You might believe it was the bands, the guitars, the hair, the costumes or the DJs. But the driving force behind the spread of rock and roll was none of these.
Joseph Weizenbaum may have been the first person to lose his job because of artificial intelligence. Only he wasn’t replaced by an artificially-intelligent computer, he created one.
Our lives are permanently in transit according to the Comma Queen, Mary Norris. “We don’t put in the work to choose words because our words feel transitory.”
My dad's professional basketball career with Philadelphia ended when the Japanese bombed Pearl Harbor. Should I have had to pay the price for his fame?
Every year I visit Las Vegas and every year I find the same old thing. No one is willing to take a bet on who is right: Albert Einstein or Gene Roddenberry. It’s too early to call Roddenberry the winner, but a fairly new, and totally strange, behavior might put a dent in Einstein’s winning streak.
It’s a quiet Sunday afternoon until your child or grandchild drops the t-bomb. “I’m getting a tattoo,” he or she says. Disabuse yourself of the notion that you have raised a deviant, criminal or future Marine. Chances are, you have raised an art connoisseur.