When it comes to control, the Chinese government doesn’t mind wiping out a few dozen billion dollars in market cap here and there. That’s not a great system.
Racism In European Football Kicked Into Spotlight
The lid has come off of Euro-football after Italian fans insisted on making racist monkey gestures/sounds directed to AC Milan star-player, Kevin-Prince Boateng, in a ‘friendly’ game Jan 2 against team Pro Patria. (here) It seems that the German-Ghanai…
Aaron Swartz: 1986 -2013
There are some rare people who are driven to put it all on the line for what they believe – despite the risks. Swartz was one of those people. As an independent researcher, I often ran into the closed doors he fought so hard to prop open. Thanks. RIP.P…
Drive: The Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us by RSAnimate
James C. CollierREAD MOST RECENT POSTS AT ACTING WHITE ACTING BLACK… Technorati Tags: Drive: The Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us by RSAnimate, Dan Pink, Stop Motion, White Board Animations, TED Animations, Acting White
Vitamin D and Cancer in African-Americans
H/T The Breviary (here). Differences in vitamin D status may account for unexplained disparities in cancer survival rates between African and White Americans Authors: William B. Grant and Alan N. Peiris View affiliations Abstract: Considerable dispa…
The End Of The University As We Know It
by Nathan Harden”In fifty years, if not much sooner, half of the roughly 4,500 colleges and universities now operating in the United States will have ceased to exist. The technology driving this change is already at work, and nothing can stop it. The f…
Responding to Newtown, Aurora, Blacksburg, et al
I watched President Obama’s speech at the Newtown Memorial last night. My college and high school-aged kids and some of their friends and cousins were there too. It gave me a chance to not only consider how to pick myself up after such a senseless trag…
Obama Shares Moment With Young Team
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Jezebel Exposes Young Bigots In-Training
Young people are known for mixing up the sequence “ready, aim, fire” to something more akin to ready, fire, uh…aim”, but Tracy Egan Morrissey, over at Jezebel has certainly taken some of the kiddies to ‘school’ on how responsibility goes hand-in-hand…
Obama’s Winning Ground Game Revealed
There has been much talk on the losing side of the presidential election about the Obama “Ground Game”. By example, losing VP candidate Paul Ryan (R) of Wisconsin focused (here) on what he called “record-breaking turnout numbers from urban areas”, cod…