Tag: Eric

Tea with a terrorist: my encounter with “American Jihadi”, Eric Harroun

Isa and the two Gypsies were crowding around the table in the lobby of the hostel. Capo was shuffling the cards furiously and Sylvia had lit up another cigarette and glanced over to me. Isa was sitting with one of those electric water heaters plugged to an adapter, warming water for tea. “Come...

How do skills learned as a submarine officer in the U.S. Navy translate to Dropbox? Eric Wittig fills us in

At Dropbox, we believe in celebrating our veterans all year long. And every November, in recognition of Veteran’s Day, we put a special emphasis on honoring their service to their country and learning about their unique journeys to Dropbox with our Veteran’s Appreciation Month. We spoke ...

Canceling Eric Clapton: When Is Enough, Enough?

Unlike a lot of artists, Eric Clapton has a travelogue of glaring misdeeds. Clapton’s name has been associated with racism, COVID-19 denial, song theft, and general unpleasantness. After all of these years and accusations, he’s never been sorry. But do you take the off-ramp? Music fans h...

Canceling Eric Clapton: When Is Enough, Enough?

Unlike a lot of artists, Eric Clapton has a travelogue of glaring misdeeds. Clapton’s name has been associated with racism, COVID-19 denial, song theft, and general unpleasantness. After all of these years and accusations, he’s never been sorry. But do you take the off-ramp? Music fans h...

Is Eric Turkheimer a Scientist?

Eric Nathan Turkheimer, the Hugh Scott Hamilton Professor of Psychology at the University of Virginia, is much more likely to be a meretricious fraud promoting skullduggery than he is to be a scientist. He has committed himself to the misrepresentation of science, its history, and the actors within ...

Eric Weinstein: How Not to Formulate a Theory of Everything

One of the ultimate aims of theoretical physics is to arrive at a simple and consistent set of physical laws describing the universe. While this may seem to be a fanciful wish, the history of physics is one of the successive revolutions of simplification. For instance, Newton’s laws summarize ...