“Are you crazy?” “You’re kidding me!’ “You can’t possibly believe that!” “I just don’t get her at all!” In the past week, how many times have you said that you just don’t understand somebody—an acquaintance, family member, co-worker, or maybe a politician? It can be...
Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI in the biz) are hot topics. Businesses want to know how to recruit and retain diverse employees at every level. Churches across the spectrum from Catholics and Episcopalians to Muslims, Baptists to Jews, Presbyterians to Latter...
Forty percent of unarmed people shot and killed by police officers are Black, even though Black men make up 6% of the nation’s population. http://www.denverpost.com/2016/07/12/fact-check-more-whites-shot-by-police-in-2015-than-minorities/ When statistics on...
mariafabrizio.com/ Comedy Central’s Jon Stewart makes his living turning the news into jokes. But on the day after the racial massacre in Charleson, he said he had no jokes to tell. As he put it, “I didn’t do my job today, so I apologize. I got...
Most of us think of our favorite holidays as times for the family to get together in celebration, love, and harmony. But in many U.S. households, “just beneath the refined veneer of the best dishes and silverware, some politically polarized family members will be...
How will we know when a computer can actually think? If you’re an artificial intelligence programmer, you watch the results of the Turing Test, a yearly competition that pits humans against computer programs designed to carry on a conversation. The rule is, if a...
