With routinely more deaths than births per year, Japan is now a “net mortality society.”
Did you get rejected by Stanford? Are you a liberal arts major, or what the techies would call a “fuzzy”? Then you might have what it takes to master CS221: Introduction to Artificial Intelligence. Then again, you might not, but it costs nothing to try.
Andy Revkin of the New York Times‘s Dot Earth blog is O.K. with the processed beef scrap filler known as “pink slime”, and he thinks you should be O.K. with it too.
“Physics at the Fringe”, says Freeman Dyson, is what happens when imagination loses touch with observation.
Kim Jong-il is dead. Does the succession of his son Kim Jong-un present a moment for tougher sanctions, hard containment, more robust engagement, or continued patience and caution? North Korea watchers from China, Japan and the U.S. State Department game out short- and long-term solutions to the DPRK conundrum.
