Kappa Beta Phi’s membership remains a roster of Wall Street power brokers past and present, including New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg and New Jersey Gov. Jon Corzine, two more no-shows at this year’s dinner. Mary Schapiro, President-elect Barack Obama’s nominee to head the Securities and Exchange Commission, is also a member, as is former Goldman [...]
Edward Bernays – while you may not have heard of him (and that is assuming you did not see the video embedded in a recent post which went off-topic) – has touched your life either directly or, as he would prefer it, indirectly. From his pioneering 1928 publication, Propaganda: We are governed, our minds are [...]
I was discussing the would-have-been proto-disaster “Y2K” was made out to be with a friend when the subject of the “Dead Hand” system came up – interestingly enough, there is less and less information to suggest that the Soviet retaliatory system was a hoax. There are even some compelling arguments that the Cold War specter [...]
There is an indestructible rumor that in piano concertos the piano is tuned a little sharp so that it will sound more brilliant on its entrance and so that can allow the strings leeway to rise in pitch as the concert progresses. – The Opera Companion by George Martin, Everett Kinstler Virtuous circle and vicious [...]
Ten myths regarding information seeking: Only “objective” information is valuable More information is always better Objective information can be transmitted out of context Information can only be acquired through formal sources There is relevant information for every need Every need situation has a solution It is always possible to make information available or accessible Functional [...]
The constant hum of a computer fan and the metronome-like tapping of the keyboard should lull me to sleep, though no sleep is forthcoming. I started on the fool’s errand of calculating all possible MD5 hashes and gave up after storing about three million unique hashes over the course of forty or fifty minutes – [...]
The US Army’s expensive and dubiously-successful Human Terrain Program should be of interest to you as an internet user. I am still putting together the compelling argument to your “Why?” however, in the meantime, consider the Human Terrain Team Handbook (2008): Human Terrain comprises the entire spectrum of society and culture. This should be the [...]
After two years, 46 percent of Alzheimer’s patients taking the anti-psychotics were alive, versus 71 percent of those not on the drugs. After three years, only 30 percent of patients on the drugs were alive, versus 59 percent of those not taking drugs. In the United Kingdom and the United States, guidelines advise doctors to [...]
“While fourteen thousand lethal doses [of botox] sounds like an awful number, and one imagines the toxin reconstituted from the delivery vial and deposited with great malice into a vat of dressing at a serve-yourself bar, the feat is perhaps not that cut and dried or obviously practical. [Physically], it is a vanishingly small amount, [...]
Another day, another year.
