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Month: November 2020
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Are There Limits to the Predictability of Elections?
No comments on Are There Limits to the Predictability of Elections?The elegant mathematical models of classical mechanics depict a world in which objects exhibit deterministic behaviors. These models make perfect predictions within the accuracy of their human-scale measurements. But, once you start dealing with atoms, molecules and exotic subatomic particles, you find yourself in a very different world, one with somewhat counter-intuitive behaviors governed by the…
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On November 18, the MIT Task Force on the Work of the Future released its final report, The Work of the Future: Building Better Jobs in an Age of Intelligent Machines. The Task Force was commissioned in the spring of 2018 by MIT President Rafael Reif to address what may well be the most critical…
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On September 13, 1970, the NY Times Magazine published an essay by University of Chicago economist and 1976 Nobel Prize recipient Milton Friedman – “The Social Responsibility of Business is to Increase its Profits.” Friedman’s essay turned out to be one of the most influential ever published in the world of business. To mark its…
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The Public Face of Science was launched four years ago by the American Academy of Arts and Sciences to better understand the complex relationship between scientists and the American public. The initiative has now published three reports. The first, Perceptions of Science in America, was published in 2018. It found that a majority of Americans…