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David Stearns must remember Mets’ big picture at trade deadline

Everyone should have the courage to dream, including Mets fans, whose brutal 18-inning loss to the Braves this weekend should have been a good reminder to everyone to take the brakes off a little before calling this team a “console.” After the Braves won 4-0 in Queens on Saturday, Atlanta won 9-2 on Sunday to […]

Tucson Keeps Missing the Bigger Picture

Estimated Reading Time: 4 minutes That’s especially so on immigration, Amazon, and the minimum wage. The Tucson establishment often misses the bigger picture in the pursuit of transitory feel-good measures. Take the subjects of immigration, Amazon, and the minimum wage—subjects that I don’t have ideological or partisan heartburn over but do care that Tucson is […]

Oldest known picture story is a 51,000-year-old Indonesian cave painting | Archaeology

An international team of archaeologists has announced that the world’s oldest illustrated story is a cave painting that predates the previous record holder by some 6,000 years and was discovered on the same Indonesian island, about 10 kilometers away. The paintings, believed to be at least 51,200 years old, were discovered in the Leang Karampuang […]

An Infrared Picture is Worth a Thousand Words

Estimated Reading Time: 4 minutes Grace Hopper, a pioneering computer scientist, and Navy rear admiral once said, “One accurate measurement is worth a thousand expert opinions,” which extended W. Edward Deming’s “Without data, you’re just another person with an opinion.” But rather than relying on accurate measurements, as Thomas Sowell put it in Discrimination and Disparities, public policy is […]

Lobbying World: Motion Picture Association adds FBI alum as content protection chief

of Film Association (MPA) has hired Larissa Knapp Prior to joining MPA as Executive Vice President and Chief Content Protection Officer, Knapp served at the Federal Bureau of Investigation for 27 years, most recently leading the National Security Division as the bureau’s fourth-highest ranking official. Janeth Simla Head of National Security Government Relations ImmutableSimler joins […]