Hand of the Market- shape current economic imbalances. And how politics and democracy will be required to change them. For the wealthy to compare tax increases to the rise of the Nazis suggests things have gone way off track in the USA. Social Responsibility and not just Noblesse Oblige are required. Read The Great Divide in the NYT http://nyti.ms/1qRBiks
Sunday, June 29, 2014
Inequality Isn't Inevitable
"We are not embracing a politics of envy if we are reversing a politics of greed":Economist Joseph E. Stiglitz on how politics - and not the magical
Monday, June 23, 2014
Alan Turing: June 23, 1914 - June 7, 1954
Alan Mathison Turing, OBE, FRS (23 June 1912 – 7 June 1954) was a British mathematician, logician, cryptanalyst, philosopher, computer scientist, mathematical biologist, and marathon and ultra distance runner. He was highly influential in the development ofcomputer science, providing a formalisation of the concepts of "algorithm" and "computation" with theTuring machine, which can be considered a model of a general purpose computer. Turing is widely considered as the "Father of Theoretical Computer Science andArtificial Intelligence.
Sunday, June 22, 2014
Baptism by Fire: Touch the Wall and Touch the Heart
N.R. Kleinfield's NYT cover story on FDNY "proby" Jordan Sullivan is deeply felt and Pulitzer worthy. A must read in today's Times. http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2014/06/22/nyregion/rookie-new-york-firefighter-faces-first-test.html
Friday, June 20, 2014
When Drones Fall....
Over 400 drones have crashed since 2001, many internationally at scenes of various US l'aventurra, but also in the US, according to Federal military records
"Quantam" Leap of Number of Refugees Worldwide: NY Times
The NY Times reports "We are not facing an increasing trend, we are really facing a quantum leap,” in the number of refugees worldwide, the head of the UN refugee agency told reporters in Geneva, noting that close to 11 million people were newly displaced in 2013. Half the world’s population of displaced people are children, he added, the highest level in a decade. NY Times reports that the number of people displaced by violent conflict hit the highest level since World War II at the end of 2013, the head of the United Nations refugee agency, António Guterres, said in a report released on Friday, warning that “peace is dangerously in deficit.”
"Pushed up dramatically by the war in Syria, the total number of people displaced by violence reached more than 51 million at the end of 2013, according to the agency’s “Global Trends” report for the year. This included 33.3 million people who fled violence but remained in their own country and 16.7 million refugees who fled to neighboring countries, it said.
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Thursday, June 19, 2014
The Freeway to Mars
Tesla and SpaceX founder Elon Musk wants to put humans on Mars and bring them back home to Earth within 10 - 12 years - that's decades BEFORE NASA's own projections. High tech and transportation all fit into Musk's pursuit of interplanetary travel. Space is indeed The Place. Article here http://www.extremetech.com/extreme/184640-spacex-says-it-will-put-humans-on-mars-by-2026-almost-10-years-ahead-of-nasa?wpisrc=nl%5fswbd
Wednesday, June 4, 2014
Income Inequality: The Topic for Our Time
On Monday, more than 10,000 MoveOn members across the country gathered online to watch Senator Elizabeth Warren and acclaimed economist Thomas Piketty discuss income inequality.
If you missed it or want to watch it again, check out the replay here—along with Sen. Warren and Dr. Piketty's shout-out to MoveOn members and Sen. Warren's special message at the end to MoveOn members.
Dr Thomas Piketty and US Senator Elizabeth Warren