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We could end up living “the bad dream of an economy in which robots do all the production, including the production of robots”, says the 1987 Nobel laureate Robert M. Solow. People may become better at emotional skills – the one realm where they might out-compete robots – but face-to-face interaction may continue to lose …
I’d like to take a bomber And drop bombs upon the comma, Whose phrase attenuation Is the bane of punctuation. I always use too many; In my prose they’re ten a penny, While a lawyer, rather direly, Has abolished them entirely. A comma alters, meaning Is the goal to which I’m leaning. The comma’s like …
The grammar-hammers are at it again, this time trying to abolish the comma. People intent on tearing apart the language, word by word, hyphen by hyphen, cannot see the importance of correct grammar, maybe because they have never learned it? The poet, Geoffrey Hill, highlighted a typical and subtle example of the value of the …
Because of the Supreme Court’s infamous, undemocratic Citizens United ruling, corporations can spend as much as they want trying to tilt elections toward candidates who will put profits before people. And the lack of disclosure means the public — and even a corporation’s own shareholders — are kept in the dark when executives funnel corporate …
Until recently, tough restrictions forced Spanish women to go abroad for abortions – in such numbers that regular charter flights to London were set up. In 2010 the Socialist government introduced a new law permitting early-term abortion, bringing Spain into line with the rest of Europe. But now conservative justice minister Alberto Ruiz-Gallardón wants to …
