The US and Canada (424 laureates) and Western Europe (507 laureates) together represent 931 and nearly 80% of the 1,174 country affiliations associated with Nobel laureates since 1901. When the 15 Nobel laureates from Australia and New Zealand are included, the share of Nobel Prizes awarded to laureates in Western countries (946) increases to 80.6%. Does that unequal distribution just 'feel wrong'?
Tory MP David Amess was stabbed to death in church by what is said is a British citizen of Somali origin. Can you wait for the discussion?
Apple has fired Janneke Parrish, a leader of the #AppleToo movement, amid a broad crackdown on leaks and worker organizing. Parrish, a program manager on Apple Maps, was terminated for deleting files off of her work devices during an internal investigation — an action Apple categorized as “non-compliance,” according to people familiar with the situation. It’s the second time in recent months that an employee has been terminated after speaking out about Apple’s company culture.
Are companies required to e complicit in their own destruction?
Is telling your supporters not to vote in crucial times like these egocentric, idiotic or just cynical?
For the 12th year in a row, women earned a majority of doctoral degrees awarded at US universities in 2020. For every 100 men earning a doctoral degree last year, there were more than 113 female graduates. That's good, right?
If you, as a leader, feel your citizens can't get along without you do you, with your knowledge of your own limits, lose respect for them?
Latin America, Asia, Africa, and the Middle East together account for only 132 Nobel Prizes by country in total (11.2% of the 1,174 total), even though those areas together represent about 85% of the world’s population. Does that unequal distribution just 'feel wrong'?
The table above shows the top ten research affiliations of Nobel laureates at the time of the announcement. Does that unequal distribution just 'feel wrong'?
Will “diversity, inclusion, and equity (DIE)” make things better?
Half of Cuba's under-23 baseball team has defected. Why?
C. S. Lewis wrote that “[t]he serious magical endeavor and the serious scientific endeavor are twins.” Is that the reason that scientists are so revered now?
In the 16-to-24 age bracket, the proportion of Brits who want to convert Ronnie Scott’s jazz club in London’s Soho into a community lending library, even after Covid is a distant memory, is now a staggering 40 percent. What could this possibly mean?
The American League batting champion bats seventh for the Astros. The best hitter since May bats sixth. Sixth? Seventh?
E.O. Wilson on socialism and communism: "Great idea. Wrong species."
--Is that a terrific line or what?
More than a dozen prominent cybersecurity experts on Thursday criticized plans by Apple and the European Union to monitor people’s phones for illicit material, calling the efforts ineffective and dangerous strategies that would embolden government surveillance. But aren't their intensions good?
Pelosi gave an interview furious that the Press was not doing a better job selling her spending plans. Did you know that was the Press's job?
Does Heraldo Rivera get residuals for the Burger King mascot?
Does the homogenizing of culture through common media and cancel-culture lead to less creativity?
The government has turned upon Moderna, the company that saved their bacon in the Covid pandemic, excoriating them for not sending their vaccine to poor countries. The Left also wants them to give their intellectual property with the world, saving the Chinese the cost and trouble of espionage. These people are on our side, right?
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