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- Inside Apple — [VIDEO]
- Mitt Romney’s taxes — [LINKS]
- A critique of Apple’s multimedia iBooks. — [LINK]
- Does Apple lack “generosity”? — [LINKS]
- Apple Education Push — [LINKS]
- Water Crystals — [DOCUMENT]
- Apple’s e-book software will allow publishers to make textbooks more interactive. — [LINKS + VIDEO]
- Alain Soral is France’s most dangerous intellectual… (dangerous for the French plutocrats, that is). — [VIDEO]
- Computers thru time — [CHART]
- NASA has finally understood the theorical basis of LENR (low-energy nuclear reactions). — [VIDEO]
- Why Samsung is no Apple — [VIDEO]
- Mitt Romney @ Bain Capital — [VIDEO]
- Central banks should set up prediction markets. — [LINK]
- Max Keiser on NADEX — [VIDEO]
- New Hampshire prediction markets screwed up political forecasting in 2008. Will they be right this time? — [CHARTS]
- The real reasons why prediction markets are accurate. — [LINK]
- Much better than a bike… and more affordable than a SegWay… –> The Me-Mover — [VIDEO]
- InTrade is not predictive, says notable financial journalist. — [SCREENSHOT]
- Drudge links directly to InTrade prediction markets, bypassing journalos. — [SCREENSHOT]
- BetFair’s glitch ruins a set of £23m prediction markets. — [LINKS]
Monthly Archives: July 2011
Vernon Smith on the housing bubble, Adam Smith, and libertarianism — [VIDEO]
Posted in Economics, Finance, The Global Economy
Tagged Adam Smith, bubbles, economic crisis, Economics, economics experiments, experimental exconomics, Finance, financial crisis, Great Depression, housing market, laboratory, libertarian, libertarianism, libertarians, Nobel Prize of Economics, real estate, real estate market, US economy, Vernon Smith
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CERN scientists are gagged from discussing the close correlation between cosmic ray penetration and temperature. — [CHART + VIDEO]
The quantity of cosmic rays has an influence on climate, but this isn’t factored into the IPCC’s consensus science. The Sun alters the climate by influencing the cosmic ray influx and cloud formation: UPDATE:
Posted in Research, Science
Tagged CERN, climate, climate change, cloud formation, clouds, cosmic rays, global warming, heat, Henrik Svensmark, Sun, temperature
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MSNBC female journalist trying to ‘educate’ a US Congressman: “Do you have a degree in economics?” – Rep. Mo Brooks (R-AL): “Yes ma’am, I do. Highest honors.” — [VIDEO]
Via RCP.
Posted in Economics, The Global Economy
Tagged Contessa Brewer, depression, Mo Brooks
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In Q1, the iPad was equal to 7% of the PC market. Now, it’s at 11%. — [LINK]
“[I]f the iPad were lined up against all other computers, it would be the fourth-biggest computer brand in the world — after HP, Dell, and Lenovo [...].
Apple stock today — [CHART]
Via Jason Ruspini. -
Posted in Business, Finance, Inventions & Innovations
Tagged Apple, Apple iOS, Apple IPad, Apple iPhone, Apple iPod, Apple Mac, Apple Mac OS, Apple Macintosh, Apple OS, computer, computers, growht, Information Technology, innovation, innovations, iPad, iPhone, iPod, Mac, Macs, Maintosh, mobile phones, mobiles, profits, revenues, smartphone, smartphones, tablet, tablet computer, tablet computers, tablet PCs, tablets
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The economics of Sea Shepherd — [VIDEO]
Posted in Politics
Tagged marine animals, marine mammals, ocean, oceans, Paul Watson, sea, Sea Shepherd, Sea Shepherd Conservation Society, seas, whales
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Apple’s initial legal victory over rival HTC in a patent infringement suit could pave the way for Apple to collect high royalties from devices running Google Android. — [LINK]
” [...] the iPhone maker could garner a deal that’s similar to or even higher than the $5 per unit that Microsoft collects on HTC Android devices.”
Posted in Business, Information Technology, Inventions & Innovations
Tagged Apple, Apple iOS, Apple IPad, Apple iPhone, Apple iPod Touch, Google Android, HTC, intellectual properties, intellectual property, iOS, iPad, iPhone, iPod, iPod Touch, patent, patent infringement suits, patents, royalties
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Scientific pointers about the Andrea Rossi’s Nickel-Hydrogen nuclear reactor (E-Cat) — [LINK]
Sergio Focardi: The nuclear reaction inside the energy catalyzer takes place once the reaction chamber is heated to 60-70 degrees C. Once this heat has been achieved, and the reaction has begun, the heat source can be removed and the … Continue reading
Posted in Research, Science
Tagged Andrea Rossi, applied research, applied science, CANR, capital, chemically-assisted nuclear reactions, chemistry, cold fusion, cold fusion reactor, cold fusion reactors, colf-fusion reactors, Defkalion, E-Cat, electrical energy, electricity, electricity plant, energy, Energy Catalyzer, growth, hydrogen, Hydrogen-Nickel cold fusion, innovation, innovations, inventions, investing, investments, LENR, Low Energy Nuclear Reaction, Low-Energy Nuclear Reactions, Low-Energy Nuclear Reactor, Ni-H cold fusion, nickel, nuclear energy, physicists, physics, power, power plant, power production, Research, Science, Sergio Focardi, startups, weak force nuclear reactions
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Foxes are better predictors than hedgehogs. OK, BUT WHY…????… — [QUESTION]
Here’s a question to my readers. Do you believe in intuition, and do you think that that’s the reason foxes are (a bit) better at forecasting than hedgehogs?