GENDER EQUALITY
How is the world doing on gender equality? According to the World Economic Forum (WEF), the picture is mixed. The needle is moving in the …
LENAT
“Writer of common sense into computers” was the header of an obituary I read in The Economist this week for Douglas Lenat. I don’t generally …
RUSSIAN SPIES
I have tended to think that worrying about Russian spies was a remnant of the old Cold War. It has certainly faded from the news …
RICHARD DREYFUSS
We are sending badly educated people to Washington DC to form the government that is supposed to represent us in the American experiment of democracy. …
TOO MANY HATS
“Too many hats” sounds like an admonition of a person who takes on so many different roles that they perform all of them badly. Equally, …
SEA SPONGES IN ZANZIBAR
Sea Sponges in Zanzibar struck me as a story that should have wider circulation. It is, at the same time, heart-warming, topical, and an indication …
THE BULLET
The Bullet is, debatably, one of the world’s most enduring manufactured products. With that statement, you may well think I am talking about the projectile …
STRANGE CONSEQUENCES OF CLIMATE CHANGE
There are many implications and strange consequences of climate change that we haven’t even begun to contemplate yet, and this story of crocodiles and hippos …
WAR OVER WATER
I have written several blogs suggesting “war over water” will be the next world war. We seem to have almost daily examples in our news …
PUERTO RICO AND THE SUPREME COURT
Puerto Rico and the U.S. Supreme Court don’t interact very often, but an obscure case recently accepted by the Court could have significant consequences for …