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31 January 2014 DAVOS, SWITZERLAND – The delegates to the annual World Economic Forum (WEF) insist that they are not an out-of-touch elite, but are actually “unappreciated servants of humanity.” “People don’t realize how ungodly difficult it is to ga... More »
A literature professor, a geneticist and a provost are in a lifeboat. The provost gets to decide which of the two are to go. No, not of the three. That would be elementary rather than advanced math. This provost has long since left simple numbers behind, but r... More »
by Dan Geddes While conspiracy theorists often imagine billionaires meeting together in secrecy to plan the future of the world, billionaires themselves scoff at this idea. Based on a recent Washington Chronicle survey of the approximately 1,000 billionaires i... More »
Llewyn’s (Oscar Isaac) opening folk performance at The Gaslight Cafe in 1961 sets the tone for a surprisingly non-violent Coen brothers’ movie about a struggling singer in the early folk scene in New York. Inside Llewyn Davis doesn’t seem like a Coen Br... More »
Dave Eggers 3 January 2014 Review by Dan Geddes The Circle, Dave Eggers’ novel named for a fictitious Google-like company that profits from its users’ data and destroys individual privacy, is a topical and compelling read. The story takes place in a... More »