But a series of accidents, in Israel’s life and in mine, would soon point me in a dramatically different direction. The first became known as the Rotem Crisis, and it delivered a jolting reminder of Israel’s vulnerability to a surprise attack from neighboring Arab states. Militar...
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actions that imply particular timing patterns such as synchrony or rhythmic turn taking such as applauding in unison or the ‘wave’ that is produced by thousands of individual sports fans in a stadium. A model to explain such synchronized behavior is proposed in terms of the neura...
168 9 General Intelligence in the Everyday Human World 9.4.2 Events, Processes and Causality Specific aspects of naive physics related to temporality and causality are: 1. Distinguishing roughly-subjectively-instantaneous events from extended processes Identifying beginnings,...
Because what else would make a periodic signal? It turned out to be a rotating neutron star. One criterion to apply to a potentially purposeful phenomenon is whether it’s minimal in achieving a purpose. But does that mean that it was built for the purpose? The ball rolls down th...
June 2014, I was asked to articulate the vision at the first Belt and Road forum in Urumai, Northwest China's Xinjiang Uygur autonomous region. I described five categories: history, culture, trade, mutual development and peaceful development. The second forum was in Quanzhou, So...
xii Are the Androids Dreaming Yet? decision was already made. As Daniel Dennett says, “You have no free will. Get over it!” They say I am effectively an avatar in some giant cosmic computer game, going about my business in an entirely predefined way. I do not agree! If they are...
audible disbelief (everybody makes their own particular odd noise). Press accounts, seldom supplying new information, ever recycle and repeat the mysterious (and monstrous) billionaire mythology, with brief glimpses of him stepping out of the house (the same photos endlessly repu...
No. Copy: Recipient: Private Placement Memorandum Dated September 27, 2006 CONFIDENTIAL $1,000,000,000 KNOWLEDGE UNIVERSE EDUCATION L.P. KUE Management Inc. Investment Units consisting of Common Limited Partner Units of Knowledge Universe Education LP and Class A Ordinary Sh...
Alex Flachsbart gives a presentation on opportunity zones in Athens, Alabama. Photographer: Nicole Craine/Bloomberg When he read about opportunity zones in a 2017 draft of the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act, his mind reeled. Here was an uncapped subsidy far more flexible than anything he...
each, they’d put the name of the military unit to be called up in an emergency. We'd been allocated Lod Airport, because our base was just 15 minutes away. Still, as I accompanied the engineer back to the control tower, I tried to work out in my mind whether we could plan, prepar...
88 transitioned from an authoritarian state to a democracy, leading to new calls from the island and from some of its immigrants in the United States for an independent Taiwan. Seeking to capitalize on the ever-larger number of mainlanders in the United States and to battle the...
MAKING THE INVISIBLE VISIBLE: ART MEETS AI Hans Ulrich Obrist Hans Ulrich Obrist is artistic director of the Serpentine Gallery, London, and the author of Ways of Curating and Lives of the Artists, Lives of the Architects. In the Introduction to the second edition of his book U...
NAUTILUS EDUCATION | BETA PRODUCT avuncular and black-haired. His interests are broad: He spends his spare time writing and reading history, and has authored books on conflict in the Middle East and the role of Christian missionaries in China. A lifetime in fuels chemistry left...
One of the captured Golani soldiers was a 19-year-old named Uri Ilan, the son of a member of the Israeli Knesset whom Ben-Gurion and the whole of the government knew well. The soldiers’ captivity dragged on until they were finally returned to Israel in March 1956. By then, howeve...
instrument to undermine the investigation. According to present and former White House advisors, the President's recent spates of pardons are in part his way of taunting the Special Counsel. The White House, according to these sources, is aware that the Special Counsel has concl...