Bhavya Chowdhury Number of words: 356 Their latest attack was unusually sophisticated from a technical perspective, with new malware code added to the original Zinc software that allowed the infection to worm its way automatically from computer to computer. Once replicated, the code encrypted and locked a computer’s hard disk, then displayed a ransom ware message demanding … Read more
Number of words: 421 On October 30, the Washington Post published a story that set the industry’s hair on fire: “NSA Infiltrates Links to Yahoo, Google Data Centers Worldwide, Snowden Documents Say.” The story was co-authored by Bart Gellman, a journalist I had known and respected since he wrote for the Daily Princeton an at … Read more
Number of words: 621 The nation’s first such crisis occurred a little more than a decade after the Constitution was signed. It was 1798 when a “quasi war” broke out between the United States and France on the Caribbean Sea. The French, wanting to pressure the United States to repay loans made by its overthrown … Read more
Number of words: 253 Throughout human history innumerable attempts have been made to discover ultimate goals that would give meaning to experience. These attempts have often been very different from one another. For instance, in the ancient Greek civilization, according to the social philosopher Hannah Arendt, men sought to achieve immortality through heroic deeds, whereas … Read more
Number of words: 189 If we were to interpret the lives of animals with a human eye, we would conclude that they are in flow most of the time because their perception of what has to be done generally coincides with what they are prepared to do. When a lion feels hungry, it will start … Read more
Number of words: 750 One fact that does seem clear, however, is that the ability to make order out of chaos is not unique to psychological processes. In fact, according to some views of evolution, complex life forms depend for their existence on a capacity to extract energy out of entropy—to recycle waste into structured … Read more
Number of words: 84 But no social change can come about until the consciousness of individuals is changed first. When a young man asked Carlyle how he should go about reforming the world, Carlyle answered, “Reform yourself. That way there will be one less rascal in the world.” The advice is still valid. Those who … Read more
Number of words: 450 Teenagers are physiologically mature beings, ripe for sexual reproduction; in most societies (and in ours too, a century or so ago) they are considered ready for adult responsibilities and appropriate recognition. Because our present social arrangements, however, do not provide adequate challenges for the skills teenagers have, they must discover opportunities … Read more
Number of words: 899 Until a few decades ago, families tended to stay together because parents and children were forced to continue the relationship for extrinsic reasons. If divorces were rare in the past, it wasn’t because husbands and wives loved each other more in the old times, but because husbands needed someone to cook … Read more
Number of words: 1,002 There is no question that we are social animals; only in the company of other people do we feel complete. In many preliterate cultures solitude is thought to be so intolerable that a person makes a great effort never to be alone; only witches and shamans feel comfortable spending time by … Read more
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