Earlier this year, I saw this article in The Atlantic from last October about how algorithmic bias is harmful to teens that I’ve spent some time thinking about (https://www.theatlantic.com/family/archive/2020/10/algorithmic-bias-especially-dangerous-teens/616793/) and was reflecting on the last paragraph: “Algorithms powerfully shape development; they are socializing an entire generation. And though United…

The F-35 Lightning II, the most expensive manned aircraft programme the US has ever produced with an expected lifetime cost of 1.3 trillion USD is back in the news for all the wrong reasons.[1] Early February 2021, Bloomberg reported that the software on the F-35 was so problematic that software…

A year ago, during a weekend when I was in a science communications workshop at Cornell, I spent my evening between the Saturday and Sunday instead writing my analysis as to why the presidential campaign of Senator Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) failed that I ended up sharing with several friends. A…

As my friends and family know, I’m a fan of film. I am probably more passionate about cinema than I am about most things. I own over a thousand titles, actually, that number is over 1300 (including television series, documentaries, etc). …

Recently, I was reading an article in the NY Times entitled “Tech Goliaths Act Like Davids”, which caused me to reflect on some of the articles about Big Tech over the last couple of years. The interesting thing to me, in the history of the biggest tech companies in America…

Eight years ago, this last weekend, in a Facebook post, I posted the following question that I’d been asked in a job interview: “How do you answer the question: If a red-shirt from Star Trek gets shot & hit by a Stormtrooper from Star Wars, does he die?” At the…

Sir Keir Starmer, former Director of Public Prosecutions (head of the Crown Prosecution Service that covers England & Wales, in other words, their senior public prosecutor) from 2008 to 2013, who was knighted for that service, and who had worked as a human rights attorney before that, current Member of…

With respect to a question that is on the minds of many high-achieving and/or status-oriented students growing up who seek to earn the “brass ring” that is admission into an Ivy League or other highly selective institution, especially during the season in which admissions or rejection letters (or emails more…