by zen | Oct 10, 2013 | Monitor
[by Mark Safranski, a.k.a. “zen”] I am not sure how many of the readers ever make it to the “About” page, but there are blurbs for all of the bloggers here, done in my usual ad hoc style. This is what it reads for Charles Cameron: Charles...
by zen | Sep 30, 2013 | Monitor
[by Mark Safranski, a.k.a. “zen”] Working on a number of things, top priority among which is a cross-post for Nuclear Diner about the Myhrvold Report that Cheryl Rofer decisively shredded here last week. Cheryl and I have done some point-counterpoint and...
by zen | Jul 31, 2013 | Monitor
[ by Mark Safranski a.k.a “zen”] Longtime friend of ZP, Adam Elkus interviews our own Charles Cameron at the highly regarded Abu Muqawama blog: Interview Charles Cameron [….] AE: How has the study of apocalyptic tropes and culture changed (if it...
by Charles Cameron | Jun 10, 2013 | Monitor
[ by Charles Cameron — screengrabs from a very recently posted video, mostly Taliban with just a smidgeon of NSA ] [edited to add: please see warning in comment below] . Scary, hunh? Yeah? ** No, this is not from a NSA / Prism video — I’ll have just...
by aelkus | May 21, 2013 | Monitor
When even David Brooks, Herodotus of the Bobos, is waxing lyrical about data and empiricism you know that data science has become mainstream. Drew Conway is right that the phrase is rather clumsy, but so are many other things in social science. If the mad...
