This illustrates how new technologies enable phenomena which are not as revolutionary as some people like to claim.

True, they are making an impact and they can be important, and from time to time there are genuine novelties, but most things that are nauseatingly overhyped these days are something old but "on a computer!".

Social media, for example, was trumpeted as enabling the Arab Spring, and, yes, it's role was significant, but it was not qualitatively different from movements that in the past used audio tape, telegraph, letters, printing press, people sailing, people walking, etc.

No, his response should have been proportional.

Bullying is always cowardice, not retribution or even justice.

Health care unavailable due to cost might as well not exist at all.

The oil would be liberated. Why would the embargo be affected?

US foreign policy towards Iran is based on Iran having a revolution that asserted its independence, rather than meekly accepting being a pseudo-colony.

This shows that the claims of Google have been overhyped, but while I have no reason to trust Google, I have to wonder if the fault is Google or the people who pretend to be journalists.

Self-interest. Nothing more.

I doubt he even understands what remorse is, only that a guilty plea is a good strategy when there's very little hope of acquittal.

The problem with the science surrounding nutrition is that for a long time the people investigating nutrition were not scientists, and later actual scientists were handicapped by the poor state of the art. So studies would compare diets where one had a higher salt content than the other, but simply put variables were not controlled, and as it turns out the other differences between the samples vastly outweighed the supposed independent variable.

High-salt foods are typically, but not exclusively, unhealthy highly processed foods of poor nutritional value. That is a real statistical correlation even though the salt itself is not the issue.

his unemployment is not a mystery.

That just doesn't work from a PR perspective. Many people's value system will reject any kind of overt entitlement.

Call it a dividend, on the basis that a citizen is a kind of shareholder in the national economy. Which has the added benefit of being correct.

Sometimes it's just a title, but a project manager who is actually doing project management has a very busy and vital job with well-defined responsibilities.

The purpose of the policy is not economic or ideological, it is to punish a country that chose to stop being an US colony and actually exercise the independence that was only supposed to be on paper.

Cuba is hardly a model of economic progress or human rights, but that's not the reason.

Very much like Iran.

Plants might not be intelligent enough to realize that until too late (for us).

But... but... I saw it on TV once!

This is a city where cars are at risk of being run down by pedestrians - a "one way" street has a lot of pedestrian flow in both directions.