Articles 2024
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Harvard Deserves Steve Ballmer's Millions
Bloomberg View, November 21, 2014
Excellence, as well as need, is worthy of support.
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Who Killed Wikipedia?
Pacific Standard, November/December 2014
A hardened corps of volunteer editors is the only force protecting Wikipedia. They might also be killing it. -
3-D Printers Are Cameras, Not Printers
Bloomberg View, October 31, 2014
Contrary to what the names suggest, a desktop 3-D printer today isn’t analogous to a 2-D desktop printer in the 1980s.
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How Candy Conquered Halloween
Bloomberg View, October 30, 2014
Q&A with Samira Kawash, author of Candy: A Century of Panic and Pleasure, discussing how candy became the Halloween treat and how the myth of the Halloween sadist helped big candy brands.
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Oscar de la Renta's Last Stand Against Slobs
Bloomberg View, October 21, 2014
Will the American fashion industry ever tolerate another Oscar de la Renta?
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Peter Thiel Is Wrong About the Future
Bloomberg View, October 08, 2014
The obstacle to greater technological ambitions isn't our idea of the future. It's how we think about the present and the past.
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Frat Boys, Drunken Girls and Paternalism
Bloomberg View, September 26, 2014
Given the mounting concern about sexual assault on college campuses, you might expect activists to welcome a fraternity adviser’s message that Greek houses should take positive steps to protect inebriated women from potential dangers. You’d be wrong
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Campus 'Diversity' Puts Religion on Probation
Bloomberg View, September 18, 2014
Faced with a conflict between its self-proclaimed commitments to diversity and "access," Cal State has passed a new rule that clearly favors the latter.
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We'll choose an NSA life, on camera all the time
USA Today, September 04, 2014
In the late 1990s, physicist and sci-fi author David Brin argued that tiny cameras were creating "the transparent society." The only question was who would control the recordings. Since then, debates over surveillance have mostly focused on government surveillance. But imagine a different future: -
A Vaccine Mystery Hits Older Americans
Bloomberg View, September 04, 2014
Only 20 percent of Americans over 60 have gotten shingles vaccines. Should you get one?