• What can Wrestlemania teach us about Trump voters?

    Social conservatives used to criticise wrestling for its bad language and violence, now liberals say it’s too sexist. That cultural shift may be reflected in voting patterns too, if Donald Trump can persuade enough people that the Democrats are today’s prudes, says Will Cooling It is nearly a decade since Donald Trump descended the golden []

  • What can the dot-com bubble teach us about the future of AI?

    In the 1990s, Wall Street was very enthusiastic about the internet — and lost a ton of money because of that enthusiasm.

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    How Humane can fix the Ai Pin (before it's too late)

    Last week, startup Humane seeded its long-awaited to reviewers and influencers, and the response has been overwhelmingly underwhelming. Most notable was the review from Marques Brownlee (aka MKBHD), who -- with 18 million followers on YouTube and 6.2 million followers on X -- called Humane's AI pin "the new worst product I think I've ever reviewed, in its current state this thing is bad at almost everything it does, basically all the time."Also: Humane Ai Pin reviews: 5 takeaways on a...

  • How Quine's rabbit can teach you to be a better communicator

    Imagine two anthropologists, Willard and Orman, who stumble over some never-before-seen tribe. There is the usual first-contact kind of behavior: pointing, laughing, and frustrated misunderstandings. It becomes apparent that the anthropologists need to decipher this tribe’s language. But, without Google Translate or pocket dictionaries, it turns out that working out a language from scratch is hard work. One day, a hunting party and the anthropologists are out in a woodland clearing when a rabbit...

  • What bank earnings can tell us about the economy

    Over the next week, six major banks will be reporting their earnings. Higher interest rates could affect both sides of their balance sheets.

  • Israel can still drag the US into war with Iran

    The Biden administration is breathing a sigh of relief that it has so far avoided a wider regional war between Israel and Iran. But that self-congratulation should be tempered with realization that it was a close call and that the incentives for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his hawkish governing coalition to provoke one are still present. The Biden administration’s rhetorical outrage at Iran’s forewarned and well-choreographed symbolic missile and drone attacks on Israeli...

  • What the US can learn from Brussels’s NatCon shutdown

    Is free speech dead in Europe? Just this week in Belgium, police stormed a gathering of conservatives, attempting to overtake the event on the grounds of “public safety” and stopping “a public disturbance.” The National Conservatism Conference, or “NatCon,” planned to host a conference for European conservative thought leaders such as Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor […]

  • Can you guess what Olympic sport this mime is acting out before an Olympian does?

    To kick off the 100-day countdown to the Summer Games in Paris, athletes from Team USA were asked to guess which sport a mime was performing.

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    With "The Sign," 'Bluey' Has Once Again Destroyed Us Emotionally As Only 'Bluey' Can

    "The Sign" is a highly anticipated episode of 'Bluey' and we have the synopsis, themes, and what it's about, as well as some exciting returning characters.

  • Can The US And Iraq Move Beyond Military Ties?

    Can The US And Iraq Move Beyond Military Ties? Authored by James Durso via ResponsibleStatecraft.org, Prime Minister Mohammed Shia' Al Sudani is in Washington next week with both sides hoping to expand their economic relationship Twenty-one years ago, the U.S. and its allies invaded Iraq in the erroneous belief that the country possessed weapons of mass destruction and was allied with al-Qaida, the terror group responsible for the 9/11 attacks. The U.S. created an occupation...

  • Can the US and Iraq move beyond military ties?

    Twenty-one years ago, the U.S. and its allies invaded Iraq in the erroneous belief that the country possessed weapons of mass destruction and was allied with al-Qaida, the terror group responsible for the 9/11 attacks. The U.S. created an occupation authority, but failed to restore order and helped spawn the insurgency that bedeviled it by dismissing the entire Iraqi military and the most experienced civil servants. Coalition troops fought a losing battle, regained their footing with the 2007...

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    What history can tell us about the future of the Mavericks-Clippers series

    Clippers-Mavericks Game 1 painted a very different picture than how each team finished the regular season. What can history tell us about teams peaking -- or fading -- post All-Star break, and what does it mean for the playoffs?