by Jeremy Gloff | Nov 16, 2014 | Politics & Law, Society & Culture
{Cross-published from the Jeremy Gloff Homepage} I got picked on a lot in high school. I am not angry or bitter towards my peers who relentlessly insulted me. I get it. I was different. They didn’t take the time to get to know me. It’s a social norm for one...
by Ken JP Stuczynski | Nov 6, 2014 | Philosophy & Ethics, Politics & Law, Psychology, Society & Culture
Anti-gun arguments can no longer be ignored. But before we tackle something so dear to red states and protected by an archaic parchment from a time before drone strikes, let’s use this same compassionate rationale to tackle a statistically greater, more...
by Ken JP Stuczynski | Nov 4, 2014 | Philosophy & Ethics, Politics & Law, Psychology, Society & Culture, Technology & Futurism
This TED Talk is a series of pointed assaults on the “[[Nothing to hide argument]]”, and declares that lack of privacy actually changes our behavior in fundamental ways. An excerpt: The people who are actually saying that are engaged in a very extreme act...
by Barry Fagin | Nov 3, 2014 | Business & Economics, Philosophy & Ethics, Politics & Law, Society & Culture
{Published in the Colorado Springs Gazette, February 13, 2014} According to the Wall Street Journal, Warren Buffett is over $12 billion richer than he was a year ago. Jeff Bezos (Amazon) and Mark Zuckerberg (Facebook) gained pretty close to that much. I think...
by Ken JP Stuczynski | Oct 28, 2014 | Politics & Law, Science & Pseudoscience, Society & Culture
A TED Talk by climate economist Nicholas Stern posits our environmental future as a technological and regulatory problem, and being merely a matter of good choices over bad. It inspired me to think and address the problem in a larger meta-context of global politics...
by Ken JP Stuczynski | Oct 28, 2014 | Philosophy & Ethics, Society & Culture
Vending machines for collectible Human DNA specimens? This somewhat bizarre TED Talk has more profound implications than it realizes, important unasked questions, ones the fill an unusual space between issues of privacy, choice, and patents. Do we own our own voice?...
