The Science Of Financial Calculations Applied To Social Sciences

“The idea behind SocialSTREAM, and other experiments like it, is to collect reams of live text being published to the internet, and to run it through dictionaries designed to test language for signs of mood. For an individual tweet – “Good morning!” – this might be meaningless. But taken across millions of postings, from the personal to political, a rough indicator of popular sentiment does emerge.”

Epicurus Was No Epicurean

For Christian Europeans, the Greek philosopher’s name became a byword for luxuriant sensuality; for Jews, his name denoted a godless heretic. While Epicurus was indeed godless and heathen (he believed in no deities), he was by no means a hedonist: his thought, in fact, was close to that of the Stoics.

Radio’s Going Everywhere (That’s Why NPR Isn’t ‘National Public Radio’ Anymore)

New NPR CEO Gary Knell: “Now you have voice-activation systems in Fords and other car manufacturers, which are just going to get faster, smaller, and cheaper every year, and NPR’s gotta be on there. Public radio’s gotta be a player. If we’re not on these platforms, we’re dead. This isn’t a choice of whether — it’s really a choice of how.”