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  • Constructive Criticism

    If I ever have to mark a paper or review an article that’s by a female author, and about gender differences, I think a funny thing to do would be to write on it, “pretty good…for a girl” .

  • The Impending Robot Revolution

    Below is a quote from Ray Kurzweil’s book The Singularity is Near. To put it in context: The singularity is a time when humanity as we know it will suddenly change drastically, due to advances in technology. For example, our brains will be enhanced by nonbiological computers, and we’ll spend half our time in fully…

  • Stephen King’s Richard Bachman’s "New" Book

    I saw this book in Chapters the other day, and my eye was drawn to Stephen King’s name. Of course, this is exactly what the publishers wanted my eye to do, because everyone knows who Stephen King is, but fewer know Richard Bachman. The funny thing is, the book’s only author is Bachman, whose name…