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The Terminator Comes to Wall Street
… specific human intervention, represented almost 17 percent of trades—more than 900 million shares per day.
Since the data that feed these analytical formulas come from the past, the models can have trouble responding to extraordinary or unprecedented events. When credit markets began to seize up in mid-2008 and the securities markets went …
The Peacock Problem
… called courts within a communal display area called a lek, while white-collared males accompany the females on feeding expeditions. Then the white-collared males return to the communal display area where black-collared males solicit them to join and become a pair of males within a court. Upon their return to the lek …
Read MorePurpose-Driven Life
… to specialize, the quality of some of the earliest art suggests that some individuals, long before agriculture, had the luxury of developing singular skills. Creative concentration and feedback during composition could work like a speeded-up version of natural selection, as these artists rapidly generated, discarded, and regenerated new variations.
Even in societies where art …
Second Chances, Social Forgiveness, and the Internet
… find ways to deal in cyberspace with those who deceive and cheat, then our ability to use the internet for travel, trade, investment, and much else will be severely set back.
This need is served in part by user-generated feedback and ratings, which inform others who may do business via the Internet—much like
Literary Cubs, Canceling Out Each Other’s Reticence
… in Chicago with the hope that they too could make it. Informal mentors came and went. When Margaret Walker was working on a new poem and wanted feedback from another writer, she took it to Algren’s house, and they talked it over. Then she went home and completed the powerful last stanza of “For …
Read MoreThe Future of the American Frontier
… expectations. Four hundred years of this ideology—fostered and promoted by church and state, the news media, schools, and popular culture generally—has nurtured this exceptionalism that feeds arrogance and wastefulness and war.
But the myth is resilient. The alternative is to reinvent it, to co-opt, in effect, frontier symbolism from its destructive tendencies …
Spies Among Us
… regional groups, was in a state of heightened paranoia, monitoring anyone even remotely connected to dissent or radicalism—from Benjamin Spock to the American Nazi Party—and feeding thousands of reports a month into a database located in a Washington, D.C., suburb. Started in 1965 with a focus on preparing for civil disturbances, the …
Read MoreCollateral Damage
… own reckoning he cared for more than 80,000 soldiers in the course of the war. He assisted at amputations, carried bedpans, fed those too weak to feed themselves, held the hands or mopped the brows of men dying of typhoid, dysentery, pyemia (an epidemic blood infection), and systemic gangrene. He wrote hundreds of letters …
Read MoreLucid Madness
… story takes a turn when Eastern liberals, some descended from abolitionists, call for reform of Indian policy. Settlements like Camp Grant become safe havens for the Apache, feeding paranoia in Tucson when Indian raids continue. The deaths at distant Tubac of a Leslie Wooster and his lover, a Mexican girl called Mrs. Wooster by newspapers …
Read MoreThe Art of Human Surveillance
… chop glide under the table, and just when I’m about to let him know that I don’t want to have to tell him again about feeding Gustav from his plate, the chop disappears in the pouch of his hooded pullover.
He’s smooth. Through the rest of dinner, he sits composed as the …