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World Views
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Ayn Rand Versus Plato

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Peter Corning
January 30, 2018

Plato’s great dialogue, the Republic, written more than 2000 years ago, remains one of the most influential works about social justice ever written.  The twentieth century novelist and social philosopher Ayn Rand, perhaps the most influential conservative/ libertarian voice of the present day, had a radically different vision.  So, it might be useful to do a brief comparison between Plato and Ayn Rand.

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Spirituality
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Silence

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Erasmus
January 30, 2018

Your names always went together, or maybe after 30 years of marriage, one remembers the names like that, like salt and pepper. You can imagine the surprise and shock when I got the news- actually delayed news. I received a message late at night/early morning, telling me to please phone, it’s not good news, it is devastating news.

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Business
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How are large corporations like Walmart handing out tax windfalls to the people?

PR for People Team
January 29, 2018

How are  large corporations handing out tax windfalls to the people? In a surprise move that shows how Walmart plans to redistribute part of their windfall from corporate tax cuts with their employees, they have fired thousands of Sam Club employees nationally. 

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Tech
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The Digital View of Making It

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Dean Landsman
January 29, 2018

“Making it” can take on many meanings. To some it can be as simple as having a job in a field of their choice. To others, rising to the top of the field of their choice would be making it.  Another variation would be attaining a certain position in that field.

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Comedy
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Jersey City Has a New Room, Style Advice and More

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Jeffrey Gurian
January 26, 2018
Jersey City Has a New Room, An Ex Comic Has Style Advice For Comedians, Plus News From Ian Fidance, and More
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Tech
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Your Camera's Shutter

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William Lulow
January 23, 2018

Note: At the risk of sounding too “scientific” I thought this little lesson might help the average photographer understand more about how the camera actually works.

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World Views
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The Biosocial Contract, Part 2: Some Policy Implications

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Peter Corning
January 21, 2018
 
An ideology without a concrete, programmatic plan for how to realize its objectives is merely rhetoric, or fantasy, or perhaps even sophistry.  It’s only when you spell out the social, economic and political implications of your vision that you allow its merits, and practicality (and political viability) to be tested in the real world.  Marxism was extremely vague and permitted the likes of Lenin, Stalin, and Mao to fashion their own political agendas.  Modern libertarianism, likewise, comes in a bewildering array of sometimes contradictory views.  Some libertarians seem to take a piecemeal approach (in this country at least), focusing on such specific political issues as legalizing marijuana, gay/lesbian/transgender rights, Obamacare, etc.
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World Views
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The Biosocial Contract (Part 1): An Ideology for the Fair Society

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Peter Corning
January 20, 2018
 
It’s not what you think.  In the age of texting and tweets, our whole society seems to suffer from an attention deficit disorder.  So, let me begin with a disclaimer.  A Biosocial Contract (or Biosocialism for short) has nothing to do with socialism in any one of its many different forms.  If anything, its philosophical roots could be traced back to Plato’s Republic and The Laws (I’ll explain later on).  In fact, the theoretical foundation and basic assumptions of Biosocialism are rooted in evolutionary biology and the emerging science of human nature – quite unlike the other “isms” that are out there in our politics.
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Comedy
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Carolines, A Comedy Get Down and Holiday Parties Galore!

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Jeffrey Gurian
January 19, 2018
Impractical Jokers at Carolines, Big Stars Join Together for Comedy Get Down, You’ll Never Guess Who’s Got a Book Coming Out and Holiday Parties Galore! #TheFoodWasGreat
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Tech & Science
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“Feedback”: It’s the Only Way to “Control the Controllers”

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Peter Corning
January 19, 2018

“Feedback” is a hugely important phenomenon.  It plays a key role in all goal-oriented, dynamic systems, from living organisms to self-driving cars.  Feedback is information that tells a system how it is doing in relation to its goals and guides its behavior over time.  (Feedback systems are often referred to as being “cybernetic”, after the Greek word for “helmsman” – kybernetes.)  Positive feedback tells the system to continue doing what it is doing, or even to do more of it.  And negative feedback tells the system to change its behavior. 

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