On Martin Luther King Day, I searched online for commentary by King on science and discovered his 1964 Nobel Peace Prize acceptance speech, in which he dwelled on the gap between our scientific and moral progress.
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Last Thanksgiving weekend was the strongest ever in online sales, with Americans spending just over $1 billion online on Thanksgiving Day, and $1.5 billion on Black Friday, according to Forrester Research.
For me, the introduction of Steam’s Exploration Sales marks the beginning of the end of the year. Video game fans of all kinds (save for Assassin’s Creed players) rejoiced in 2014 for the massive amount of great content.
I’m writing this post for two reasons: to recommend a new book by Columbia astrobiologist Caleb Scharf, and to defend an old book of mine.
As finals draw to a close, we can all breathe a sigh of relief that, whether poorly or well, this semester has finally ended.
As the semester winds down, I returned to an old friend of a restaurant, Stacks Pancake House on Washington Street, which you might know for their warm, fluffy pancakes, abundant salads, and busy brunch atmosphere.
In the grandest rollout of free public Wi-Fi to date, New Yorkers will gain access to the Internet from anywhere in the city with the installation of up to 10,000 Wi-Fi hotspots throughout the five boroughs to form the LinkNYC network.
“Hands up, don’t shoot!”
If this phrase is not familiar to you, you must have somehow missed the news during the last few months.
In my last column, I poked my nose into the debate over whether climate change will precipitate more conflict. I offered half a dozen objections to predictions that more warming means more war.
Hoboken has a plethora of restaurants. While this is almost always a wonderful thing, and a huge benefit to the Mile Square, there is a bit of a drawback.