Results for “Great Point Partners”

…, a proprietary program that engages young children in singing, dancing and creative movement while introducing them to great works of music from around the world. k12’s curriculum and assessment are delivered, in part, through a series of proprietary course modules. k12 deliver...

…t a dialectical analysis of history causes China to conclude that the forces of reaction facing the US and the West are greater. Just as the contradictions operating domestically within the US and the West (in their particular political systems) are greater as well. Which in turn...

…omain of self-reproducing machines—to the power and versatility of neurons and their synapses. This could become a new, great frontier of research. Here too, biology might point the way, as we come to understand biological development well enough to imitate its essence. Altogeth...

…g a 20-year-jail sentence for bilking investors in Towers Financial out of $450 million. The piece alluded to Epstein's great friendship with Maxwell, and how she introduced him to young women with whom he had sexual relationships. But, in the end, the story didn't really go ther...

…of the methodology is to have people with very different views explore different possible future scenarios together, in great detail — in cognitive psychology terms, a collective generation of hypothetical episodic knowledge. This has multiple benefits, including e emotional bon...

… a 20-year-jail sentence for bilking investors in Towers Financial out of $450 million. The piece alluded to Epstein’s great friendship with Maxwell, and how she introduced him to young women with whom he had sexual relationships. But, in the end, the story didn’t really go ther...

…Michael Wolff (i wrote: Bannon's "nationalist-populist" platform is coherent, rational, and, apparently appealing to a great many people. I can't see why at this point he wouldn't want to use his world-stage stature to make an argument for it and to claim leadership of it. What...

…omain of self-reproducing machines—to the power and versatility of neurons and their synapses. This could become a new, great frontier of research. Here too, biology might point the way, as we come to understand biological development well enough to imitate its essence. Altogeth...

…owever, party leader Jarostaw Kaczynski, who holds a seat in the parliament but no formal government position, has much greater ambitions to refashion Poland along culturally conservative and politically illiberal lines. The media are a major target. The government quickly asser...

… email and other forms of electronic communication. Although there may have been times when officials could contemplate great matters of state at something approaching leisure, those days have been long gone. Even offices created expressly to explore policy options stretching bey...

… the Brazos. Season ticket sales skyrocketed. Games were now sold out. At the aging Floyd Casey Stadium, albeit home to great memories over a half century, we worked hard to fill the seats. The occasional sell-out would occur when, say, the Longhorns came to Waco and eagerly boug...

…g a 2o-year-jail sentence for bilking investors in Towers Financial out of $450 million. The piece alluded to Epstein's great friendship with Maxwell, and how she introduced him to young women with whom he had sexual relationships. But, in the end, the story didn't really go ther...

…w we process race. When Caucasian subjects view faces of Black as opposed to Caucasian people staring at them, there is greater activation in the amygdala. This racial difference disappears if subjects view photos of faces looking away or with eyes closed. It is the potentially t...

there is a constant structure with some activity going on inside it. When von Neumann’s abstract machine reproduced, it made a copy of itself in another region of the plane. Within the “machine” was a horizontal line of squares which acted as a finite linear tape, using a subset...

…lligent actor in the world, one which has levels of intelligence, self awareness, and volition that is perhaps somewhat greater than, but still comparable to humans and other animals. Ethical questions under this scenario are very similar to interhuman ethical considerations, wi...