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…nications intelligence allowed the CIA (and other U.S. intelli- gence services) to test and verify the reports of their human sources in foreign countries. Moreover, because of the immense amount of foreign data that the NSA vacuumed in through its global sensors, it provided the...

…ith Brunei's sultan, Hassanal Bolkiah .....who was charged with holding a deeply-religious Christian beauty queen as a "human chattel." Far from being embarrassed by the ruler's tawdry reputation, moreover, records for Bill's nonprofit foundation reveal that Brunei made a donatio...

…ng, he will offer an apology and start over. In his own circle, he is often described by clients as a genius. To lesser human beings, his thoughts seem to run like a pinball through the random light and sound of an arcade game, with a purpose difficult to recognize. “I’m a true a...

… first week or two, we assumed its ferocity and scale would subside. Our immediate aim was to contain it, and limit the human cost on both sides. Yet when Dan and I began visiting units on the front line of this new conflict, we realized that if it kept escalating, we’d have to f...

…pressed in choices. Capital is foreseen satisfactions discounted by whatever our taste for impatience is. Most of it is human capital leaving little market record beyond its rental cost in pay. Logic is about all we have left. But the story cannot end in thin air. Few would pay...

…ecent Posts ° Popular Posts I believe this is biology's century. I've covered science and medicine for Forbes from the Human Genome Project through Vioxx to the blossoming DNA technology changing the world today. Email me, follow me on Twitter, circle me onGoogle Plus, or subscr...

…d by lists and post-it notes full of process. Where is the balance to be struck? In my view ‘process’ is there to help humans with the tasks we find naturally difficult. Humans, as we know, are dreadful at remembering lists of symbolic information. Give a human ten numbers to me...

94 Are the Androids Dreaming Yet? humans are naturally hierarchical — not unlike packs of dogs or beached walruses. Humor allows us to test the response of others to statements, which might otherwise be taken the wrong way. Something said in a ‘jokey’ tone of voice may not gener...

…e last year claiming he and SARC had been absolved. “It saddens me to see the waste of time, money and talent, and the human and financial capital that these conspirators perpetrated in multiple courts and plain good old fashion lies to continue their charade for years,’ Walsh s...

…sts there will continue, with the U.S. bearing partial responsibility. The White House’s uncertainty can be measured in human lives. The Syrian protesters are right in not pursuing their salvation in Washington, let alone Brussels, Paris, or London. This is not an American admin...

…iety of colors; at the low end of the frequency scale we see red, higher up blue and, at the top, violet. At this point human eyes give up and cannot see anything higher, so ultraviolet light is invisible to us. Bees, on the other hand, can see a long way into the ultraviolet spe...

…mpr Psychiatry, 51(2), 130-134; Bukholtz, J.W, & Meyer-Lindenberg, A. (2008). MAOA and the neurogenetic architecture of human aggression. Trends in neurosciences, 31(3), 120-129; Derringer, J., Krueger, R.F., Irons, D.E., & Iacono, W.G. (2010). Harsh discipline, childhood sexual...

…that someone can drive, drink, vote, kill, run for president, marry, and die as a penalty for crime, it has constrained human behavior based on a statistical evaluation of psychological capacity. In each case, our assignment of age-appropriateness indicates that we believe the pe...

… after the picture was taken, the ship exploded and caused what is still known as the largest non-nuclear explosion in human history. Over 5,000 people were injured and 468 died in this 1947 tragedy. #24 Soviet Soldiers Harassing A German Woman HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_020690

…s and psychologies and even the biochemistry of our brains. To be disconnected, in so many senses, hurts. And while the human twitch for freedom remains as alive as a protection for us all, Hayek's second safety catch is eroding. Networks of deep connection, speed and intelligenc...