Limits and Conscientious Consumption “According to various news reports and studies, child slavery is endemic in West Africa’s cocoa plantations, particularly in Cote d’Ivoire, the source of 35 percent of the world’s chocolate.”
Monthly Archives: October 2012
Geographic History Enjoys a Renaissance : The New Yorker
2012.10.28 – 15:29
Geographic History Enjoys a Renaissance : The New Yorker “That a modern state was searching, at great expense and at a cost to its own war effort, to find a fifteen-year-old girl in an attic in Amsterdam in order to get her on a train bound for a concentration camp in Poland showed something new […]
Michigan bridge saga a lesson in two democracies
2012.10.27 – 10:20
Michigan bridge saga a lesson in two democracies
RadioShack Is Doing Something Better Than Any Other Retailer
2012.10.26 – 21:49
RadioShack Is Doing Something Better Than Any Other Retailer “The firm found that RadioShack’s average time responding to customer calls was just three seconds. That compares with two minutes for Ikea and three minutes for Apple.”
Blog: Svbtle Featured: Moneyball for Votes
2012.10.26 – 18:53
Moneyball for Votes Jason Putorti, Svbtle Featured
Blog: The American Conservative » Rod Dreher: ‘War, The Great Leveler’
2012.10.26 – 08:26
‘War, The Great Leveler’ Rod Dreher, The American Conservative » Rod Dreher
Still playing moneyball: An exclusive interview with Billy Beane – Athletics Nation
2012.10.25 – 11:21
Still playing moneyball: An exclusive interview with Billy Beane – Athletics Nation “Farhan was saying it the first month of the season and then May 1 he sent a long email, which was a ‘Moss Manifesto’, basically with a lot of statistical analysis saying that we needed to give this guy a chance.”
Blog: Seth’s Blog: The only purpose of ‘customer service’…
2012.10.25 – 09:06
The only purpose of 'customer service'… Seth Godin, Seth's Blog
Why Things Fail: From Tires to Helicopter Blades, Everything Breaks Eventually | Wired Design | Wired.com
2012.10.24 – 21:39
Why Things Fail: From Tires to Helicopter Blades, Everything Breaks Eventually | Wired Design | Wired.com “Models tend to assume components that are identical in their material composition. The result is that virtual components tend to fail at the same time in every simulation. But actual failures will occur in that bell-shaped distribution. If you […]
Do You Have The Placebo Gene?
2012.10.24 – 19:09
Do You Have The Placebo Gene? “More generally, it seems like a big step toward understanding the biology of the placebo effect — and other human behaviors”
YouTube: Richard Phillips Feynman – The Last Journey Of A Genius
2012.10.24 – 17:11
Richard Phillips Feynman – The Last Journey Of A Genius metunalioglu
Blog: Marginal Revolution: *The Bretton Woods Transcripts*
2012.10.24 – 11:51
*The Bretton Woods Transcripts* Tyler Cowen, Marginal Revolution
Blog: THE BOOK–Playing The Percentages In Baseball: Brooklyn Islanders move from Nassau County
2012.10.24 – 11:16
Brooklyn Islanders move from Nassau County Tangotiger, THE BOOK–Playing The Percentages In Baseball
Transcript: The Future of Marriage
2012.10.24 – 11:11
Transcript: The Future of Marriage “See, because if I don’t have any doubt, I don’t need you. I should be nice to you out of manners, but I don’t need a relationship with you. I may want you to be available to be lectured by me so that you can come to the correct view […]
Learnable Programming
2012.10.24 – 09:35
Learnable Programming “The design principles presented in this essay can be used as a checklist to evaluate a programming system for learning.”
Frans Johansson: how ‘luck’ can be used to enhance success
2012.10.24 – 09:17
Frans Johansson: how ‘luck’ can be used to enhance success “The 10,000 hours practice rule only works in a field like tennis where the rules don’t change.”
Flickr: Crosley Field
2012.10.24 – 07:39
Crosley Field by Darth Bengal Unfortunately this picture is in horrible condition, but it does give a good idea of what Crosley field looked like from the stands.
Flickr: Crosley Field
2012.10.24 – 07:39
Crosley Field by Darth Bengal I removed the worst scratches from this photo. It still doesn’t look great, but it is a lot better than it was. Taken by my father over 60 years ago.
Flickr: Iraq
2012.10.23 – 23:25
Iraq by slagheap Pfc. Preston Snook leans back and waits for his pitch during a pick-up baeball game on Camp Fallujah’s sandlot baseball field. Marines from Regimental Combat Team 5 gather weekly to play ball, a way to releive the stress of being deployed and relive their dreams of one day being a Major League […]