Some thoughts on "broader impact" statements for scientific papers

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I know that conferences like NeurIPS (formerly called NIPS) have asked for statements about ethical and "broader impact" to accomp...
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Book Review: "His Very Best: Jimmy Carter, A Life" by Jonathan Alter

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I first saw Jimmy Carter with a few other students during my first year as a graduate student at Emory University where he remains a visitin...
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Book Review: "The Jews of Spain", by Jane Gerber

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Jane Gerber’s “The Jews of Spain” is a superb and comprehensive look at the history of the Sephardim - one of the two major branches of Jewr...
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Book Review: "The Pity Of It All: A Protrait of the German-Jewish Epoch", 1743-1933, by Amos Elon

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Amos Elon’s ‘The Pity of It Al’ is a poignant and beautiful history of German Jews from 1743-1933. Why 1743? Because in 1740, Frederick of P...

Book Review: "Against the Grain", by James Scott

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James Scott's important and utterly fascinating book questions what we can call the "Whig view" of history, which goes somethi...
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Two views of America

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The United States is a country settled by Europeans in the 17th and 18th century who created a revolutionary form of government and a highly...
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A Foray into Jewish History and Judaism

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I have always found the similarities between Hinduism and Judaism (and between Hindu Brahmins in particular and Jews) very striking. In orde...
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Life. Distributed.

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One of my favorite science fiction novels is “The Black Cloud” by Fred Hoyle. It describes an alien intelligence in the form of a cloud th...
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Brains, Computation And Thermodynamics: A View From The Future?

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Progress in science often happens when two or more fields productively meet. Astrophysics got a huge boost when the tools of radio and ra...
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