The Coming Food Crisis: Blame Ethanol? |
- The Coming Food Crisis: Blame Ethanol?
- 2012 Olympic Opening Ceremony: A $43 Million Dollar Snooze
- 1 of 10,000: On stage at Olympic opening ceremony
- Angry Chinese occupy government office, smash computers in environment protest
- Turkey urges steps as shelling of Aleppo continues
- Cacophony of bells rings in London Olympics
- London Olympics: The Most Embarrassing Opening Ceremony?
- With royalty and rock, Britain opens its Olympics
- Why Would Apple Want To Invest In Twitter--Or Anything Social?
- Why We Don't Rebalance
- Jonas: Receiver Appointed By Montana Court To Take Control Of LCC Whose Interests Had Been Charged
- Fears grow over fate of Syrian city of Aleppo
- Why Twitter Needs Apple More Than Apple Needs Twitter
- Removing Judges' Bias Is Olympic-Size Challenge
- Venezuelan envoy to Kenya found strangled
- London Olympics: The Most Embarrassing Opening Ceremony?
- Shift Work Can Lead to Increased Risk of Heart Attack and Stroke
- Twitter Possibly Worth More Than $10 Billion
- What Olympic Sports Use The Most Mobile Technology?
- Medal forecasts at London 2012
| The Coming Food Crisis: Blame Ethanol? Posted: 27 Jul 2012 07:01 PM PDT A series of spikes in global food prices resulted in riots in 2008 and contributed to violent uprisings in North Africa and the Middle East in 2011. The culprit is a matter of considerable and frequently heated debate, but the most commonly cited candidates include market speculators, global warming and [...]
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| 2012 Olympic Opening Ceremony: A $43 Million Dollar Snooze Posted: 27 Jul 2012 04:25 PM PDT Danny Boyle (Photo credit: Wikipedia) The Los Angeles Times called the opening ceremony of the 2012 Olympic Games 'whimsical.' Whimsical is a nice way to put it. As my friend Andrea remarked, the Queen looked like she wished she could be transported back to Tudor England so she could behead Danny [...]
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| 1 of 10,000: On stage at Olympic opening ceremony Posted: 27 Jul 2012 02:48 PM PDT Penelope Summers is not a singer, dancer, juggler, clown, stunt biker or roller skater. She's a 34-year-old sales project manager.
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| Angry Chinese occupy government office, smash computers in environment protest Posted: 27 Jul 2012 11:06 PM PDT QIDONG, China (Reuters) - Angry demonstrators occupied a government office in eastern China on Saturday, destroying computers and overturning cars in a violent protest against an industrial waste pipeline they said would poison their coastal waters.
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| Turkey urges steps as shelling of Aleppo continues Posted: 27 Jul 2012 10:53 PM PDT AMMAN/BEIRUT (Reuters) - President Bashar al-Assad's artillery continued to pound rebel-held areas in and around Aleppo in preparation for an onslaught on Syria's biggest city, while neighboring Turkey called for international steps to deal with the military build-up.
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| Cacophony of bells rings in London Olympics Posted: 27 Jul 2012 10:00 AM PDT
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| London Olympics: The Most Embarrassing Opening Ceremony? Posted: 27 Jul 2012 06:32 PM PDT Video The firework display of the glowing rings in the brief video above was thrilling and well-executed, but otherwise, this evening's opening ceremony from the Olympics in London was positively cringe-inducing. I'm sure some of the less self-conscious performers were having a good time, but some must have wondered why they [...]
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| With royalty and rock, Britain opens its Olympics Posted: 27 Jul 2012 04:51 PM PDT
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| Why Would Apple Want To Invest In Twitter--Or Anything Social? Posted: 27 Jul 2012 06:03 PM PDT Apparently, Apple has talked with Twitter about investing several hundred million dollars into the company. Depending on whether you accept the New York Times' version or the later Wall Street Journal's version, Apple discussed the investment in recent months or last year, though there are no talks currently. (A little bird must have told them.) Either way, I [...]
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| Posted: 27 Jul 2012 06:01 PM PDT I've written a number of articles on the benefits of rebalancing. So it was interesting to read Research Affiliates' CIO On "Why We Don't Rebalance" which read in part: The reason it's so hard for investors to rebalance, says Hsu, is less about "behavioral mistakes" and more about "the [...]
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| Jonas: Receiver Appointed By Montana Court To Take Control Of LCC Whose Interests Had Been Charged Posted: 27 Jul 2012 05:45 PM PDT So if a debtor puts assets into an LLC, the only thing that the creditor can do is to get a charging order against the debtor's LLC interest, right? After all, this is what the common marketing materials for LLCs promise is the asset protection result, so it must be [...]
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| Fears grow over fate of Syrian city of Aleppo Posted: 27 Jul 2012 12:29 PM PDT International concern was mounting Friday over a looming massacre as Syrian troops bombarded the besieged city of Aleppo with artillery, strafed it with aircraft and pulled in major reinforcements ready to crush the outgunned rebels.
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| Why Twitter Needs Apple More Than Apple Needs Twitter Posted: 27 Jul 2012 04:55 PM PDT Maybe it shouldn't be a surprise that Apple -- known for its go-it-alone ways -- would need a little help getting social. However, news the Cupertino, Calif., Mac and iPhone maker isis contemplating an investment in Twitter could be exactly what the social networking service needs after larger rival Facebook's difficult [...]
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| Removing Judges' Bias Is Olympic-Size Challenge Posted: 27 Jul 2012 10:11 PM PDT Statisticians who have delivered their own judgments on the state of Olympic judging have a troubling message for fans of such sports as gymnastics, diving, boxing and dressage: There is no surefire way to remove national bias from the results.
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| Venezuelan envoy to Kenya found strangled Posted: 27 Jul 2012 09:37 PM PDT Olga Fonseca Gimenez found dead at her official residence in Nairobi less than two weeks after arriving at the embassy.
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| London Olympics: The Most Embarrassing Opening Ceremony? Posted: 27 Jul 2012 04:25 PM PDT Video The firework display of the glowing rings in the brief video above was thrilling and well-executed, but otherwise, this evening's opening ceremony from the Olympics in London was positively cringe-inducing. I'm sure some of the less self-conscious performers were having a good time, but some must have wondered why they [...]
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| Shift Work Can Lead to Increased Risk of Heart Attack and Stroke Posted: 27 Jul 2012 04:23 PM PDT General Hospital: Night Shift (Photo credit: Wikipedia) According to results of a new study published in the BMJ, working the night shift or any odd-hours shift other than a regular day schedule may increase your chances of suffering a heart attack or stroke. Research in the past decades has already linked [...]
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| Twitter Possibly Worth More Than $10 Billion Posted: 27 Jul 2012 04:18 PM PDT According to a report in the New York Times Friday night, Apple is apparently in talks with Twitter to invest hundreds of millions of dollars into the social network, which would value Twitter at more than $10 billion. The report cites only people "declined to be named because the discussions were private." [...]
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| What Olympic Sports Use The Most Mobile Technology? Posted: 27 Jul 2012 04:00 PM PDT High-tech training has obviously been around for years and infiltrated many sports. But the London 2012 Olympics is a showcase for how mobile has also infiltrated modern athletics.
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| Medal forecasts at London 2012 Posted: 27 Jul 2012 03:55 PM PDT According to the Olympic Charter the games are about individual human achievement, but every newspaper knows better and so compulsively publishes medal counts. A small industry has also developed in the medal count prediction business. This site links to a number of the main competitors. There are basically two methods, [...]
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