Search for: "The Irresistible"
Results 361 - 380
of 1,417
Sort by Relevance
|
Sort by Date
8 Jan 2018, 1:53 pm
Chances are you’ll find one part of that future–social credit scoring–both appalling in principle and irresistible in practice. [read post]
1 Jan 2018, 7:00 am
As the first year of Donald Trump’s presidency ends, his Chief of Staff affirms that his administration is not meant to be like any that came before it. [read post]
26 Dec 2017, 12:56 pm
Intoxication always seems like such an irresistible thing to test, because it's so easy to slip into a hypo. [read post]
12 Dec 2017, 4:59 am
The greater your need to belong and be popular, and the stronger your brain’s reward centres respond to your reputation being enhanced, the more irresistible is the site’s siren song. [read post]
11 Dec 2017, 1:16 pm
” — Walter Isaacson “Irresistibly charming, acclaimed legal scholar Sunstein writes partly as a rigorous academic and partly as a helpless fanboy as he explores our fascination with Star Wars and what the series can teach us about the law, behavioral economics, history, even fatherhood. [read post]
4 Dec 2017, 3:16 pm
Technology Irresistible: The Rise of Addictive Technology and the Business of Keeping Us Hooked by Adam Alter The Future of Violence by Benjamin Wittes and Gabriella Blum The Imagineers of War by Sharon Weinberger (a history of DARPA) Weapons of Math Destruction by Cathy O’Neil China The Hundred-Year Marathon by Michael Pillsbury On China by Henry Kissinger North Korea Nuclear Showdown by Gordon Chang Escape from Camp 14 by Blaine Harden The Aquariums of… [read post]
1 Dec 2017, 1:10 am
But the technique has proven to be irresistible, especially as globalization itself has reduced the centrality of the state as a key political and economic actor. [read post]
28 Nov 2017, 2:15 am
“The ideas of liberty and equality have been an irresistible force,” Stevens wrote. [read post]
24 Nov 2017, 12:01 am
Sean McMeekin, Professor of History at Bard College, argues that the Russian Revolution(s) of 1917 are misunderstood in the West because we have been influenced by the many accounts (such as Ten Days That Shook the World by John Reed) that examine the upheaval using the concepts and the vocabulary of Marxist sociology and economics. [read post]
14 Nov 2017, 12:00 pm
“Striking Power” argues that these new weapon technologies enable new—and in the hands of combatants, likely irresistible—possibilities in the means and methods of warfare. [read post]
11 Nov 2017, 6:28 am
Adam Alter’s shocking book “Irresistible: The Rise of Addictive Technology and the Business of Keeping Us Hooked” Chris argues that this is national crisis worthy of a Congressional hearing like the tobacco industry’s cultivated addictive powers conducted by consumer hero Senator Ron Wyden. [read post]
9 Nov 2017, 3:41 pm
However, if one of our political parties continues to view elite universities the way the current Republican party does**, the political logic of further raising taxes on elite-school endowments to defray future revenue needs could be irresistible. [read post]
7 Nov 2017, 6:30 am
The freedom of this type of work combined with a hefty salary can be irresistible, at first glance. [read post]
29 Oct 2017, 7:00 am
Given all this, UNESCO was an irresistible target for an administration primed to strike an easy blow against biased, corrupt, and expensive globalism. [read post]
27 Oct 2017, 10:07 am
Some prosecutors, at both the state and federal level, find it almost irresistible to engage in misconduct when prosecuting child sexual abuse cases. [read post]
25 Oct 2017, 7:36 pm
For many new judges there is something irresistible about banning people from their courtroom. [read post]
21 Oct 2017, 7:38 am
I don't know — Marlon Brando, Bette Davis — I mean back in the day when we loved weirdness, real weirdness, not canned weirdness like Megyn Kelly pretending to find the beat to some overproduced pop music irresistible and just had to get up and dance....ADDED: "You Can't Sit Down" was a hit as an instrumental — by the Phil Upchurch Combo — in 1960. [read post]
15 Oct 2017, 9:01 pm
Given their nearly unbroken record of futility and failure, the conclusion is irresistible that the commissions are all symbol and no substance. [read post]
11 Oct 2017, 4:23 pm
The BRB instead held that the “irresistible impulse” standard was applicable. [read post]
11 Oct 2017, 4:23 pm
The BRB instead held that the “irresistible impulse” standard was applicable. [read post]
