by Tom | Nov 19, 2009 | Reading
Sometimes The Big Picture is depressing, because all of the photos are far better than you could ever imagine taking. Certainly true of these animal photos. I particularly liked the pygmy hippos: …the paddleboarding next to a whale… …and the Gaza...
by Tom | Nov 17, 2009 | Business, Government, Reading
Surowiecki has a couple of articles looking at banking and debt. He wonders if the crisis has meant that banks have become bigger, or at least the ones that we feel comfortable using. Seperately, he suggests (and I think rightly) that we are predisposed to use debt...
by Tom | Nov 13, 2009 | Reading
I think Sholto is right on two fronts: that the first female mufti could be the thin end of a wedge towards equality for women in Islam. Secondly that any change to the status of women in Islamic practice needs to come from within Islam, rather than imposed from...
by Tom | Nov 10, 2009 | Government, Reading
So Goldman’s (other banks are included) is getting swine flu vaccine ahead of medical staff. I guess that is because it is doing God’s work, unlike the medical staff. Clearly, this could be a sensible use of large employers as a distribution channel (they...
by Tom | Nov 9, 2009 | Reading
Very thought provoking interview and follow ups: are we modifying our cognition? For example, will people (mostly the current younger generation) who are used to high quality predictive services (Amazon, iTunes Genius) see the world differently? Given what we know...
by Tom | Nov 6, 2009 | Reading
I’ve never seen a Royal de Luxe production, but I want to! Here’s The Berlin Reunion.
