Dr. ESP 
Warning to Readers: This is a long one, but I hope you will find it worth the ride. It includes highlights of a 30-minute give and take with Microsoft’s AI engine Copilot. Deprogramming101 readers who also follow me on Facebook know that I have been using Microsoft Copilot to create political cartoons to add a … Read more
It has been a week since we woke up to the tragic news about Rob and Michelle Reiner. As if the loss of two caring and talented individuals was not enough, the cruelty of the nation’s supposed “role model” in response to this tragedy made my search for some meaning in an otherwise senseless act … Read more
Hooray for new mathNew-hoo-hoo math!It won’t do you a bit of good to review mathIt’s so simpleSo very simpleThat only a child can do it! Tom Lehrer/”New Math” (1965) If, like me, you were a fifth or sixth grader in the early 1960s, perhaps your math book was a typed, xeroxed manuscript of a proposed … Read more
The Dr. ESP “Quote of the Year Award” goes to FCC Chairman Brendan Carr for his much maligned threat of ABC if the network refused to take action against “Jimmy Kimmel Live” for the host exercising his First Amendment right to criticize, even mock, the president of the United States. In an effort to pressure … Read more
As part of my recent gig teaching “change management” at the Catholic University of the Sacred Heart in Milan, Italy (UNICATT), the second session focused on the importance of culture. Included was a teaching case which explored how Colby College in Waterville, Maine remained open during the COVID pandemic when most of its peer institutions … Read more