In a Business Insider article, “Why Google Is Making Massive, Crazy Bets On Drones And Robots,” reporter Megan Rose Dickey explains that Google is expanding itself from the virtual world to the physical world by noting that Google has just purchased a
In part one of this series, we noted that “They” – that is, powerful institutions existing beyond familiar forms of accountability – were winning their fights. These institutions were winning, we observed, not in the open court of public opinion, but rather in the
In the first installment of this trilogy, we explored how many big decisions in America are made as the result of institutional behavior, as opposed to any sort of ideology, left or right. That is, institutions have their own gravity,
They are winning. They are in charge. But who is They? It’s not the Democrats–they have lost the House, probably for many years to come, and they could well lose the Senate this November. And Barack Obama is a very lame duck; does
Meningitis is an infection of the brain, spinal cord, or other nerve tissue. The disease is usually traced to one of five different strains of the meningococcus bacteria, which can cripple or kill; recently, worldwide, as many as 4,000 people
