Deborah Lindsay Williams
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Vanity Fair, Elon Musk, AI, and Frankenstein’s (unexpected) Monster

by Deborah Quinn | Apr 28, 2017 | Children, Education, Feminism, Gender, Politics, tech life

Vanity Fair magazine recently ran a profile of Elon Musk that focused on the ways that Musk is at odds with other tech gurus about the relative merits of artificial intelligence (AI). Musk, who thinks that A.I. is humanity’s biggest threat, is quoted as saying...

How do we raise “global citizens” ?

by Deborah Quinn | Jul 6, 2016 | Abu Dhabi, Children, Education, growing up, Kids, World Moms Blog

“Global citizen” is a phrase I’m hearing a lot lately. That’s what we’re all supposed to be aiming towards–at least, those of us who didn’t vote for “Brexit” or aren’t in favor of the Trumpian wall. ...

Commencement Time, or what does a dinosaur have to do with the liberal arts?

by Deborah Quinn | May 22, 2015 | Abu Dhabi, Education, NYUAD, The National, UAE

It’s graduation time all over the US and in Abu Dhabi, NYUAD students are readying themselves for the same ritual.  And as students prepare to march across all manner of stages and listen to all manner of speeches, it seems appropriate to think about what we...

Gender Gap in Silicon Valley…

by Deborah Quinn | Nov 29, 2014 | Children, Education, Feminism, tech life, Uncategorized

So the other day I was reading The New Yorker — the actual magazine, not the tablet version. I hate reading magazines electronically. They force me to read chronologically, when for me some of the joy of reading a magazine is flipping through the pages and...

happy birthday, gloria steinem. I wish you didn’t matter.

by Deborah Quinn | Mar 26, 2014 | aging, Education, Feminism, Gender, Politics

Gloria Steinem spoke at my college graduation back in 1986. At the time, as a graduate of a woman’s college, I thought to myself “oh good lord, her. Couldn’t they find someone more relevant?”  It was the era of “divest now” and...

in defense of poetry, with apologies to Percy Shelley

by Deborah Quinn | Nov 13, 2013 | Books, Education, language, NaBloPoMo, reading, teaching, writing

I spent about six weeks this semester teaching and talking about poetry with my students.  Almost to a person, they started the term with “eh…I don’t much like poetry,” and “I don’t get poetry,” and “what the hell is...
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