Daily Archives: August 30, 2009

The Great Perhaps Review

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Joe Meno put together a great novel in “The Great Perhaps.”   I’m certainly a biased reader when it comes to stories about the complexity of life and human relations. My bias balloons when the writer is a Chicagoan writing about … Continue reading →

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Short Term Business Vision Dominates

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Business Week has a really great article about the value of basic research in R&D Labs to future economies. Many of the classic scientific research labs, such as Bell Labs and RCA Labs (now Sarnoff Corp.), were started and funded … Continue reading →

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People are Complicated yet Oversimplified in the Media – why?

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What do you make of Michael Vick, Ted Kennedy, Dick Cheney and Michael Jackson?  Villians? Heros? Role-Models? Titans? Flawed? Deserving? Entitled? Charismatic? Faithful? Loyal? Disturbed? All of these things? None of these things? These people, as all people, are infinitely … Continue reading →

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