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Cook Ross Unconscious Bias

Harvard University has created a massive database from online testing for “Implicit Preference.” Unconscious bias is our innate neurological filtering process that allows us to quickly assess “safety” from “danger” Our task in a...

Current Creativity Exercise

 I’m participating in a six-week Stanford University online creativity class involving 30,000 people from all over the world organized into creative teams. This week’s assignment is to “be more attentive.”  Specifically, we are to...

Prowlng for the Gaffe

I just read an article in the Los Angeles Daily Journal [“Binders Full of Platitudes” – Oct. 22, 2012, p.5] by Eric Kingsley of Kingsley and Kingsley, noting what a terrible “gaffe” Mitt Romney committed with the stated that he obtained “binders of...

Playing the Odds: Duran Duran

What are the odds the Supreme Court will overturn the Court of Appeal in any randomly selected case coming before it?  The Justices may just be more able to provide that probability analysis after its review of Duran v. U.S. National Bank Association 203...
The Censor:  He Has a Face, and He is Us.

The Censor: He Has a Face, and He is Us.

Face to Face:  Social Media and the Masks We ShareFor those intrepid few who dare to express themselves as indiscreetly as the English language will allow, there is AB 1844, soon to be officially Labor Code Section 980 et seq.  The California legislature has...