by Tom | Aug 8, 2014 | Personal, Reading
Two very sad but interesting perspectives on society’s treatment of women. I’m all in favour of reclaiming words* that have some negative connotations . Can we do it with feminism? (*Aside: my take on “bossy” is that we should call boys it if...
by Tom | Aug 7, 2014 | Hong Kong / China, Reading
Very interesting to read that Hong Kong has a  substantially skewed population of women to men (1,000 women to 864 men) and this is widening. This includes domestic helpers who are predominantly female: the ratio is 1,000 to 938 without domestic helpers. (Aside: it...
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by Tom | Jul 22, 2014 | Reading, Science
This is beyond awesome. Steganography is the art of hiding something in something else. It is most often used to refer to hiding information in digital images in such a way that the image is not altered to the human eye. This is useful because viewers don’t...
by Tom | Jun 26, 2014 | Business, Reading
Fascinating paper, well worth reading in depth. The summary is that it is pretty well impossible for most companies to run an effective experiment to test whether advertising spend works or not. Classical theories of the firm assume access to reliable signals to...
by Tom | Jun 1, 2014 | Business, Government, Reading, Science
Some amazing stats on water use in Israel following the worst rainfall in years. This is massive. 30% of potable water from desalination rising to 40% in 2015 90% of waste water recycled for agricultural use Max $500 each year for a family’s needs for...
by Tom | Jun 1, 2014 | Reading
Or is that moron gun control. Yes. ‘No Way To Prevent This,’ Says Only Nation Where This Regularly Happens http://www.theonion.com/articles/no-way-to-prevent-this-says-only-nation-where-this,36131/
