2005 11
Could Computers Turn Text into Movies?
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Text is the technology of the past. There has to be a better way to communicate an idea than grouping a bunch of letters and words next to each other. It occurred to me that maybe it’s possible to attack one side of the problem, either just the writing side or just the reading side.
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2005 11
School? Or Education for the Routine of Adult Life?
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I’ve got 3 children in an English school in Madrid. I see what they’re studying, and while it’s a little better than what I studied at Nicolás Avellaneda in Buenos Aires, it’s not good enough. Sometimes when I help them with their homework, I think that education, just like food or medicine, should come with an expiration date.
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2005 5
Air Battles
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I was thinking about the animal world the other day and there are many different ways that animals attack each other.
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2005 29
What to do if Al Qaeda drops an Atomic Bomb in Manhattan
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The attacks of 9/11 reminded us of humans’ seemingly inexhaustible imagination and capacity to kill innocent lives. What was unthinkable one day, became reality the next. Today, in the back of everyone’s mind lies the irrepressible fear that one day, terrorists will orchestrate an attack that would make 9/11 look like a Saturday night brawl. What would happen if Al Qaeda dropped a nuclear warhead on Chicago or New York City and kill a million people? How would the US retaliate?
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2005 27
Personal Assistant
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I am looking for a Personal Assistant. Ideally a bright, bilingual college graduate taking a two year break between college and graduate school interested in spending time in Spain. This formula has worked for me in the past. Please send me your CV at .
Watching TV makes you smarter, argues Steven Johnson in this article in the New York Time Magazine.
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2005 24
Gay Hotel
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The other day I was giving a master class at Instituto de Empresa and after I was done, a student came over to me and told me that he wanted to start a gay hotel in Madrid and asked me if I thought it was a good idea.
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2005 21
6 Days a Week
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My father, a Harvard trained astrophysicist, who died in 1983 ,had many brilliant ideas. One of them was the six day week. The six day week is one of those simple, brilliant changes that we could institute in society, in order to gain four extra days of rest per month without causing any changes in GDP. How? By saving fixed assets namely schools, roads, offices, factories, clinics, etc.
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2005 20
New European Party
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Google ”Immigrant Party” and see what you get. You get ANTI-immigrant party.
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2005 20
Is Writing Dead?
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Text sucks. I use it, but I am very disenchanted by it.
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