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- Steven Krivit continues to trash Andrea Rossi and his LENR technology. — [LINK]
- Interview with Adam Lashinsky — [VIDEO]
- Why some people are more innovative — [VIDEO]
- Forbes editor deciphers Steve Jobs’s Apple. — [VIDEO]
- Jason Ruspini rebuts Eric Zitzewitz on the regulation of political prediction markets. — [COMMENT]
- Eric Zitzewitz petitions the CFTC in favor of real-money prediction markets about politics. — [TEXT]
- Global warming is a big scam. — [LINK]
- A Swarm of Nano Quadrotors — [VIDEO]
- The Tragedy of the Commons — [VIDEO]
- Guy Kawasaki on Steve Jobs — [VIDEO]
- 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]
Category Archives: News
Herman Cain is a great man, but his GodFather pizzas do not taste good. — [QUALITY TEST]
… “the panel unanimously voted Godfather’s Pizza the worst slice of the five.”
Posted in Business, News
Tagged food, food quality, GodFather pizzas, Herman Cain, pizza, pizzas, quality food
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The Kauffman Foundation wants a Steve Jobs Memorial on the National Mall in Washington, D.C. — [LINK]
Quite a rich idea, me thinks. On a related note, here’s Eric Schmidt on Steve Jobs. [Download this post to watch the video, if your feed reader does not show it to you.]
Ex-HSX Max Keiser claims that InTrade’s Ron Paul prediction market is manipulated. — [VIDEO]
Posted in Analysis (Market Calls), Betting, Exchange & Market Management, Exchanges & Markets, Finance, Financial Markets, Market Makers (Human), Market Prices & Probabilities, News, Politics
Tagged Alex Jones, Betting, betting markets, Collective Forecasting, Collective Intelligence, event derivative market, event derivatives, forecasting, Hollywood Stock Exchange, HSX, manipulation, market manipulation, Max Keiser, Politics, predicting, prediction market, prediction markets, radio, Ron Paul, US politics
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The Belo Monte dam project in the Amazon rainforest has been OK’ed. — [VIDEO]
NYT. BBC. Wikipedia: The Belo Monte Dam (formerly known as Kararaô) is a proposed hydroelectric dam complex on the Xingu River in the state of Pará, Brazil. The planned installed capacity of the dam complex would be 11,233 megawatts (MW), … Continue reading
Posted in Business, Ethics, Inventions & Innovations, News
Tagged Amazon, Amazon rainforest, Belo Monte Dam, Brazil, dam, dams, electricity, electricity plant, electricity plants, electricity production, energy, energy plants, energy production, enery plant, Latin America, power, power plant, power plants, power production, South America, Xingu River
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Six Italian seismologists and one government official will be tried for the manslaughter of those who died in an earthquake that struck the city of L’Aquila on 6 April 2009. — [NEWS]
“Six Italian seismologists and one government official will be tried for the manslaughter of those who died in an earthquake that struck the city of L’Aquila on 6 April 2009.”
Posted in Forecasting (Science & Practice), News, Science
Tagged 2009, earhquakes, forecasting, Italy, L'Aquila, predicting, quakes, Science, seismologists
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Grandson of famed economist Milton Friedman is sued for downloading porn over the Internet. — [LINK]
Patri Friedman: http://m.wired.com/threatlevel/2011/03/bittorrent/
Japanese nuclear disaster and Japanese press coverage — [TRUTH SOCIOLOGY]
In response to Marginal Revolution. Here’s a French journalist covering the events in Japan. My translation. I got rapidly aware that information is blocked. It is not possible to assist to press conferences or to get accredited. And our Japanese … Continue reading
Posted in Journalism, News, Philosophy
Tagged censorship, facts, Fukushima, Fukushima nuclear power plant, information, Japan, Japanese government, Journalism, journalists, Media, press, reporting, truth
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Consumers in the U.S. will soon be able to receive and send funds to any eligible Visa credit, debit or prepaid account, anywhere in the world. — [NEWS]
“Bank customers of participating financial institutions will have the option to select a Visa account as the destination for funds when making a personal payment. By simply entering the recipient’s 16-digit Visa account, email address or mobile phone number, consumers … Continue reading