Dear Dr. ESP, Here you go again. A fourth post about Nikki Haley. I’m beginning to think you have an unnatural obsession with the former governor. What’s the deal? ~Same Imaginary Reader Dear Imaginary, my interest in Haley is less about her as a presidential candidate and more about how she constantly reminds me how … Read more
The Middle East is not the only place subject to proportionate responses to attacks. The following headline appeared in this morning’s edition of the New York Times. Wife of Investor Who Pushed for Harvard President’s Exit Accused of Plagiarism Without looking into the merits of the charge, the first thing that came to mind was a … Read more
On December 15, Dictionary.com selected “hallucinate” as its Word of the Year 2023. It is not the word I would have chosen, even considering their focus on hallucination’s relevance to artificial intelligence. Below is the official announcement. The definition strikes me as an inaccurate description of both “hallucinating” and “artificial intelligence.” If they intended to … Read more
On Tuesday, New York Representative Elise Stefanik asked the presidents of Harvard, MIT and the University of Pennsylvania a simple question. “…does calling for the genocide of Jews violate (your university’s) code of conduct or rules regarding bullying and harassment? Yes or no?” There are only two possible answers. #1: Of course it does. #2: … Read more
Israeli officials obtained Hamas’s battle plan for the Oct. 7 terrorist attack more than a year before it happened, documents, emails and interviews show. But Israeli military and intelligence officials dismissed the plan as aspirational, considering it too difficult for Hamas to carry out. Underpinning all these failures was a single, fatally inaccurate belief that … Read more