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...music of two singers who work in Chinese-occupied Tibet and whose CD's are hot sellers: Yadong, who sings of the beauty of his homeland, and Kunga, a young heartthrob loved as much for his voice as for his boyish good looks. "Their lyrics are very clever," says Losel. "They might seem to sing of natural beauty, but often there's a hint of loyalty to His Holiness [the Dalai Lama], or of brotherhood between Tibetans around the world, or such issues that the Chinese government does not allow you to talk about." (See pictures of Tibet's struggle...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: One Year After Protests, an Enforced Silence on Tibet | 3/9/2009 | See Source »

...such a scenario, the artificial intelligences would recursively self-teach, gaining abilities the designers could not imagine. Irving John Good described this possibility in 1965: “Let an ultraintelligent machine be defined as a machine that can far surpass all the intellectual activities of any man however clever. Since the design of machines is one of these intellectual activities, an ultraintelligent machine could design even better machines; there would then unquestionably be an ‘intelligence explosion,’ and the intelligence of man would be left far behind. Thus the first ultraintelligent machine...

Author: By Kiran R. Pendri | Title: Futurology 2 | 3/8/2009 | See Source »

...away that Ace bandage for free? This at least is efficient. But communication the other way, from billing to medical, will take place too. And this is more ominous. The doctor should tell the biller what he found and did. But that EMR program can easily be a very clever, covert way for the biller to tell the doctor what to say he found and did. We don't simply write whatever we want in an electronic chart: we must select from predetermined choices. And these choices offer an open invitation to hyped-up diagnosis and inflated bills...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Electronic Medical Records: Will They Really Cut Costs? | 3/5/2009 | See Source »

...people who we are looking to come to our events are the sort of people who would think that was funny,” Stein says. “We try to be funny, and clever, and creative...

Author: By Kate A Borowitz, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Get Down, Light Up | 3/5/2009 | See Source »

...first single, “People Got a Lotta Nerve,” which begins as a lively pop tune reminiscent of the cheerful, British ballads of The Smiths. The laidback guitar riff and cheery melody flow effortlessly into the bridge, where sudden chord changes, varying vocal register, and clever lyrics full of internal rhymes result in an unexpected divergence. The instrumental fade out adds an eloquent touch to the end of the song. In “This Tornado Loves You,” the raw force of Case’s melodies breaks out of its cage...

Author: By Matt E. Sachs, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Neko Case | 3/5/2009 | See Source »

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