Throughout Asimov’s stories, he poses questions of the kinds of rights robots, artificial intelligence so advanced it has developed a sense of self, should have. Should a robot be able to choose its employment? Should it be able to
This week I sat down with award winning South African playwright, Amy Jephta. From: Capetown, South Africa Currently live: Capetown Earliest memory: A trip with my family on holiday to Geoffrey’s Bay Languages spoken: English, Afrikaans “What exactly is Afrikaans?” It’s a derivative of Dutch. It’s a colonial language brought over by settlers. If you’ve […]
So where did we leave off? Oh right… The abuse of religion. What do I mean by the abuse of religion? The ways in which people use religion to achieve specific political goals that come from a place of selfishness, rather than the seeming selflessness that can come with religion. This world here – he, […]
The Star Wars Battlefront Reboot is coming sometime in the next year and it’s going to be developed by DICE !!!! Read on to find out why this game is going to be sick!!
Okay! So I promised a recipe with kale and quinoa in it so here it is! This is a recipe I found on Food52, which is a great site with recipes and cooking tips and just all things food. This is a kale and quinoa pilaf, which is rice that is usually cooked with seasoned broth. […]
I think most people learn math backwards. For most of my life, I had the impression that math is a neat package of rules. A teacher would present a rule, and I would memorize the rule and apply it to a set of problems.
In this post, I’m going to do math in the other direction.
Now that I am officially 21, I can freely discuss the topic of alcohol without fear of incriminating myself on the World Wide Web. In other countries, the legal drinking age is well below 21; in Norway, it is only 16! Both despite and because of the fact that high school and college students blatantly […]
If I mention poetry, your mind probably goes to Shakespeare, Walt Whitman, and Maya Angelou. You probably think of poetry as love sonnets or lengthy descriptions of nature or metaphor-loaded, heartfelt confessions. But have you ever thought of poetry as a form of activism? Poetry, like all writing forms, uses words to communicate […]
Coaches, scouts, managers and media are getting ready to head to Indianapolis this weekend for the NFL Scouting Combine. Over 300 players entering into the 2015 NFL Draft will be ready to showcase their athleticism for the evaluators. From 40-yard dash times to body measurements, the players will be scrutinized. No matter what, things will […]
