Column: How to make ghosts out of machines
By Ben Crawford | Dec. 4, 2014The tendency to create ghosts in machines is a natural byproduct of living.
The tendency to create ghosts in machines is a natural byproduct of living.
It’s been a week since the Ferguson grand jury declined to indict Darren Wilson and the controversy shows no sign of going away.
There are a series of mental traps one can find oneself in when thinking about helping people in other countries.
The South Carolina National Guard has approached grad students in the Darla Moore School Business for a new marketing campaign to up their dwindling enlisting numbers.
Food and sex are two of the most basic human needs, so utilizing both in advertisements is a logical decision on the part of ad companies, but it is largely detrimental to mental health, physical health and the attempt to create equality between the genders.
I think it’s safe to say that, not a single person lost (or, god forbid, gave) their life so that a secular Jew in South Carolina would go to synagogue. Anyone who says so is trying to use an incomprehensible event for their own reasons.
In the end, USC is more than the sum of its parts, and it’s certainly more than its football team.
But despite all the shortcomings this season may have provided, the future is still very bright for Carolina, and it’s highlighted at the skill positions.
Late last week, the USC board of trustees went ahead with plans to give Assembly Street another shiny new building in 2016, continuing the long streak of construction projects and renovations which have characterized the past few years.
For the ancient Greeks and Romans, heavenly bodies were not the sorts of objects to which one anchors a craft.
In Clay Travis’ November 16th column on Fox’s Outkick The Coverage, he wrote about the injuries of Todd Gurley and Marcus Lattimore, and how it was “immoral” that the NFL’s age restrictions preventing them from going pro early.
Like most things that should have happened a long time ago, the fact that it’s taken so many decades for a black person to become Fraternity Council president is more of our reflection of our past failures than the achievement at hand.
By the time I walk away from a story, that story is yours.
If the president is allowed to make his own laws because he doesn’t agree with Congress that sets a very bad precedent.
Thanksgiving is just around the corner and Christmas follows close behind.
Our top military leaders decided it was preferable to lie to the American people, risking the lives of the soldiers under their command in the process, than to remind us that America was once allied with Saddam Hussein and had supplied him with the chemical weapons he used to kill thousands of his own people.
There are a few sure-fire developments that we like to see on campus: more beds, less drunk driving accidents and a variety in terms of where students can choose to live.