Some noise has been made lately about the imminent redundancy of the job of physician, thanks to the ascendancy of artificial intelligence (AI) medical technology. The latest volley in the discussion comes via a JAMA essay, terrifyingly titled, "Will Autonomous AI Exceed AI-Aided Physicians ...
The school field trip tragedy last week at Lake Macbride State Park again demonstrated the adage that a rumor can travel halfway around the globe while the truth is still putting on its shoes. Government silence during a public crisis or mass-casualty event creates an information vacuum that ...
In 1867, the United States purchased Alaska from the Russian Empire for $7.2 million. The deal was widely ridiculed. Critics called it "Seward's Folly," after the secretary of state and lead negotiator, William Seward. In hindsight, given the state's immense natural resources and strategic ...
The New York Times writer Nikole Hannah-Jones thought she was making her educational choices to favor the interests of black people, and she was -- just the wrong ones. In a long essay for The New York Times Magazine, the radical African American journalist writes about how her decision to ...
Election time is upon us again. If you are like my family, you may find many of the ads, flyers, and TV commercials to be unbelievably negative and false. This robs us of good candidates by making people who are considering running for office hesitate to do so. Excuses such as “Someone else ...
The concerns that I have heard concerning data centers are: power, water, noise, non-local ownership, and jobs. Power: Most of Marshalltown receives power from Alliant Energy, and a few get their power from Consumers Energy. Iowa has many other power generation facilities. All of these ...
