Showing posts with label economics. Show all posts
Showing posts with label economics. Show all posts
Friday, August 8, 2014

TED Talk for Mature Audiences - Dismal Science, Disappointing Careers

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For many years now, Economics has been known as the " dismal science ". So, who better than a (Canadian) economist to deliver a ...
Wednesday, July 23, 2014

Danger Lurking in the Plastic Packaging of our Food?

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I stumbled across this article from a web site unfamiliar to me: http://www.care2.com/causes/if-plastic-bags-are-causing-infertility-in-pig...
Saturday, April 26, 2014

Penny for NASA?

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If you've been paying attention to the social media, you may have noticed that there's a lobbying group called "Penny for NASA...
Saturday, April 19, 2014

Bill Gates TED Talks - Ideas Worth Sharing

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Bill Gates is the well known founder of Microsoft. I'm not a fan of Bill nor of Microsoft. I am an advocate for "open source...
Friday, May 17, 2013

Education Automation - R. Buckminster Fuller

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A few months ago, in response to one of my "education" tagged blog posts, an old friend from high school contacted me via Faceboo...
Saturday, December 8, 2012

Yucca Mountain Post-Mortem

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It is clear to me that the US needs more domestic sources of energy. Fracking to get more natural gas, perhaps at the price of ruining under...
Thursday, October 8, 2009

Financial engineering

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Financial engineering Re-engineered to Smithereens is interesting reading. Linkedin.com pointed me to the piece via a posting there by the...