Chapter Fourteen It began with an accident. On Tuesday, December 8, 1987, an Israeli tank transporter crashed into a minibus carrying Palestinians from the Jabalya refugee camp near the main crossing from Gaza into Israel. Four passengers were killed. By the time of the funeral...
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ANNALS OF SCIENCE THE POWER OF NOTHING Could studying the placebo effect change the way we think about medicine? BY MICHAEL SPECTER Re years, Ted Kaptchuk performed acupuncture at a tiny clinic in Cam- bridge, a few miles from his current office, at the Harvard Medical School...
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ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE AND THE FUTURE OF CIVILIZATION Stephen Wolfram Stephen Wolfram is a scientist, inventor, and the founder and CEO of Wolfram Research. He is the creator of the symbolic computation program Mathematica and its programming language, Wolfram Language, as well...
e This dream candidate would pledge to serve only four years and address all of the U.S.’s ticking time bombs like Social Security, Medicare, health care reform, climate change, money in politics, gerrymandering, and infrastructure investment in a single term. This one-and-done t...
And only then: “We must love each other, show affection for each other and unite together in condemnation of hatred, bigotry and violence... . We must rediscover the bonds of love and loyalty that bring us together as Americans... . Racism is evil. And those who cause violence in...
interconnectivity to humans for millennia. Just as computers have capacities and processes that are transduced through but extend far beyond the hardware of a single computer, the human brain has evolved to promote social and cultural capacities and processes that are transduced...
Navigating our presidential campaign was a piece of cake compared to understanding the nuances of the 2011 Oscar race for the most revered artistic honor in the world. This is how nine films fell into the big picture. Three premiered in Cannes mid-May, a distant nine months ag...
outcome that a special prosecutor delegated to find a crime would find one—likely many. Everybody became a potential agent of implicating others. Dominos would fall. Targets would flip. Paul Manafort, making a good living in international financial gray areas, his risk calculati...
purchase order. Our meetings were now no more than five minutes long. From this moment forward, resolve to keep those around you focused and avoid all meetings, whether in person or remote, that do not have clear objectives. It is possible to do this tactfully, but expect that s...
defensive dividend stocks to take advantage of the improving cyclical backdrop and rising bond yields. That meant our November screen included a high proportion of Financials. This somewhat remains the case but we note the addition of several industrial companies in our latest sc...
NAUTILUS EDUCATION cost as little as $2 per gallon, or about half the price gas currently goes for at local pumps, to produce at a full-sized facility, even though such an industrial plant would require a lot of capital to build. However, the machine Fang shows me is not run- n...
after a long and bitter internal debate, the president announced that he had decided to withdraw from the Paris Climate Agreement. For Bannon, it was a deeply satisfying slap in the face of liberal rectitude—Elon Musk and Bob Iger immediately resigned from Trump’s business counci...
“So basically, the Iranians are acting like the Israelis — they want peace, and they want to keep the land.” Other analysts, while conceding any progress would be slow, had somewhat more positive forecasts on the Syrian front. [Syria] is a tough one to happen quickly, but at le...