It’s become a common occurrence in my daily conversations with people that I’m told, “You’re more trusting of social media than I am”. This sentiment is meant to convey that people value their privacy and that they don’t think everyone should share information about themselves, most of which is considered irrelevant. That I am “trusting” means that they don’t share in my beliefs about the potent...
From Jan Banning's series entitled Bureaucratics . Tags: Jan Banning photography working
looks unlike anything I've ever seen
A local business publication recently reported some happy financial news for GlassHospital.
However, if read carefully, the article contains this apparent paradox:
ER traffic is down.
Hospital admissions are down.
Revenue (and profit!) is up!
How can this be?
I mean, if this were a real business, wouldn’t less traffic and fewer ‘units sold’ equal less revenue and lower profits?
Not in Health Car...
Daron Acemoglu and Pierre Yared find that :
I wonder if this supports the idea that bilateral trade increases between countries if both free-ride off the military spending of a third benevolent hegemon.
Intel’s first 32-nanometer, six-core processor is ready for prime time. It’s clunky moniker aside, the chip called the Core i7-980X Extreme edition will offer some serious artillery for gamers and heavy multimedia users looking for a faster processor.
The chip is based on Intel’s platform codenamed “ Gulftown ” and will include features that improve on computing speed and power efficiency.
Int...
Perhaps the most ironic aspect of all the media attention in the latest criminal allegations against "Jihad Jane" is that Colleen LaRose of Pennsylvania is only the latest example of this odd emerging trend in homegrown terrorism . Indeed, LaRose is hardly alone in this category, whether we speak of London resident Samina Malik, an active user on jihadi social networking forums who busied hersel...
In January, conservative activist and guerrilla filmmaker James O’Keefe was arrested for slipping into the New Orleans offices of Senator Mary Landrieu. O’Keefe and three others were charged with “ entering federal property under false pretenses for the purpose of committing a felony” after they impersonated telephone repairmen to enter the Senator’s suite.
It wasn’t the first time O’Keefe ente...
If there is anyone that learned the branding lesson imparted by the Obama ’08 Campaign, it was John McCain. During the Presidential race there was simply nothing the McCain identity could do to help his chances, especially not Optima, not even at its boldest. Not long after the loss, McCain announced in November of 2008 that he would be running for re-election to his Senate seat in 2010 for the st...
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Researchers Alex Strick van Linschoten and Felix Keuhn talk about their lives in Afghanistan and their work translating "My Life With the Taliban," the autobiography of Mullah Abdul Salam Zaeef.