About 66 million years ago, an asteroid comparable in size to Mt. Everest collided with the Earth near what is now the Yucatan peninsula. That collision brought the age of dinosaurs to an end and set the stage for the rise of mammals, including the super-predators known as homo sapiens. It was the fifth major … Continue reading Asteroids
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The Expendables
Once upon a time, my class watched the classic Hitchcock film, “Lifeboat,” in our first-year seminar course. The lifeboat was a microcosm of life. With severely limited resources, nine passengers on a lifeboat were faced with deciding who will live and who will die. Now, an algorithm might give a seriously injured man a lower … Continue reading The Expendables
