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In John Herz’s Idealist Internationalism and the Security Dilemma, he describes “Security Dilemma” as groups or individuals within a state, being concerned about their security and well-being from being attac […]

How Your Brain Is Getting Hacked: Facebook, Tinder, Slot Machines | Tristan Harris | Big Think

Over the years, theorists have come up with different schools of thinking to examine why events occur. Two of the main ones, explaining and understanding, examine events differently. In understanding an event, […]

Theories in the sciences must be subject to constraints, barring the existence of some unified theory of everything. Without boundary conditions, a theory can never hope to fully explain a phenomena or make a […]

What Facebook, Google, and Others can learn from Microsoft's antitrust case

Your phone is trying to control your life

Hurtling towards a surveillance state

https://youtu.be/bqpJK2O2B-8

Tracked: How Colleges Use AI To Monitor Student Protests by Arijit Douglas Sen and Derêka Bennett

‘The hearing, a transcript of which was recently unsealed, was aimed at resolving one crucial issue: What information, precisely, does Facebook store about us, and where is it? The engineers’ response will come […]

‘Local companies are struggling to recruit and retain key talent as US tech titans led by Microsoft, Amazon and Google tilt the market in their favour with high salaries and attractive employment terms.’

Economics Department happily announces to present Dr. Wendong Zhang’s lecture.

Date: Wednesday, September 28th at 4:15pm.

Where: Ruth Williams Hall 060

About Lecture: 

Of Women and Land: How Gen […]

Two major camps of research frameworks, as understood by Hollis and Smith (1992), are outlined as the “outside story” or explanatory research, and the “inside story” or understanding research.  These two camps ar […]