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Commencement: The Fringe Benefits of Failure, and the Importance of Imagination
By JK Rowling at Harvard University, 2008. Watch JK Rowling's speech here. President Faust, members of the Harvard Corporation and the Board of Overseers, members of the faculty, proud parents, and, above all, graduates. The first thing I would like to say is ‘thank … [Read More...]
The Rational Optimist: How Prosperity Evolves
By Rafael Panlilio. “Rational optimism holds that the world will pull out of the current crisis because of the way that markets in goods, services and ideas allow human beings to exchange and specialize honestly for the betterment of all. So this is not a book of unthinking praise or … [Read More...]
Bridging the Gap: The Power of the Media Lens
By Gao Qinglian I happened to watch a part of Joe’s speech in UPENN Commencement 2013 this Monday, in which I heard the following: “China is a great nation, and we should hope for the continued expansion. But ladies and gentlemen, their problems are immense, and they lack much of what we … [Read More...]
The Day Without Drones
By Quenique Newbill. A recent New York Times article highlighted the public policy debate on the use of drones strikes versus captures in high level terror suspects. This debate is not new. Since the advent of the "War on Terror", Human rights groups have expressed legal concerns with the … [Read More...]
Kepler and its Promising Discoveries
After four years of measuring blips, NASA’s Kepler space telescope has discovered the most Earth-like “exoplanet” to date. Kepler-62f and 62e are both approximately 1.5 times bigger than earth and both orbit within the “habitable zone” of a star smaller and dimmer than our sun. This … [Read More...]
International Adoption and Political Games
Some countries, for whatever reasons, look upon international adoption with disdain. In response, they often attempt to limit the number of children being sent overseas through outright bans or by improving the system of domestic adoption. Romania opted for the ban. South Korea, one of the … [Read More...]
The Ironic Spectator: Solidarity in the Age of Post-Humanitarianism
By Rafael Panlilio. “It is, I argue, only when we examine solidarity as a problem of communication, that is, as a moral claim seeking to reconcile the competing demands of market, politics and the media, that we can better understand how the spectacle of suffering is subtly but surely turning … [Read More...]
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