Have you had it with hipsters? Well, good, because hipsters have had it—or so they say.
“I think people are exhausted by trends that have the half-life of a millisecond,” says John Leland, author of “Hip: The History.” “You live in a state of perpetual whiplash, in which the minute you’re up on one trend […]
As the battle over nominees to the U.S. Supreme Court approaches, a solution to the nation’s battle over church and state seems about as likely as a Sonny and Cher reunion. Noah Feldman, noting that Justice Sandra Day O’Connor was the swing vote in several Court decisions protecting what he terms “legal secularism,” suggests an […]
Connotea is kind of a del.icio.us for scientists. I’m not one, but I crashed its gates and instantly found a link to Clay Shirky, who argues that “Ontology is Overrated”. Here he speaks not so much of philosophy–though that, too, falls within his purview–but of artificial intelligence and knowledge management, which also deal with entities […]