Curated articles from various sources.
The Economist reports on Finland’s role in the Euro Crisis: It has least to gain from a grand bargain to save the euro – and that could prove to become a big problem. As things currently stand around the Finn Red Line, Finland’s finance minister, Jutta Urpilainen, caused a stir when she said that her country…
ByTED
Magician Keith Barry could be thought of as a hacker of the human brain. He writes routines that exploit the brain’s bugs and loopholes, and offers a revealing look at the software between our ears. In this thought-provoking TED talk, he shows us how our brains can fool our bodies — in a trick that works via podcast…
“Servants to the Cause” by XONITEK’s Joseph Paris & continued media coverage of the Operational Excellence Society. Published in Lean Management Journal in the September 2012 issue. Download PDF
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Computer programmer John Graham-Cumming keeps geek history alive by raising awareness for it’s heroes and their inventions. In this revealing TED talk, he takes us back in history to the time when computer science first began – the 1830’s. He tells the story of Charles Babbage’s mechanical, steam-powered “analytical engine” and how Ada Lovelace, mathematician…
Gone are the days when Beijing was considered one of the more pleasant capitals of the world. Something terrible and life-threatening is literally overshadowing its parks, centuries-old palaces, history and culture. The grey fog which is covering Beijing is caused by copious amounts of chronic air pollution, which now ranks the city as one of the worst…
Chesapeake Energy and its CEO, Aubrey McClendon, have been the public face of the U.S. shale gas revolution, which is as celebrated for its role in transforming energy geopolitics as it is feared for the potential environmental impacts of its key technology – hydraulic fracturing, or ‘fracking.’ Now, allegations of scandal at Chesapeake, the nation’s…
