by Tom | Sep 9, 2011 | Reading, Science
Cracking Economist piece on science: The whole brouhaha over mobile phones causing brain cancer is a monumental irrelevance compared with scofflaws who insist on using their handsets to text or talk while driving. Regretfully, that is a far more likely cause of death...
by Tom | Sep 9, 2011 | Reading
Guernica / On Change in India. Interesting reflections on India’s route out of poverty. For me, I find it scarily similar it is to China’s.
by Tom | Sep 7, 2011 | Hong Kong / China, Reading
Lots of great stuff around on China recently. China doesn’t seem to be attempting to be able to compete with the US, just ensure that China is the key player in the Asia-Pacific region, not the US. Apple is doing surprisingly well in China (it will be...
by Tom | Sep 7, 2011 | Reading
Cracking piece in the Economist reflecting on the US ten years on from 9/11. Americans are eager to cut their losses after a wretched decade and turn from nation-building abroad to nation-building at home. This instinct to move on is an admirable reflex that has...
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.
