When they were inventing the computer they probably intended it to be “automatic,” but I think, because of a typo error in an intergeek memo, they made it “autocratic,” just like Hal in Stanley Kubrick’s “2001 Space Odyssey” movie. Hal was the spaceship computer that did away with the crew members because they interfered [...]

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In trying to come up with the saddest possible sport, I first imagined a variant of baseball in which the Royals and Cubs play the fourth inning over and over and over and over with water balloons instead of baseballs, and nobody’s in the stands except for Kofi Annan, and he’s crying. [...]

A brief history lesson tells us that while the nation might be facing a retirement crisis, retirement itself is a relatively recent invention. Understanding how retirement evolved reminds us that we can have a lot of influence over what comes next. The nation might be facing a retirement crisis, but what does that mean? In fact, what [...]

SULLIVAN — If something is worth inventing, it’s worth inventing again. Armed with that kind of reassurance, Sullivan entrepreneur Larry Yoder has gone ahead and reinvented the horseless carriage “because I had a ball doing it.” And it really is a carriage: He’s taken a former Amish buggy and built solar panels into the roof [...]

A principal accused of inventing students to get cash for Australia’s top indigenous college is behind bars after allegedly contacting witnesses in the case. Jean Illingworth, former principal of Djarragun College near Cairns, was charged with fraud in January for allegedly providing incorrect enrolment numbers to obtain up to $9 million in taxpayer funding. The [...]

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<!– –> By Tom Yerace Published: Sunday, July [...]

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