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What's significant in this story is not that a computer can perform tasks more efficiently than a human, but that…

Reflections on Flannery O’Connor’s “The River”

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I'm teaching "The River" today in an "Introduction to Literary Study" course. Demonstrating that we know what to do if…

FCC Approves Net Neutrality Rules For ‘Open Internet’

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Verizon and Comcast lobbyists hang their heads. Technolibertarians rejoice... within reason. The full text of the policy has not been released,…

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I love giving the "what is rhetoric" lecture in my freshman writing seminar. Most students have at least heard of…

Lincoln’s last play; or, the continuing fascination with “Our American Cousin”

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E. A. Sothern as the foppish and silly Lord Dundreary stole the show. His part was originally small, but his…

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I remember, as a kid, being thrilled by the images that came in from the Voyager flybys in the late…

Police respond to Twitter bot sending death threat to another Twitter bot

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Jeffry built himself a harmless little Twitter bot. His intent was to create something that remixed his previous tweets into…

Why teens are leaving Facebook: It’s ‘meaningless’

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However, there’s a silver lining for Mark Zuckerberg, as his company owns Instagram and WhatsApp, a popular messaging service. Whereas…

We don’t need more STEM majors. We need more STEM majors with liberal arts training.

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A chemist celebrates the liberal arts. Our culture has drawn an artificial line between art and science, one that did…