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…is used in our analysis. Where multiple listings of a particular invention appear, the year retained in the list is the one reported in the main Wikipedia article for the invention. (e.g. "Microwave Oven" is listed in 1945 and 1946; the main article lists 1945 as the year of inve...

one but well-known satirist Paul Krassner—who may have coined the phrase ‘Twinkie defense’'—played up that angle. His trial stories appeared in the San Francisco Bay Guardian.” 6. Twitter is an interesting phenomenon. It’ s perfect for those folks with a short attention span, an...

Remembering Pubic Hair Okay, call me old-fashioned, but | still like pubic hair. Internet porn sites now present several choices--completely shaved, vertical landing strips that look like exclamation points, heart shaped, the Charlie Chaplin with just a little patch above the cl...

…ainst his will, is to prevent harm to others.” Mill’s irreducible refutation of tyranny leads him to—I have always felt—one of the most moving passages in literature, in which he extols the moral virtues of Marcus Aurelius, only to register the Roman’s supreme flaw. Mill writes:...

2017: a good year for domestic demand Policy tailwinds are only one pillar of our call for Japan’s outperformance in 2017. We also believe the stars are aligning for an organic improvement in domestic demand, which would support the current recovery: the economy is firing on all...

…ed to Chinese sovereignty, but instead handed them to Japan. China exploded with anti- American, nationalist sentiment. One of the eventual consequences was the establishment of the Chinese Communist Party, which for the last 70 years has ruled the country. Thus, Mr. Trump has ha...

…d "How China's Leaders Think," recalled Xi's previous trip to California as president and to Iowa as vice president as "one of the best images as for China." (The photo shows Robert Lawrence Kuhn introducing "Xi Jinping: The Governance of China" at BookExpoAmerica in New York on...

…an) in the White House, whether or not those categories grade into a continuum. What might be the remedy? To start, someone should get the word out. It isn’t about partisanship. The far left, with its ancient forbears such as Marius or Peisistratos, has shown equal menace or wor...

…nnual BICA (Biologically Inspired Cognitive Architectures) AAAT Symposium, and the international AGI conference series (one in 2006, and annual since 2008). And, even more exciting, as reviewed in Chapter 4, there are a number of contemporary projects focused directly and explici...

…y awesome sex-positive film series was Sex Positive, a fascinating documentary about the history of safer sex. I'll be honest: I was psyched about Sex Positive from day one, long before I'd even seen it. It was the first film I chose for my film list. In fact, the whole idea for...

…emane. They both tried to explain inexplicable feelings of new energy, the unseen hand of spiritual guidance and peace. One told me that the wind of the Holy Ghost had taken him to the front of the pulpit, tearfully, thankfully, on his knees, to accept Jesus as his personal Savio...

4.2.12 WC: 191694 Expressions that deliberately disrupt a speaker with whom one disagrees The Bruce Franklin case also included this alleged exception to the First Amendment—namely, that although there is a constitutional right to heckle speakers (at least in some context), the...

…hreaten a new fascism must be weighed against the vigor of the liberal ideas, institutions, and norms that Wiener championed throughout the book. The flaw in today’s dystopian prophecies is that they disregard the existence of these norms and institutions, or drastically underest...

…n gold. As Bill reported yesterday, the billionaire speculator cut his firm’s investments in U.S. stocks by more than one-third. Soros has also disclosed a new stake in the world’s biggest gold miner, Barrick Gold (ABX). Soros Fund Management, his investment vehicle, bought...

…ing the groundwork for the interactive motion graphics that are taken for granted on the web today. He has exhibited in one-man shows in London, New York and Paris. His work is in the permanent collections of the Museum of Modern Art, the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art and t...