by Tom | Sep 7, 2011 | Reading
Course schedule open, online and ready for the studying thereof. Nice.
by Tom | Sep 7, 2011 | Business, Reading
It’s Not A Mirror, It’s A Crystal Ball takes a look inside TechCrunch and explains how their news reporting works and how it is different from traditional publishing. An interesting read on management style, disclosure and our craving for news.
by Tom | Sep 7, 2011 | Business, Government, Reading
Very useful historical perspective and analysis of the current recession in the West. Summary: with the “rich” taking a wildly disproportionate cut of many countries’ income, the “middle class” (non-rich, non-poor) have run out of avenues...
by Tom | Sep 7, 2011 | Reading
I was surprised that I hadn’t really thought this through before: we clearly do things to babies that we would not tolerate doing to adults without their permission (e.g. take blood, deny them property rights). I understand that newborns would find it hard to...
by Tom | Sep 7, 2011 | Reading, Science, View
NASA releases stunning new moon-landing snaps. So sad that a large part of the era of manned space exploration is temporarily on hold. The pictures are gobsmacking.