Dan Duquette, long-time Red Sox general manager, rises to IBM’s challenge to match his team against the latest in personal robots.
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John Tenniel's illustration of Alice meeting Tweedledum and Tweedledee
A very strange place, indeed
“Goodness,” thought Alice to herself, “what a very strange place this is.”
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Mr. Computer opens his letter bag
Dear Mr. Computer, my husband Vernon stays up late every night, sometimes til 3 or 4 in the morning, “cruising the information highway,” as he calls it.
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World’s too big, Santa scaling back
Dear Friends, it is with considerable regret that I announce that this is the last year I will make my traditional rounds with reindeer and sleigh.
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There’s no order like birth order
Frank Sulloway thinks he has discovered the driving engine of history: birth order.
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A new angle on peace and patience
LegPull Press has just published “The New Compleat Angler” by Izaak Walton XII.
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Drivers take byte out of computer
The newspaper recently ran a story about a computer traffic model developed by MIT traffic researchers that is being used by the builders of the Central Artery/Third Tunnel project to find trouble spots that may need redesigning.
The flying toasters screen saver • Image by Mark Mathosian (CC BY-NC-SA 2.0)
Mr. Computer explains it all to you
Dear Mr. Computer,
All of my friends are urging me to buy a “screen saver” for my computer.
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America’s not-so-natural wonders
Natural and artificial are increasingly difficult to distinguish.
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Anna Logue: Unplugged and unabashed
I knew the moment I touched the doorbell that this interview was going to be different.