Business Interests and Islamist Power in Civil War Somalia “Security costs are of critical importance to businesses in a civil war, and Islamists are uniquely competitive in lowering these costs. The business-Islamist alliance is therefore driven by rational, economic considerations, which can contribute to the rise of Islamist power.”
Monthly Archives: February 2015
Holiday tours designed specifically for introverts
2015.02.23 – 10:04
Holiday tours designed specifically for introverts
YouTube: Douglas Adams: Parrots the Universe and Everything
2015.02.18 – 11:36
Douglas Adams: Parrots the Universe and Everything University of California Television (UCTV)
Neuroscouting may give Red Sox a heads-up on prospects’ potential
2015.02.18 – 11:02
Neuroscouting may give Red Sox a heads-up on prospects’ potential
YouTube: Dr. Andrew Feenberg: Ten Paradoxes of Technology
2015.02.18 – 10:04
Dr. Andrew Feenberg: Ten Paradoxes of Technology Simon Fraser University
Artificial intelligence and nanotechnology ‘threaten civilisation’
2015.02.18 – 08:00
Artificial intelligence and nanotechnology ‘threaten civilisation’
Tweet by OrbisPeace
2015.02.16 – 15:58
pic.twitter.com/hVOCFScmk3 — World Travel Posters (@OrbisPeace) January 31, 2015 via https://twitter.com/OrbisPeace
2 Jurassic Mini Mammal Species Discovered in China
2015.02.16 – 10:39
2 Jurassic Mini Mammal Species Discovered in China “…the discovery of such diversity among early mammals suggests one of two possibilities: that early mammals originated even earlier than scientists thought, or that they diversified very quickly.”
Jonathan Ive and the Future of Apple
2015.02.16 – 08:45
Jonathan Ive and the Future of Apple The New Yorker profile of Jony Ive: Later that day, I asked Ive about an Apple design that shares the new campus’s formal simplicity: the circular “hockey puck” mouse that was included with the first iMacs. Many found it hard to control, and it is widely considered a […]
Can Violence Be Virtuous?
2015.02.16 – 01:10
Can Violence Be Virtuous? “One source of police violence is that police sometimes have very little faith in the legal system and the court system, and believe that perpetrators are likely to get off and continue to do violence. They may feel they need to take responsibility for punishing those people because the courts won’t.”
Tweet by curtismharris
2015.02.14 – 17:40
Read every bit of this – slowly but surely – read every bit: http://t.co/VZrpgEzyq1 (h/t @DexterC73) — Curtis Harris (@curtismharris) February 15, 2015 via https://twitter.com/curtismharris
Vimeo: An obsession – brutal, beautiful bus stop design of the former Soviet states
2015.02.14 – 14:31
An obsession – brutal, beautiful bus stop design of the former Soviet states Bushtaxi
YouTube: Oira No Yakyu 1931) Animê antigo
2015.02.14 – 11:52
Oira No Yakyu 1931) Animê antigo animemasterdreamer15
Tweet by ossia
2015.02.13 – 08:08
Get comfortable with abstraction. If you try to understand how everything works, you'll get nothing done. pic.twitter.com/jfsXtdIySk — Quincy Larson (@ossia) February 12, 2015 via https://twitter.com/ossia
All Parents are Cowards
2015.02.12 – 22:55
All Parents are Cowards “I never imagined that parenthood meant learning to live with this unrelenting, impaling fear. With the question of when to catch your children and when to let them fall.”
Does Scandinavia Have it All Figured Out? – The New Yorker
2015.02.10 – 23:20
Does Scandinavia Have it All Figured Out? – The New Yorker “The trouble with the Scandinavian model isn’t that there are no exceptions to sameness; it’s that exceptionalism is not something the system is set up to protect and serve. If, like the non-Western Muslims of Rosengård, you have trouble joining the national schools and […]
Tweet by fredwilson about The 40% Rule
2015.02.10 – 22:52
The 40% Rule http://t.co/5zb1B80aLe — Fred Wilson (@fredwilson) February 10, 2015 via https://twitter.com/fredwilson “Your annual revenue growth rate + your operating margin should equal 40%. So, if you are growing 100% year over year, you can lose money at a rate of 60% of your revenues If you are growing 40% year over year, you […]