Ideas & Open Forum

Ideas & Open Forum is a place to think out loud about ideas, questions, and things worth discussing.

POLITICAL WORDS

What do these words actually mean?

Socialist. Communist. Fascist. Liberal. Conservative. These words turn up in speeches, headlines, and comment sections every day, sometimes as descriptions and sometimes as labels.

Political Words is a reference collection written to provide a common starting point: short, plain-language definitions, with an Under the Hood section for readers who want the history, research, and scholarly disagreements behind them.

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Living With AI in Healthcare

We hear a lot today about Artificial Intelligence — about the data centers, the power it takes to run them, the water it takes to cool them. We hear it dismissed as nothing to see here, and we hear it warned about as something that will take over our world.

This series won’t do either. LIVING WITH AI IN HEALTHCARE follows our earlier LIVING WITH AI series, exploring where artificial intelligence is actually fitting into our world today — this time in healthcare, something that touches every one of our lives. The first essay looks at the U.S. back office; the essays that follow widen the lens to AI in healthcare more broadly.

Before you read these essays, you might want to know how they get made.

Living With AI

Artificial intelligence is beginning to reshape many kinds of work, often quietly and unevenly.

This series is an attempt to watch that process unfold and think about what it might mean for the way people work and live.

This has been and is continuing to be quite a learning experience for me; one that I want to share with you.

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Exploring Our World Energy Story

The essays you are about to read grew out of something none of us could ignore — the closure of the Strait of Hormuz and what it revealed about how dependent the world remains on a remarkably fragile energy supply chain. Three essays became seven, and seven have become the foundation of something larger: a new series called Exploring an Energy Story Still Being Written.

A note on the images in this series: the photographs throughout MY VIEW are my own. For these essays, where the subjects range from underground salt caverns to battery chemistry to the Strait of Hormuz itself, we are using AI-generated images to introduce and illustrate the content. They are created to fit the subject, not to represent actual locations or events.

Strait of Hormuz:Oil Dependency:
1-How the World Stores Its Emergency Oil1-Realistically Reducing Our Dependence
2-How Long Can the Reserves Last2-Where Does All That Electricity Come From
3-What Comes Next3-The Hidden Cost of the EV Battery
4-Oil Dependency: The Next Generation

The Next Two Chapters In Our Energy Story

Energy PolicyEnergy Innovation (In Process)
Same Crisis, Different Bills: Who Pays for a Closed StraitNuclear’s New Shape: Small Modular Reactors
Same Technology, Different SpeedsHeat From the Earth: The Geothermal Breakthrough
The Invisible Fuel: What Hydrogen Actually Is — and Isn’t
The Promise and the Distance: 4-What Fusion Energy Actually Is Today

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On My Mind

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“No matter what anybody tells you, words and ideas can change the world.”

John Keating (Robin Williams), Dead Poets Societyohn Keating

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