Business… How to Succeed in American Business 11 Jul 2011 Teaching in a multicultural environment often includes overtly explaining American business culture and helping students practice that language. For starters, there's the direct eye contact, the body language, the smiling,…
Advertising… Your Brain on Ads 14 Jun 201114 Jun 2011 Take a therapist who trained her daughter to watch media, including ads, with critical attention. Now imagine this daughter, Maya Cueva--already a journalist while still a teenager--not only applying that…
Change the World… Copyright Honor 7 Jun 20117 Jun 2011 One of my alma maters is known for the strictest of honor ©odes. To matriculate, we signed our allegiance to academic integrity and high standards of personal ©onduct. From time…
Blogging… A Word about Copyright 2 Apr 201122 Apr 2011 My composer son believes in copyright karma. In high school, while pirated music surrounded him, he could have played his iTunes around the clock for two weeks straight without duplicating a track,…
Blogging… Some Lawyers Can Write 21 Mar 2011 If you've ever wondered how privacy issues would be handled on Krypton with its x-ray vision, or whether the statute of limitations applies in cases of time travel or suspended…
Brain… What We Learn from Watson 23 Feb 201125 Feb 2011 My interest in IBM's Jeopardy-winning Watson was initially syntactical. It has taken decades to teach computers to understand and speak a human language almost as well as your average three-year-old.…
Fact-Checking… Carbon Dating for Books 8 Feb 20118 Feb 2011 You could always date a movie by the women's hair and make-up. You can date a book by the technology. Recently I've been teaching with a fifth edition textbook. That's…
