Big Concerns With Big Data

Last October, I commented on the current trend of relying on “big data” to help in decision thinking [ see post ]. David Brooks, in a recent post for The New York Times, gave an interesting twist to the same area of discussion. He opens with the story a...

In Search of Living Genius

Try to catch the recent article by Daisy Yuhas in a special issue of Scientific American devoted to the subject of “genius”. That’s a word that’s tossed around a great deal. Some, at least, define what they mean by the term and put forth real...