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The end of humans
If anything represents the new new thing in our technological age, it's the arena of artificial intelligence. From the factory floor to the glitter…
9 years, 10 months ago
How to deal with conflict all around us
Look around us. Conflict is everywhere. In our culture, certainly in our politics, in the broader world and in our interactions with institutions. …
9 years, 11 months ago
Finance vs. American Business
Recently I had a conversation with a Professor at UC Berkeley about the subject of Power. In the course of the conversation he referred to what he …
9 years, 11 months ago
Power...it’s not what it used to be.
Whether we want to believe it or not, every relationship we have...with a friend, a spouse, a child or co-workers, has a power dynamic as a part of …
9 years, 11 months ago
The Magnificent, Maddening, Mysterious World of Transportation
We throw around the word globalization without really thinking about all of its impacts. The instant and free flow of goods around the corner and a…
9 years, 11 months ago
Susan Cain and The Secret Strengths of Introverts
We live in a world of bombast and noise. Sometimes it seems the volume is turned up full blast, all the time. A quick look at our Presidential cam…
9 years, 11 months ago
A Surfing Life as Art
The poet William Blake talked about art as “seeing the world in a grain of sand.” I suppose that what he also meant was the ability to move in so ti…
9 years, 11 months ago
Are Riots and Insurrection on the Horizon?
Not since the 1960’s have we lived in a time of more public anger. Today, issues of race, economic disparity, power imbalance and distrust of trad…
9 years, 11 months ago
Why Physics Matters! - Part II
A Scottish writer, back in 1915, coined the phrase “think globally, but act locally.” While it was about grassroots movements, it could just as eas…
9 years, 11 months ago
Why Physics Matters!
For better or worse, particularly for those of us here in the Bay Area, we have come to think of science in rather utilitarian terms. A better phon…
9 years, 11 months ago