Articles 2024
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Hollywood Gives Its Black Geek a Promotion
Bloomberg View, October 21, 2015
Hollywood loves to show black geeks, as long as they don't have backstories or personal lives. Malcolm Arakanbe to protagonist of the delightful teen movie "Dope," is not that kind of geek.
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Don't Stop Kids from Playing Rough
Bloomberg View, October 05, 2015
Prohibiting rough-and-tumble play doesn’t make recess safer or kids less apt to hurt others. To the contrary, bans deprive children of the very experiences they need to master peaceful social interactions.
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Princeton's School of Hard Knocks
Bloomberg View, September 02, 2015
Every January a great team loses the Super Bowl. Every April three of the Final Four go down. And every September, extraordinary students arrive at highly selective universities only to discover that one out of every two really will wind up in the bottom half of the freshman class--and one out of every five in the bottom quintile.
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Big Data Builds a Better "Help Wanted" Ad
Bloomberg View, August 20, 2015
Using an enormous and continually updated database of job postings and results, Textio, a Seattle-based startup, applies machine learning and natural language processing techniques to see what works -- and what doesn’t -- in job ads, whether for candidates in general, specific industries, or male or female job seekers. The results provide a fascinating peek into contemporary business.
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Robots Won't Rule the Checkout Lane
Bloomberg View, August 10, 2015
To see why robots aren't going to wipe out everyone's job anytime soon, look no further than the annoyed and bewildered customers confronting store self-checkout units squawking, "Unexpected item in bagging area" and "Help is on the way."
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Big Data Knows You Like Losers
Bloomberg View, July 29, 2015
Some customers are "harbingers of failure," disproportionately drawn to new products destined to fail.
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Greece's Problems Extend to the Cloud
Bloomberg View, July 02, 2015
Silicon Valley chips in to keep Greek startups online.
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How to See Less of Florence
Bloomberg View, June 23, 2015
Thanks to the strong dollar, larger than usual hordes of American tourists are thronging to European destinations. If you're going to Florence, here are some tips for keeping your sanity -- and discovering some hidden pleasures -- amid the madding crowds.
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Call Charleston Evil By Its Name
Bloomberg View, June 19, 2015
A (black) church in Charleston, a (kosher) supermarket in Paris: what the praiseworthy rhetoric of common humanity leaves out
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Harvard Gets Its Geek On
Bloomberg View, June 18, 2015
Harvard realizes that a first-rate university needs a first-rate engineering school.