Articles 2026
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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: -
We'll choose an NSA life, on camera all the time
Imagine a constantly transparent life
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?
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A Hospital Room With a View
Bloomberg View, August 24, 2014
Hospitals are, by their nature, scary and depressing places. But they don’t have to be ugly as well -- and there’s ample evidence that aesthetics matter to patient health.
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Off to College? Avoid Herpes 101
Bloomberg View, August 15, 2014
20 tips for parents and students on how to stay healthy at college.
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Are Hipsters Ruining the South?
Bloomberg View, August 11, 2014
Should the Piedmont area of the Carolinas and Georgia have stayed a poor region of mill villages and farms? Should prosperity be a first-come-only-served condition? Do new houses represent prosperity in the Northeast but pollution in the South?
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Why Being a Part-Time Worker Is Miserable
Bloomberg View, July 29, 2014
If unreliable schedules are so burdensome, why don’t workers switch to jobs with better schedules but lower pay? Why don’t competitors offer such options?