
Could China be North Korea’s True Nuclear Target?
It looks like North Korea really has it in for the US. But what if the Dear Leader’s real target is China? Now that sounds

Are human writers becoming obsolete?
Before we knew better it was predicted that the Internet would make newspapers and magazines obsolete. But now we can see that most people who

A Third Way for AI: Cognitively-Augmented Animals?
Not everyone believes that AI is God’s gift to humans. Two noted gurus Stephen Hawking and Elon Musk beg to disagree. Musk is trying to

Does streaming music reduce productivity?
Well, whadya know? US worker productivity growth rose sluggishly in the last quarter (at 0.9%). So what? This is kind of boring stuff after my usual posts

Is love a physical force-field?
Did you hear about the recent wedding of two people in their nineties (She’s 98. He’s 94. They Met at the Gym). Tells us that

Bitcoin meets behavioral finance – what happens next?
So now Bitcoin has split between two camps, the miners and the rest. That gives us a bit of insight into the psychodynamics of the Bitcoin