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The Happiness Code A new approach to self-improvement is taking off in Silicon Valley: cold, hard rationality. By JENNIFER KAHN JAN. 14, 2016 Last summer, three dozen people, mostly programmers in their 20s, gathered in a rented house in San Leandro...

Is Google Making Us Stupid? What the Internet is doing to our brains "Dave, stop. Stop, will you? Stop, Dave. Will you stop, Dave?” So the supercomputer HAL pleads with the implacable astronaut Dave Bowman in a famous and weirdly poignant scene...

Democracy, Liberalism, Militarism: Capitalist Vitalization In a previous article, I suggested the three-legged stool –surveillance, assassination, teleprompter –as basic elements of Obama’s presidency thus far, which, in creating a...

LOCAL CORRUPTION? Not to put too fine a point on this one, but draw your own conclusions from this set of facts: DA David Eyster worked in Duncan James’ law office before being elected DA. Daniel Camara, 25, was originally charged with assault...

PDF Version Whew. Wow. Holy shnikes. I’ve gotten maybe six hours’ sleep, total, in the past 72 hours. This was intentional (if wholly unplanned) — for reasons I will explain… First, let me apologize for the tidal wave of ideas and concepts I am about...