President Trump announced the nominee for the Supreme Court, Brett Kavanaugh, on Monday evening and already a multi-million dollar PR brawl has broken out.  Democrats want to gain the votes of three Republicans against the nominee.  Republicans want to gain the votes of three Democrats for the nominee.  In the worst case scenario, Republicans will […]

Posted on July 11th, 2018 by admin
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Britain’s decision to leave the EU wasn’t right from the moment it was voted on.  Now that the secretary for Brexit has abruptly left his post in the UK, there is a chance for sanity to return.  The country stood to lose far more than it gained from the rupture.  It was as harebrained as […]

Posted on July 9th, 2018 by admin
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The world is paying attention to the 12 boys and their coach caught three miles inside a Thai cave.  If anything goes wrong while divers extract them, it will be international news.  This is a time when one doesn’t want to make even a single misstep.  Not only would it harm someone but it would […]

Posted on July 5th, 2018 by admin
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Artificial intelligence is getting closer to taking on and beating humans even in highly complex and unstructured games.  DeepMind announced that its AI agents exceed human level gameplay in Quake III.  This is an ever-changing 3D environment in which one captures the flag.  The scientists who prepped the play had their AI program compete each […]

Posted on July 4th, 2018 by admin
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Mexico’s new president is a leftist who has swept out the ruling party.  He won, by all accounts, because Mexican citizens are tired of violence, poverty and corruption in the country.  They want a new start and a clean slate. There is no guarantee Andrés Manuel López Obrador can bring about the necessary change to make […]

Posted on July 2nd, 2018 by admin
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