Tag: Martin Luther King

  • Monopolies Make Spying Easier

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    TIM WU explains why monoplies make spying easier in The New Yorker magazine: These days, America has one dominant search engine, one dominant social-networking site, and four phone companies. The structure of the information industry often goes unnoticed, but it has an enormous effect on the ease with which the government spies on citizens. The remarkable…

  • Carl Sagan on Science and Spirituatlity

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    by Maria Popova “The notion that science and spirituality are somehow mutually exclusive does a disservice to both.” The friction between science and religion stretches from Galileo’s famous letter to today’s leading thinkers. And yet we’re seeing that, for all its capacity for ignorance, religion might have some valuable lessons for secular thought and the two need not be regarded as opposites.…