Humans are hard-wired to notice threats, weakness and fear. Negative news and emotions are contagious – they stick to us like Velcro. So here’s to an end of negative journalism and false news. Here’s to an end of news that harms our psyche and wellbeing; here’s to some good news – courtesy of journalist Charles Groenhuijsen (thanks to Iain Abercrombie, top man, loyal friend, All Black who sent me this video).
Florida Teenager Is Charged as ‘Mastermind’ of Twitter Hack NYT. Wait ’til they get all their college curricula digitally on Zoom….
Tech Wet Noodle Lashing
Five takeaways as panel grills tech CEOsThe Hill
Zuckerberg Goes Off-Script, Blasts Apple and Google in TestimonyBloomberg
How 5G is different – explained without jargon
5G has hit the headlines through the banning of Huawei’s 5G network technology in several countries. But what is 5G? And how is it different from what we have already? Continue reading
The Tax Law Review has published a new issue (Vol. 72, No. 1 (Fall 2018)):
Ariel Jurow Kleiman, (San Diego), Low-End Regressivity, 72 Tax L. Rev. 1 (2018)
- Jacob Goldin (Stanford), Tax Benefit Complexity and Take-Up: Lessons From the Earned Income-Tax Credit, 72 Tax L. Rev. 59 (2018) (reviewed by Kathleen DeLaney Thomas (North Carolina) and Ari Glogower (Ohio State))
- Eric M. Zolt (UCLA), Tax Treaties and Developing Countries, 72 Tax L. Rev. 111 (2018)
- “Doctoral students’ prodigious intelligence consigns them to a life of ‘purgatory’ as they pursue largely unattainable dream jobs and reject more realistic careers as failure” — many young academics are “victims of their own ‘above the data’ brains”, according to a study of “quit lit”
$1.45 Million Grant Won for Project on Philosophy of Science and Theology
Meghan Page, assistant professor of philosophy at Loyola University Maryland has won a grant of $1,455,601 to support her project, “Building Foundations in Science-Engaged Theology: Insights from Philosophy of Science”. (more…)
Isaiah Berlin, by Joshua Cherniss and Henry Hardy
The Force of Non-Violence by Judith Butler, reviewed by Mark Trecka at the Los Angeles Review of Books and by Faisal Devji at the Los Angeles Review of Books
Philosopher of the Heart: The Restless Life of Søren Kierkegaard by Clare Carlisle, reviewed by Justin Taylor at Bookforum and by Morten Høi Jensen at The American Interest.
The Knowledge Machine: How Irrationality Created Modern Science by Michael Strevens, reviewed at Publisher’s
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WHY CLARITY MATTERS: The officer had ‘misinterpreted’ a doctor’s report on the flu tests. |
