom and Evolution’ and his Research Article, ‘Energy Theory of Periodic Economic Growth’ very similar…

Is saying you want to change the world a cliché? Maybe. But wanting to change the world is also a common reason people consider going back to school. And honestly, I’m one of those people. If graduate school is, at its core, a way to pivot — from one career…

from www.rationaloptimist.wordpress.com My daughter Elizabeth, 27, has worked for five years in the Mid-East for humanitarian organizations, currently for a consultancy much involved in Afghanistan. Wonderful, you might say. She herself is less sure — always engaging in critical self-scrutiny. There’s much literature criticizing the whole foreign aid and development…