Origins of the Etruscans: Was Herodotus right? (Published 2007)
Geneticists have added an edge to a 2,500-year-old debate over the origin of the Etruscans, a people whose brilliant and mysterious civilization dominated northwestern Italy for centuries until the rise of the Roman republic in 510 B.C. Several new findings support a view held by the ancient Greek historian Herodotus - but unpopular among archaeologists - that the Etruscans originally migrated to
Google Adds to Its Menagerie of Robots (Published 2013)
Boston Dynamics’ four-legged robot named WildCat can gallop at high speeds.Credit...Boston Dynamics SAN FRANCISCO — BigDog, Cheetah, WildCat and Atlas have joined Google’s growing robot menagerie. Google confirmed on Friday that it had completed the acquisition of Boston Dynamics, an engineering company that has designed mobile research robots for the Pentagon. The company, based in Waltham, Mass.
Opinion | Profits Without Production (Published 2013)
One lesson from recent economic troubles has been the usefulness of history. Just as the crisis was unfolding, the Harvard economists Carmen Reinhart and Kenneth Rogoff — who unfortunately became famous for their worst work — published a brilliant book with the sarcastic title “This Time Is Different.” Their point, of course, was that there is a strong family resemblance among crises. Indeed, hist
Opinion | Lumps of Labor (Published 2003)
Economists call it the ''lump of labor fallacy.'' It's the idea that there is a fixed amount of work to be done in the world, so any increase in the amount each worker can produce reduces the number of available jobs. (A famous example: those dire warnings in the 1950's that automation would lead to mass unemployment.) As the derisive name suggests, it's an idea economists view with contempt, yet
Opinion | Sympathy for the Luddites (Published 2013)
In 1786, the cloth workers of Leeds, a wool-industry center in northern England, issued a protest against the growing use of “scribbling” machines, which were taking over a task formerly performed by skilled labor. “How are those men, thus thrown out of employ to provide for their families?” asked the petitioners. “And what are they to put their children apprentice to?” Those weren’t foolish quest
Next Big Thing in English: Knowing They Know That You Know (Published 2010)
To illustrate what a growing number of literary scholars consider the most exciting area of new research, Lisa Zunshine, a professor of English at the University of Kentucky, refers to an episode from the TV series “Friends.” (Follow closely now; this is about the science of English.) Phoebe and Rachel plot to play a joke on Monica and Chandler after they learn the two are secretly dating. The cou
Opinion | Raise That Wage (Published 2013)
President Obama laid out a number of good ideas in his State of the Union address. Unfortunately, almost all of them would require spending money — and given Republican control of the House of Representatives, it’s hard to imagine that happening. One major proposal, however, wouldn’t involve budget outlays: the president’s call for a rise in the minimum wage from $7.25 an hour to $9, with subseque
Opinion | Jobs, Productivity and the Great Decoupling (Published 2012)
Cambridge, Mass. A WONDERFUL ride has come to an end. For several decades after World War II the economic statistics we care most about all rose together here in America as if they were tightly coupled. G.D.P. grew, and so did productivity — our ability to get more output from each worker. At the same time, we created millions of jobs, and many of these were the kinds of jobs that allowed the aver
Opinion | Japan Steps Out (Published 2013)
For three years economic policy throughout the advanced world has been paralyzed, despite high unemployment, by a dismal orthodoxy. Every suggestion of action to create jobs has been shot down with warnings of dire consequences. If we spend more, the Very Serious People say, the bond markets will punish us. If we print more money, inflation will soar. Nothing should be done because nothing can be
Opinion | Internet Access Is Not a Human Right (Published 2012)
Reston, Va. FROM the streets of Tunis to Tahrir Square and beyond, protests around the world last year were built on the Internet and the many devices that interact with it. Though the demonstrations thrived because thousands of people turned out to participate, they could never have happened as they did without the ability that the Internet offers to communicate, organize and publicize everywhere
Whimsical Texting Icons Get a Shot at Success (Published 2011)
“Instead of saying ‘I love you,’ I’ll just use a heart,” said Alicia Fernandez, a college student, who uses emoji when she texts.Credit...Uli Seit for The New York Times Say you wanted to invite a friend to happy hour. You could send a simple text message, but that would be boring. Instead, why not send a cartoony picture of two clinking beer mugs? That’s the kind of thing Alicia Fernandez, a stud
Google’s Chief Works to Trim a Bloated Ship (Published 2011)
MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. — Larry Page, Google’s chief executive, so hates wasting time at meetings that he once dumped his secretary to avoid being scheduled for them. He does not much like e-mail either — even his own Gmail — saying the tedious back-and-forth takes too long to solve problems. Mr. Page has never been more impatient than he is now. He is on an urgent mission to pull Google through a m
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Blockchain: A Better Way to Track Pork Chops, Bonds, Bad Peanut Butter? (Published 2017)
George Orwell’s ‘1984’ Is Suddenly a Best-Seller (Published 2017)
Opinion | Hitting China’s Wall (Published 2013)
In India, Online Retailers Take a New Tack (Published 2011)