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Herbert London: National Will And Foreign Policy - WAMC
WAMC
Despite the Marxist assertion that economic factors drive the forces of history, modernity offers a different response. Jacobins during the French Revolution argued that politics – understood as the quest for power – drives history. Here, too, history ...
Seventeen awarded with Chancellor's Award for Excellence - UW Oshkosh Today
UW Oshkosh Today
UW Oshkosh Today
It was the Chess Club that pushed Brown to think outside the box and grow as a leader. He served as an undergraduate research assistant, presenting two projects to the Midwestern Criminal Justice Association. He enjoys helping others by tutoring at the ...
CBS adds 5 new series, brings back 22 - Detroit Free Press
Detroit Free Press
Detroit Free Press
NEW YORK – While comfortably successful CBS is bringing back 22 series for the 2015-16 season, it's found room for three new dramas: In addition to "Supergirl," the medical series "Code Black" and "Limitless," based on the movie, are joining the schedule.
CBS cancels 'CSI: Crime Scene Investigation,' star Ted Danson to move to 'CSI ...The Province
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A closer look at the RoboCup - Rappler (blog)
Rappler (blog)
Rappler (blog)
While chess offers a good platform for showcasing computer talent competing against human brain power, it offered little with regards to how computer intelligence can be measured against its interaction with human beings in the physical world. Enter ...
How one woman turned her cancer diagnosis into a health care startup - Phoenix Business Journal (blog)
Phoenix Business Journal (blog)
Phoenix Business Journal (blog)
Now it works with leading health care organizations such as McGill, lung cancer research foundations, the Rare Cancers Research Organization and many others, with the goal of collecting and analyzing massive amounts of data across many chronic diseases ...
A Dozen Lessons From Julian Robertson On Investing - GuruFocus.com (registration)
GuruFocus.com (registration)
Warren Buffett (Trades, Portfolio) makes the point that the way to beat Bobbie Fisher is to play him at something other than chess. Buffett adds: “The important thing is to keep playing, to play against weak opponents and to playfor big stakes.” And ...
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A Dozen Lessons From Julian Robertson On Investing - GuruFocus.com (registration)
GuruFocus.com (registration)
Warren Buffett (Trades, Portfolio) makes the point that the way to beat Bobbie Fisher is to play him at something other than chess. Buffett adds: “The important thing is to keep playing, to play against weak opponents and to playfor big stakes.” And ...
China-Japan Before China-Taiwan - ValueWalk
ValueWalk
ValueWalk
The continued existence of Taiwan (or the Republic of China) as a free, democratic and independent state is a chess move the entire international community, not just the U.S. cannot afford not to make. ... EconMatters is made up of a team of financial ...
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Sirsi student tops State in SSLC examination - Deccan Herald
Deccan Herald
Deccan Herald
I took tuitions in Science, Maths and English subjects. I was attentive in the class and used to revise the lessons everyday. I spend a lot of time reading on current events and GK books,” says, Disha who wants to pursue MSc and do research in physical ...
The Art of Feedback: Striking a Balance Between Guidance and Criticism - LifeHacker India
LifeHacker India
LifeHacker India
The research has made this clear: Vulnerability is at the heart of the feedback process. This is true whether we give, ... You can't script every move-that would be like trying to foresee the seventeenth move in a chess game. It's the critical moves ...
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Explaining The Myths Of Baseball's Great Debate - NBC 7 San Diego
NBC 7 San Diego
“I have seen a number on instances where I felt like the manager pulled out all the stops to win that game to the detriment of the team,” says Vince Gennaro, President of the Society for American Baseball Research (SABR), and author of Diamond Dollars ...
City Council counters CMPA leadership move - Pensacola News Journal
Pensacola News Journal
Pensacola News Journal
A chess match has begun between the Pensacola City Council and the Community Maritime Park Associates over the council's power to appoint members of the CMPA's Board of Trustees. The latest move is City Council President Andy Terhaar's call for a ...
How to survive being a mother - Courier Mail
Courier Mail
Courier Mail
(Outside pressure on new mums has only intensified in the past decade: new Queensland University of Technology research shows many are starting to turn off social media in an attempt to stop esteem-damaging comparisons.) When Ruby ... One result is a ...
9 Unconventional Ways To Stay Young As You Grow Old - Huffington Post
Huffington Post
Huffington Post
Almost hidden by all the news about the UK election was a little gem of an article that appeared in the press last week. It was about how to stay young, as you grow older. Some of the tips included learning a new language, playing an instrument ...
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Sieren's China: Wrangling over the South Pole - Deutsche Welle
Deutsche Welle
Deutsche Welle
Last month, a thirteen-member team returned to Beijing with a positive assessment from a successful expedition to Inexpressible Island: The uninhabited island in the Antarctic region is suitable for a fifth research base. Only recently have the Chinese ...
Cinema becomes war zone for 'Call of Duty' eSports fans - Business Insider
Business Insider
So-called "eSports" are set to generate almost $500 million a year in revenues globally by 2017, according to research firm Newzoo. ... The atmosphere veers from the quiet tension of a chess match to the quick-fire highs and lows of a Formula One race.
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Cinema becomes war zone for "Call of Duty" eSports fans - Reuters
Reuters
So-called "eSports" are set to generate almost $500 million a year in revenues globally by 2017, according to research firm Newzoo. ... The atmosphere veers from the quiet tension of a chess match to the quick-fire highs and lows of a Formula One race.
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Computer squares off against professional poker players – and loses badly - ZME Science
ZME Science
ZME Science
Even the best chess players are no match for computers these days, but computers are still struggling when it comes to games that have a random or unknown component. In games like Bridge or Poker, humans still hold the crown. Scientists from the ...
Can a computer beat one of the world's best poker players?CBS News
CMU AI Claudico Is Good At Poker But Not Good Enough For World's Best ...Tech Times
First-Ever Computer Versus Human Poker Competition Ends in Statistical Tie90.5 WESA
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Device takes design into the next dimension - messenger-inquirer
messenger-inquirer
messenger-inquirer
Bailes, who has been working with 3-D printing at OCTC since 2003, said the 3-D printers have been around for nearly three decades, but they were mostly for industry, engineering and research use. But within the past five years, he said, they've become ...
Does Artificial Intelligence Pose a Threat? - Wall Street Journal
Wall Street Journal
Wall Street Journal
Taking part in the discussion are Jaan Tallinn, a co-founder of Skype and the think tanks Centre for the Study of Existential Risk and the Future of Life Institute; Guruduth S. Banavar, vice president of cognitive computing at IBM's Thomas J. Watson ...