Beyond Macau: Manila, Korea, Bahamas Openings Highlight Key Asia Gaming Trends
Runway Manila connects the airport to Resorts World Manila for pedestrians, in response to the airport expressway to Entertainment City.…
Facebook’s new anti-fake news strategy is not going to work – but something else might
Have you seen some “tips to spot fake news” on your Facebook newsfeed recently? Over the past year, the social…
The triumph of Alexander Gauland
SOME political parties have a habit of airing their dirty linen in public. The right-wing Alternative für Deutschland (AfD) is…
What France’s election means for Germany
IN MAY 2012 a freshly elected François Hollande took off for Germany on his first foreign visit as president, determined…
2017/04/21: Disinvited to Linfield College: My response
In February of 2017, I was invited to speak at Linfield College (http://www.linfield.edu/), a small liberal arts institution in McMinnville,…
The First Batch of Seshat Data
It’s been a long haul. Six years ago we launched the project that we eventually named Seshat: Global History Databank.…
Nintendo Switch Breaks Sales Records at Nintendo! What Does This Mean?
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2017 Personality 18: Biology & Traits: Openness/Intelligence/Creativity I
In this lecture, I talk about Big Five trait openness to experience, which is the dimension composed of an amalgam…
Global Casino Industry Juiced For Japan
Melco Resorts and Entertainment’s Lawrence Ho invested US$3.2 billion on Macau’s Studio City and says he’ll spend “whatever it takes”…
Why we don’t trust robots
Robots raise all kinds of concerns. They could steal our jobs, as some experts think. And if artificial intelligence grows,…
Who is Peter Altmaier and why does he matter?
IF YOU pass the vast, glass-walled chancellery in Berlin at night, you will often see a solitary room illuminated high…
A.I. is Progressing Faster Than You Think!
Was hacked, I’ll have to rewrite this later. Sources: https://deepmind.com/blog/wavenet-generative-model-raw-audio/ https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B3cxcnOkPx9AeWpLVXhkTDJINDQ/view?pageId=100077358973363715310 The Nintendo Switch’s left Joy-Con connection issues are hardware…
Government Plays Casino Numbers Game In Australia’s Queensland
Star Entertainment and and its partners are investing US$3 billion in Queensland integrated resorts, including the icon Arc with its…
A primer on the AfD wars
IT IS a well-established truth that fast-rising political parties outside the political mainstream are prone to division. The National Front…
A political audit of Martin Schulz
SHORTLY after his emergence as the SPD’s candidate for chancellor, Martin Schulz was interviewed on “Anne Will”, one of Germany’s…
2017/04/06: Dr Jordan B Peterson Chats with Some Black Guy
I had a good conversation with Derrick Pilot, better known as Some Black Guy (http://bit.ly/2eZ9xqb). We first talked about protests,…
2017/02/25: Postmodernism: practice and pathology
I gave a talk on postmodernism and its dangers at the Manning Conference in Ottawa February (www.manningcentre.ca/conference) on a panel…
The Black Death and Inflation
Following a lead from Mark Koyama’s twitter I arrived at the blog of Scott Summer, where I learned that heterodoxy…