Arts & Culture
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August 2019 Magazine

PR for People Team
August 13, 2019

Our featured library this month is the Doris Foley Library, a research library located in Nevada City, California. John de Graaf’s brilliant article THE BEST OF BOTH WORLDS: THE PROMISE OF COHOUSING gives us a perspective on these vital communities and Nevada City, California architect and entrepreneur Charles Durrett, who has designed 50 cohousing communities across America. We also commemorate the 50th anniversary of Woodstock.

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Politics
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Risk Management and Mass Shootings

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Annie Searle
August 13, 2019

The risk explored here today is that of mass shootings. The question is whether we are doing all that we can to mitigate that risk – and whether, beyond some very straightforward laws that could be put in place, it is even possible to mitigate the risk. 

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Science
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The True Nature of Science

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Rongqing Dai, Ph.D.
August 12, 2019

When awed by the aura of science, most people, scientists and non-scientists, have never seriously thought about what science really is and what the limit of science would be. Even philosophers, who are supposed to offer answers to questions of this kind are generally very confused about what science really is. This confusion itself is not a trivial matter as many scholars might have thought so, because of the crucial position of science in the civilization, which is indeed the source of the erroneous exaggeration of the role of science beyond its true nature.

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Tech & Science
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Beyond Artificial Intelligence: The Bionic Brain

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Peter Corning
August 08, 2019

Beyond Artificial Intelligence:  The Bionic Brain Elon Musk is on to something.  Could this be a road to utopia? Or not.

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Books
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The Doris Foley Library in Nevada City, California—Prospecting for Gold

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Patricia Vaccarino
August 08, 2019

This month, Patricia Vaccarino writes about the Doris Foley Library in Nevada City, California.

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Startups
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Five Things to Do Before Launch

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Ron Flavin
August 06, 2019

Five Things to Do Before Launching a New Innovation or a New Product....

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Arts & Culture
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NOTES FROM THE WORKING-CLASS: On the Road to Woodstock

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Patricia Vaccarino
August 05, 2019

You didn’t need a road map or directions to get to Woodstock. An incredible buzz traveled through the air.  By some eyewitness accounts, a “half-a-million-strong” got together on Sam Yasgur’s Farm to hang out and listen to great music. 

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World Views
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Re-learning How to Play Global Chess: What Would Winston Churchill Do?

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Peter Corning
August 05, 2019

There is a potentially effective international response to the rise of China as a superpower, but it will require a twenty-first century Winston Churchill with vision.  In the next decade, China is likely to challenge the United States in many ways.  Winston Churchill understood the crucial value of cooperation against a common foe.  A twenty-first century Winston Churchill, with a keen eye on the global chess board, might see the proposed “Global Government Initiative” as an opportunity to create a new political alliance.

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