Category Archives: Communications

The Trump Reality Show Will Last Throughout His Term

The Trump Reality Show Will Last Throughout His Term Given the starting week surprises of ATE (After Trump was Elected), it appears that his reign will not be like any dull administration.  It will be more amazing than the Kardashian … Continue reading

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An Internet Vote for President

An Internet Vote for President, With or Without an Electoral Vote This article is a suggestion for an Internet vote for President, which works with the present electoral vote system, or also with its possible future conversion to a popular … Continue reading

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In Politics, The Media IS The Message

In Politics, The Media IS The Message Since the popularization of television, the media presence of candidates has been a key way that the public makes their evaluation of candidates. The rise and dominance of Donald Trump started with his … Continue reading

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The Iowa Caucus Results – Do The Math

Iowa Caucus Results – Do The Math First lets get some perspective. Iowa is a proportional split state, not a winner-take-all state. What percent of the total national party delegates come from Iowa? For the Republicans it is 30 delegates … Continue reading

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The ill logic of the phrase “We’re recording this call for quality purposes”.

  I of course assume that they are calling to get me to somehow commit to buying something, so I usually beg off by saying something about just not responding to such calls. I used to cite civil liberties. Now … Continue reading

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Freedom of speech, knowledge, and net neutrality

Is freedom of speech and knowledge transference going to be helped or hurt by the abolition of net neutrality? Net neutrality means everything gets the same priority without extra charges over the usual provider access charges. Its loss would mean … Continue reading

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Lifelong Learning is a Bargain

This is explanation of the Osher Lifelong Learning Institutes (OLLI), and a comparison of the costs of our classes to that of a UC public university.  I realize the purposes of the universities and costs are quite different, and will comment … Continue reading

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Talk by Chemerinsky, Makdisi, and Nicholas Goldberg on the Op-Ed Articles in the LA Times

Talk by Irwin Chemerinsky, Sadee Makdisi, and Nicholas Goldberg on the Op-Ed Articles in the LA Times, on November 12, 2013. Erwin Chemerinsky (C) is the Dean of the UC Irvine Law School Nicholas Goldberg (N) was the Op-Ed Editor … Continue reading

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The Costs, Uses, Training, and Scientific Contributions of High Energy Physics

In giving talks about particle physics, I am usually asked what are the practical applications of particle physics.  I often think that the audience is aghast that someone would ask a pure theorist who works only for scientific knowledge, what … Continue reading

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Talk by Genevieve Bell of Intel on “Does Data Have a Secret Life: An Ethnographic Account of ‘Big Data’ and the Cloud”

On May 10, Genevieve Bell of Intel gave a Department of Informatics talk at UC Irvine, titled “Does Data Have a Secret Life: An Ethnographic Account of ‘Big Data’ and the Cloud” For her remarkable achievements, I quote from the … Continue reading

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