Holding the Tokyo Olympics amid the covid pandemic threat is about corporate revenue, not the athletes
Holding the Tokyo Olympics amid the covid pandemic threat is about corporate revenue, not the athletes
TOKYO — When Tokyo staged the Olympics in 1964, the Games marked Japan’s reemergence from the ashes of defeat in World War II and symbolized its readmission in the post-war international order. It was a moment of immense national pride. The Games also crowned what author Robert Whiting calls “the greatest urban transformation in history.” Thousands of buildings were put up in a furious rush, new s
T o get some perspective on the earthquake that struck the country to which I moved last year, I hiked a mile and a half Wednesday morning from our house to the Great Buddha of Kamakura, the most famous attraction of this town on the southwest outskirts of Tokyo. Serenity washes over me every time I gaze at the 44-foot, 13th-century bronze statue. I'm not spiritual, much less a Buddhist. But I wen
Samuel Arbesman, an applied mathematician and network scientist, is a senior scholar at the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation and the author of "The Half-Life of Facts." Follow him on Twitter: @Arbesman. Big data holds the promise of harnessing huge amounts of information to help us better understand the world. But when talking about big data, there's a tendency to fall into hyperbole. It is what c
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