Andrés Miguel Rondón: How to Culture Jam a Populist in Four Easy Steps: in one way, Donald Trump and Hugo Chávez are identical: they are masters of Populism. (more)

The Defense Authorization Bill For 2008 included the Kyl Lieberman Amendment which smells equivalent to the vote giving George W Bush to start the War On Iraq, this time for Iran. (more)

There hasn't been an actual Intelligence Authorization Act passed in five years. (more)

scandal during George W Bush administration, where "someone" leaked to multiple Journalism types that Joseph Wilson's wife Valerie Plame was a CIA agent. (more)

The Chan-Zuckerberg Initiative is buying the Meta science Search Engine, and will make its tool free to all in a few months after enhancing the product... By taking Meta out of the commercial space and refocusing ans maximizing its value, CZI could solve one of science’s biggest problems for a much wider community. Simply put, there’s far too much research for any one scientist or even a whole team to keep up with. 2,000-4,000 papers are published each day about biomedicine alone, yet it’s hard to search across them or figure out which are the most reputable. Meta, formerly known as Sciencescape, indexes entire repositories of papers like PubMed and crawls the web, identifying and building profiles for the authors while analyzing who cites or links to what. It’s effectively Google PageRank for science, making it simple to discover relevant papers and prioritize which to read. (more)

Google Ventures, prev JotSpot, prev one of the founders of Excite. (more)

author, Lean Entrepreneur

Adam Nash was the President and CEO of Wealthfront from January 2014 to October 2016.[1][2] Nash previously served as an executive in residence at Greylock Partners, vice president of product management at LinkedIn, director at eBay and held strategic and technical roles at Atlas Venture, Preview Systems and Apple. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adam_Nash_(executive) (more)

Adam Nash (LinkedIn, now Wealth Front) gave a presentation on HowTo be a Great Product Leader (Product Manager). (more)

The Likely Cause of Addiction Has Been Discovered, and It Is Not What You Think (more)

Foreign Policy of constraining the growth of a competitor/aggressor (more)

reducing/eliminating government and/or civic interaction with other countries/cultures (more)

aka nonintervensionism, Non Interventionism (more)

Socrates (/ˈsɒkrətiːz/;[2] Greek: Σωκράτης [sɔːkrátɛːs], Sōkrátēs; 470/469 – 399 BC)[1] was a classical Greek (Athenian) philosopher credited as one of the founders of Western philosophy. He is an enigmatic figure known chiefly through the accounts of classical writers, especially the writings of his students Plato and Xenophon and the plays of his contemporary Aristophanes. Plato's dialogues are among the most comprehensive accounts of Socrates to survive from antiquity, though it is unclear the degree to which Socrates himself is "hidden behind his 'best disciple', Plato".[3] Through his portrayal in Plato's dialogues, Socrates has become renowned for his contribution to the field of ethics, and it is this Platonic Socrates who lends his name to the concepts of Socratic irony and the Socratic Method, or elenchus. (more)

Classical Greek Philosopher (more)

cf Dark Ages

The phrase the Dark Ages (or Dark Age) is most commonly known in relation to the European Early Middle Ages (from about A.D. 476 to about 1000)... Other terms of periodization have come to the fore: Late Antiquity, the Early Middle Ages and the Great Migrations, depending on which aspects of Culture are being emphasized. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dark_Ages

Aristotle (/ˈærɪˌstɒtəl/;[1] Greek: Ἀριστοτέλης Greek pronunciation: [aristotélɛːs], Aristotélēs; 384–322 BC)[2] was a Greek philosopher and scientist born in the city of Stagira, Chalkidice, on the northern periphery of Classical Greece. His father, Nicomachus, died when Aristotle was a child, whereafter Proxenus of Atarneus became his guardian.[3] At seventeen or eighteen years of age, he joined Plato's Academy in Athens[4] and remained there until the age of thirty-seven (c. 347 BC). His writings cover many subjects – including physics, biology, zoology, metaphysics, logic, ethics, aesthetics, poetry, theater, music, rhetoric, linguistics, politics and government – and constitute the first comprehensive system of Western philosophy. Shortly after Plato died, Aristotle left Athens and, at the request of Philip of Macedon, tutored Alexander the Great beginning in 343 BC.[5] (more)

Alexander III of Macedon (20/21 July 356 BC – 10/11 June 323 BC), commonly known as Alexander the Great (Greek: Ἀλέξανδρος ὁ Μέγας, Aléxandros ho Mégas Koine Greek: [a.lék.san.dros ho mé.gas] ), was a king (basileus) of the Ancient Greek kingdom of Macedon[a] and a member of the Argead dynasty. Born in Pella in 356 BC, Alexander succeeded his father, Philip II, to the throne at the age of twenty. He spent most of his ruling years on an unprecedented military campaign through Asia and northeast Africa, and by the age of thirty he had created one of the largest empires of the ancient world, stretching from Greece to northwestern India.[1][2] He was undefeated in battle and is widely considered one of history's most successful military commanders.[3] During his youth, Alexander was tutored by the philosopher Aristotle until the age of 16. After Philip's assassination in 336 BC, Alexander succeeded his father to the throne and inherited a strong kingdom and an experienced army. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_the_Great

way to identify a "special" word by prefixing with a hash '#'. (more)