Stories by petethomas

Brian May, guitarist for Queen, completed Ph.D. after 30-yr hiatus (2008)

Babylonians discovered astronomical geometry 1400 years before Europeans

Alt.pave.the.earth (1994)

Age of Abundance: How the Content Explosion Will Invert the Media Industry

Paul Krugman Reviews ‘The Rise and Fall of American Growth’ by Robert J. Gordon

Wall Street Urged by Key Utility to Mull Upgrade to Blockchain

H-1B Worker Takes Suit Against CGA Law to High Court

Employee Wellness Programs Use Carrots And, Increasingly, Sticks

Hawking: Humans at risk of lethal 'own goal'

Education and underemployment in the age of machine intelligence

IMF Staff Discusion Note- Virtual Currencies and Beyond: Initial Considerations [pdf]

The Polaroids of the Cowboy Poet

Physicist George Ellis Knocks Physicists (2014)

Davos: Robots, new working ways to cost five million jobs by 2020

New book argues we can’t expect new tech to rekindle rapid economic growth

Sarah Parcak, Space Archaeologist

Overdoses Propel Rise in Mortality Rates of Young Whites

"Customers are likely to see regressions with Windows 7 ongoing servicing"

The Iron Logic of Gordon Gekko

A look at asm.js and the future with WebAssembly