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Living la vida loca at Sonia Sotomayor’s official swearing in: The five-minute ceremony was witnessed by President Barack Obama, several U.S. senators who supported her nomination, current and former Justice Department officials, pop star Ricky Martin, Justice Sotomayor’s family and a number of officials and luminaries. Via Sotomayor is Formally Sworn in as Supreme Court [...] Dickson D Despommier (someone’s parents didn’t like them) has been drinking some pretty strong Kool-Aide based on his recent NYTimes article. He advocates building vertical farms directly in cities, as a way to reclaim farm land for nature, feed billions more people, use less water, green cities, and allow for more people to eat local. [...] I was reading about a paper that attempted to create a “food network” to explain covariance in commodity prices, when something in the abstract caught me: A better understanding of the fluctuations in commodity prices would have significant ramifications across broad disciplines. The Network Science Center at the United States Military Academy is interested in [...] This article may change your mind: Op-Ed Contributor – ‘Peak Oil’ Is a Waste of Energy – NYTimes.com Mind Hacks has an article trying to explain why the placebo effect has been growing stronger over the last few years – a great reminder that sometimes historical data gets tainted as recording and testing procedures change over time. For example, we know that better designed and higher quality studies show smaller drug effects. This [...] Even though the question is one of Amazon’s most important features, it’s impressive how understated its introduction was. One day, for many of Amazon’s users (but not all), it just showed up. It was one of many changes occurring on the site that month. Most users didn’t notice it for weeks and few understood how [...] Reading through the NY Times today, I got quite the shock when I read this: Last week, Congress and the White House released their summer budget updates, touching off a flurry of headlines and commentary suggesting President Obama’s agenda would produce deficits exceeding a total of $9 trillion over a decade. Others said $2 trillion. [...] When I first started tracking my spending, for example, I discovered that 70% of it was going towards eating out. In one final move of disgust, I wanted to kill myself by buying a bag of cheetos and stuffing every single morsel in my mouth at once. I would then ask Alanis Morrisette to give [...] A great article about who and what actually brought down AIG and started the financial fizzle we’re in. It’s a way more direct and straightforward look than anything I have seen yet. I also like that it points out when AIG made mistakes and when they were made scapegoats. For those of you who want [...] |
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