Google, we learn from Monday’s New York Times, has a secret lab in an undisclosed location in the Bay Area where it is developing robots. We don’t know what the Google-oids are working on there, but we do know that the company has developed and built a driverless car that has already traversed 100,000 miles […]
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Climate Control
As their ranks diminish, global warming skeptics target scientists
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Steve Jobs and the Chinese Wall
The former Apple CEO might have been an innovator, but there’s one thing he didn’t invent: exploiting foreign workers.
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Everything Is Culture
The environmental story of the day concerns a project started by a climate skeptic named Richard Muller, a physicist who was so convinced that actual climate scientists were distorting or misreading the data that he started his own project, called the Berkeley Earth Science Temperature project, to double-check them. Climate deniers were excited — at […]
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It’s an Ad World After All
Is it legal for a company to take out Internet ads on your name after you’ve filed a complaint against it? Apparently so.
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Whose Point of View?
If Wikipedia is where the masses go for information, then progressives should be there to help get the facts right.
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Reality Bites
The science-based community once was split between Democrats and Republicans — but not anymore.
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Darwin’s Truth, Jefferson’s Vision
When scientists on the left began attacking sociobiology, liberals nodded their heads. But take another look. The supposed contradiction between Darwinian reasoning and liberal political philosophy was based on a misunderstanding of both.
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State of the Debate: Dolly and Madison
The cloning debate has highlighted moral questions that are likely only to become even more difficult as biotechnology advances: What should be the line between permissible and impermissible genetic interventions? Is our bedrock belief in human equality about to break down?
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Will Libraries Survive?
Rumors of the death of the brick-and-mortar library have been greatly exaggerated. Yes, the digital age has transformed the nature of data storage. But the public library will be a chief agent in providing access to digital information.
