Art by Laura Paragano In the 1983 classic WarGames, Mathew Broderick, playing a young hacker named David Lightman, unintentionally infiltrates a military supercomputer. Believing he is playing a computer game, Lightman unwittingly causes a military supercomputer to simulate a nuclear war and nearly sets off World War III. The potential for the military and government’s reliance on computers has long [...]
by Benjamin Brockman It is a war that has been going on longer than the US conflict in Afghanistan, has led to the violent rape of more than 200,000 women, has racked up an unfathomable death toll of 5.4 million—eighteen times that of the estimated tragedies of Darfur or three and a half times the population of the entire city [...]
January’s stunning events have brought enormous political and social tension to the fore across the Middle East and North Africa. With the success of the Jasmine Revolution in dethroning Tunisia’s long serving dictator, and related uprisings in Egypt, Algeria, Yemen, Jordan and even Sudan, a political crisis has now become evident. Fueled by economic and political frustration alike, the region’s [...]
by David Chen Tokyo, Hong Kong, Singapore, Shanghai, Beijing. In just a couple of decades, these names have vaulted to global-city status, putting them on the same level as leading Western metropolises like New York, London, and Paris. Tokyo currently has the largest metropolitan economy in the world, while Hong Kong is in contention for the world’s most impressive skyline. [...]
Was it just me or did Hu Jintao’s visit seem extraordinarily majestic, well-covered, and celebratory? The United States laid out the mats for him, giving him not one, but two, dinners with President Obama, and the American media seemed to cover his visit with the same vivaciousness and obsession as the British or Indonesian media covers Obama’s visits. “Sasha Obama [...]
In an April 2009 speech given in Prague, Barack Obama outlined his vision for a “nuclear-free world,” officially orienting long-term United States policy in the direction of drastic nuclear stockpile cuts. Since then, the U.S. and Russia have taken a step in the right direction with the New START treaty, which limits both countries to 1,550 actively deployed nuclear weapons. [...]
Note: PPR is opening its blog to guest posts from all candidates in the upcoming student government elections, through Friday at close of voting. We encourage candidates to submit an article, of any length, discussing any issue they are concerned with. Please send your submission, along with any photos you would like to appear in the post, to online [dot] [...]
Note: PPR is opening its blog to guest posts from all candidates in the upcoming student government elections, through Friday at close of voting. We encourage candidates to submit an article, of any length, discussing any issue they are concerned with. Please send your submission, along with any photos you would like to appear in the post, to online [dot] [...]
Note: PPR is opening its blog to guest posts from all candidates in the upcoming student government elections, through Friday at close of voting. We encourage candidates to submit an article, of any length, discussing any issue they are concerned with. Please send your submission, along with any photos you would like to appear in the post, to online [dot] [...]
A few weeks ago, just before spring break, New York Times columnist David Brooks spoke at Penn as a part of a series sponsored by the Center for Neuroscience and Society. In the past, Brooks has written several columns and given a number of talks on the implications of cognitive neuroscience research in the social sciences. And on March 8, [...]
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