Avariciously Ingenuous What emerged out of the Singapore Conference On AI, or SCAI, aparently held from 4 to 6 Dec 2023, were 12 concerns that AI poses for mankind. I’m […]

Integrating Immigrants. Recurring Refugees. Dr Condoleezza Rice, the current Tad and Dianne Taube Director of the Hoover Institution, says quite frequently that “It doesn’t matter where you […]

Singing? Would you like an orchestra? I was chatting with someone working for a global company and here for work, meetings and so forth. She was in charge of marketing, surprise, […]

Well Connected? How United? Henry Kissinger has died at age 100. Many will remember him as the most well-connected person on the face of the earth. George Friedman of […]

Conserving Conversing. Stopped at a traffic light, I observed a couple with their pet dog waiting to cross. The dog had caught my eye because it looked like a cross […]

Patton's Patterns I refer of course to the Second World War American General George S Patton. I’m grateful to the Martin and Illie Anderson Senior Fellow at the […]

AR. Absconding Responsibility? Most of you reading this will have come across AR, for “Augmented Reality”. This is where AI is used to help you to “see” and perhaps later […]

Excuse me, are you an autodidact? “How would you know unless you have been taught?” echoed hollowly in my memory as I recalled what some supposedly senior person had intoned from a […]

A few posters you could make better and use Here are five posters. Feel free to improve on them and use them as you like. Make some of your own, too! You’re […]

You Make Me Feel Brand New. Theme for 2065? I grew up in the 60s and 70s, when it seemed that the Stylistics were “falsetto-ing” their way through suburban streets and shopping centres almost […]

Mutual Financial Interests Trumped Political Squabbles The title of this post is taken from Chapter 9 of Jack Weatherford’s “Genghis Khan and the making of the modern world”. It relates how the Mongol […]

The Role of Rote Learning. Role Play is Artificial. Yesterday, I listened in grim dismay to two people who were obviously engaged in the schooling of young persons talking about how a few of their […]

Character and Competence? Character ACQUIRES Necessary Competence! We’ve all probably heard that we have grown from “Character OR Competence” to “Character AND Competence”. Simple but far too simplistic. Yes, there […]

Do Doves Cry? Parrots Parley, Perhaps? Hearing someone trying to defend his views that the best thing which parents can give to their children is a good education and observing him […]

Artificial Intelligence, or Appreciative Inquiry? It is always refreshing to talk to people who actually seem to know what they’re talking about. So distinct from people just shooting their mouths […]

Assassins in every shadow? In Frank Herbert’s Dune series, it was said of Thufir Hawat, the mentat (Basically a human computer) of House Atreides, that he “…sees assassins […]

Positive, negative, que sera sera outlook on life? I wonder what sort of outlook, what people feel inside of them, when they observe the happenings around them and in the world at large. Do they have […]

What's a lecture for? The title of this post is of course a pathetic attempt at spoofing a well-known oldie containing the phrase “What’s forever for?” Having become […]

The Free Market has run its course? After what seems to me to have been a long hiatus, Thomas Sowell returned recently to Uncommon Knowledge where he talks to Peter Robinson about his […]

Living in cities better supports human flourishing? This post is really an ad. Yes, I’ve said that before and I’ll say it again. You are welcome to come and teach me why living in cities is better […]