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Stanford Summit: Is China a friend or foe?

Joe Schoendorf recently got to speak at Tsinghua University to discuss innovation. His talk here incorporates some of the same things he said to the students th…

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Stanford Summit

After a little treacherous time finding the physical location of the Summit this morning at Stanford University (note to AlwaysOn: please put specific location…

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Nice rats, nasty rats

From an article by Nicholas Wade in yesterday's Times: '{Mr. Albert} hopes to identify 200 sites along the genome at which the tame and ferocious rats…

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Pandora connects with listeners

I enjoyed attending Pandora's Town Hall meeting last night at Swig in SF. The event was sponsored/co-organized by AMP3. Being an early (and continuing) fan…

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Friends at work...

I recently had a chance to hit a few campuses and meet up with a few of the people I've enjoyed working with over the past year. A few weeks ago I met up w…

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Caricaturing your opponent’s stances

From a review entitled "Manic Progressives" by Tobin Harshaw in the New York Times Book Review: 'According to Lakoff, conservatives believe that…

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The myth of Evil

A recent article by Edward Rothstein in the New York Times discusses the book “Evil Incarnate: Rumors of Demonic Conspiracy and Satanic Abuse in History” by Dav…

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An eye for an eye

“Those of us who had welcomed Bush’s vision of democracy in the Middle East still believe in the promise of a free Iraq and a free Lebanon,” The Daily Star of L…

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He Hit Me First

Harvard Psychologist Daniel Gilbert, author of Stumbling on Happiness, has a great column in today's New York Times entitled "He Who Cast the First Sto…

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More HOPE than hack

HOPE (Hackers On Planet Earth) Number Six wrapped up Sunday in New York. The conference name dates back to the first meeting in 1994 and was in use by this cro…