Category: World
Mariana Mazzucato: A New Capitalism
From an article the in the New York Times November, 27, 2020 An ‘Electrifying’ Economist’s Guide to the Recovery “Ostensibly, her mission is to reimagine…
James Corden Learns about White Privilege
James Corden has a new segment on the Late Late Show, and one night this week, this was the third thing. Share This:
Will We Come Back to Football When This All Ends?
From Rory Smith’s Newsletter March 20, 2020 “Routines switch, interests wane. Perhaps, as more of the world enters lockdown, other activities will not be available,…
Origins of the Name Jamaica Plain
We are now living in JP (Jamaica Plain) a neighbourhood of Boston. Here is how it got its name: In the late 17th century, the…
Poverty – An American Shame
As AI and other developments lead us to talk about what happens when work disappears, another debate that predates this one, is the continuing high…
The Hacking of America – Jill Lepore –
Given all the empty positive talk that we are fed on a daily basis, and given all the lies and generalizations, it seems like the…
Scott Adams – Predicting Trump
Alex Beam in the Boston Globe today, highlighted Scott Adams’ (the creator of Dilbert) prediction in in his blog August 2015 that the “Clown Genius,”…
Seven Aspects of Happiness
From my friend, Dmitry Zinoviev at Suffolk Univeristy, “Seven aspects of happiness.” Co-occurrences of subject tags in 1,350 academic articles about happiness, published since 1970 (tags…
