Results for “Thinking Machines”

…owards lessons for influencing the space and the behavior within it today. In addition to offering some frameworks for thinking about Internet architecture and policy, and the curious open and generative nature of the phenomenon, we will delve into the net as a contingently glob...

…he first internationally recognized public intellectual whose recognition is based on the advocacy of empirically based thinking about language, mind, and human nature. “Just as Darwin made it possible for a thoughtful observer of the natural world to do without creationism, ” h...

…racter in the schools. It really means a lot to me, ail financial help aside, Jeffrey, that you are rooting for me and thinking about me. You push back a lot (as Larry does), and it’s always annoying but | always learn. With abundant gratitude, Lisa Elisa New Powell M. Cabot...

… the legitimate needs of national security and crime prevention. I coined the term “The Preventive State” and have been thinking, teaching and writing about its increasing dangers for half a century. I believe I was the first academic to focus on this problem in a systematic way....

…able, we might be able to pursue something more intense. By the time we had the conversation, he said he'd already been thinking similar thoughts. That he didn't want to distract me from something that could be beautiful. HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_018621

…ome not-need-to-know-about specific alteration(s) in a system’s internal physical properties. lf one allows some loose thinking about heat-induced increases in the Statistical randomness of molecular motion in the above reservoir that is associated with the loss of useable energ...

…ich. During his 1956 presidential campaign, a woman called out to Adlai Stevenson: "Senator, you have the vote of every thinking person!" Stevenson called back: "That's not enough, madam, we need a majority!" Truer words were never spoken. Obama could get away with saying that "R...

…ce, and national-security aide Samantha Power, whose Pulitzer Prize—winning book on genocide was influential in Obama’s thinking—drove the debate. “The idea that the girls pushed the boys into war is ludicrous,” says Anne-Marie Slaughter, who until recently served as director of...

…f, but will be working to erode that strategic edge in the future. Faced with these realities, there is a need for new thinking and innovative conceptualizations of surges into Centcom's area of responsibility. Theater campaign planners will have to think about contingencies in...

… change. She could acknowledge that she understands that people want change, and ask for a clear majority in the senate thinking abou that instead of presidential elections. Then if she does bad in 4 years she is out, but she could make the public understand that senate is key to...

…xert self-control in another. For example, if you ask subjects to avoid laughing while watching a comedy routine, avoid thinking about a white bear, or avoid eating chocolates now to have radishes later, these same subjects will squeeze a hand grip for a shorter period of time th...

…organized like a filing cabinet 12 quantum effects 50, 283 quick tour 108 scanners 46 stroke damage 12 super-Turing 294 thinking 117 visual agnosia 12 brain damage 97 brainstorming 298 Branson, Richard 24 Bricklin, Dan 237 bridge 134 British General Strike 211 Britten, Benjamin 3...

beginning I kept having this nagging thought: what is so bad about getting better from a placebo?” That kind of thinking, still hard for most doctors to accept, was heretical in 1990, when Kaptchuk arrived at Har- vard. “People kept saying, ‘Oh, this is just the placebo effect”...

…iends or Sex and the City, but I know the feeling. Personally, I'm more of a novel girl. The other day, I found myself thinking of my long- ago roommate and her thoughts on arranged marriage while I read Monica Ali's beautiful book Brick Lane. Monica Ali is an immigrant to the U...

…ook an interest in evolutionary biology. My friend Alan Rogers, a population geneticist | didn’t know all the time, was thinking in the same direction. His two published papers on this are in my appendix. Neither of us knew about Petty’s priority. The idea would have been a sti...