Economics
My Top 10 TED.com talks
1. Jill Bolte Taylor’s stroke of insight 2. Stephen Wolfram: Computing a theory of everything 3. Temple Grandin: The world needs all kinds of minds 4. Sam Harris: Science can answer moral questions 5. Carolyn Porco flies us to Saturn 6. VS Ramachandran on your mind 7. Dan Dennett: Cute, sexy, sweet, funny 8. Adam Savage’s obsessions 9. Emily Levine’s theory of... »
Free the weed? (and tax it)
Surely we are grown up enough now to see the futility of our past lawmaking? At a time of economic turmoil, when politicians are chasing their tails around and the media following them, people are beginning to open their minds up to new ideas, new possibilities. You get all this marketing babble about , “a... »
€500,000 for ministers in house perks
The following is an exerpt from The Irish Independant dated 24th May 2009. The full article is HERE. I hope this one gains momemtum and further exposes the seedy underbelly of the Irish body politik. The days of the greasy pound note are still with us . . . “Government ministers have availed of a little-known perk... »
TEN PRINCIPLES FOR A BLACK-SWAN-ROBUST WORLD
In his “Ten Principles for a Black Swan-robust world”, NassimNicholas Taleb is on the ramparts assuming an activist role in urging us “to move voluntarily into Capitalism 2.0 by helping what needs to be broken break on its own, converting debt into equity, marginalising the economics and business school establishments, shutting down the ‘Nobel’... »
Future Times
Have a look into the furture with a 2020 edition of the Financial Times. Worth a read indeed. To enter the time warp portal, go via this link > »
Abuse of Power : Another “G” Death
photo credit: theimpressionist10@co.uk On a more serious note concerning the events surrounding the G20 meetings in London over the past week we are faced again with the issue of police brutality striking a fatal blow. The fatal shooting of Carlo Giuliani at the G8 demonstrations in Genoa was certainly a call to question the methods... »
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