Most of my students here at Stevens were born after the U.S. war in Afghanistan was already under way. President Joe Biden finally said, Enough!
Posts published by “John Horgan”
Last December, I was feeling glum, and so was almost everyone I know. I thought, I should get a bigshot intellectual to give the Stevens community a pep talk, but who?
When I started writing about science decades ago, artificial intelligence was ascendant. IEEE Spectrum, the technology magazine for which I worked, produced a special issue on how AI would transform the world.
My girlfriend, who has taken it upon herself to keep me abreast of cool culture, has gotten me hooked on the hit YouTube show “TwinsthenewTrend,” also called “First Time Hearing.”
A friend recently urged me to watch The Social Dilemma, a documentary on Netflix. It sounded boring — another expose of the perils of social media.
Like many teachers, I’ve agonized over what to tell my students about the crises convulsing us lately, the pandemic and U.S.
This morning I clicked a Zoom link and joined an online mindfulness session led by my friend and Stevens colleague Lindsey Swindall.
Today an email chain I’m on, where contributors swap whacky physics theories, veered into whacky political theories. Chinese communists, one physicist insisted, are orchestrating protests that have been roiling U.S.
Read Professor Horgan's first Scientific Curmudgeon column of the semester.