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Some web pages that have caught our eye - a mish mash of stuff we liked and loathed, agreed with and took against...
Fri, 16 May 2008 22:50:38 GMT
Since January 1, 2002, [Trojan Horse] analysts appeared or were quoted as experts more than 4,500 times on ABC, ABC News Now, CBS, CBS Radio Network, NBC, CNN, CNN Headline News, Fox News, MSNBC, CNBC, and NPR.
2008-05-14T10:36:43Z
tA list of things that are younger than Republican Presidential candidate (oh, and did I forget to mention "war hero"?) John McCain
2008-05-13T09:38:36Z
In our interviews with brand managers, we often notice that while they think of consumer loyalty to a brand, they do not think of a brand as loyalty to its consumers. Consumers become aware of this one-sidedness.
2008-05-12T16:16:47Z
"Education reformers ought to resist unreflective support for elegant-sounding theories, derived from the study of economic activity, that don't produce verifiable results in the classroom."
2008-05-12T10:48:51Z
"The coordinator of WHO's global influenza program, Keiji Fukuda says the threat of pandemic influenza has not diminished and the timing remains a matter of speculation."
2008-05-12T08:14:43Z
Across Spain, France and Italy, young middle-class professionals with good degrees and diplomas are facing a lifetime on low salaries with unrewarding jobs, forever poorer than their parents.
2008-05-11T16:48:00Z
They told the suspicious working girls they were people of restricted growth working with a traveling circus, and as State law does not allow those with disabilities to be discriminated against they had no right to refuse them.
2008-05-10T11:35:59Z
That's right: the US government is cutting loose one of its best analysts of al-Qaeda's use of the internet in order to save money which doesn't even amount to a rounding error in the Pentagons budget.
2008-05-10T11:32:02Z
Obama has created a number of significant infrastructure pieces through his campaign, displacing traditional groups the way he promised he would by signaling the end of the old politics of division and partisanship.
2008-05-09T11:57:04Z
In 1961, I participated in a famous experimental study about obedience and authority — although I and other participants were led to believe it was a study of memory and learning. The experiment was designed by Stanley Milgram.
2008-05-07T16:06:45Z
Who does what on the web - US users
2008-04-27T14:05:08Z
An exploration of human emotion, in six movements
2008-04-25T15:49:39Z
Attorney General Michael Mukasey warned Wednesday that organized criminal networks have penetrated portions of the international energy market and tried to control energy resources.
2008-04-25T12:43:56Z
"We may be hard-wired to treat fairness as a reward," said study co-author Matthew D. Lieberman, UCLA associate professor of psychology and a founder of social cognitive neuroscience.
2008-04-23T12:33:59Z
"In 2006, Al-Qaeda released a big position paper and they warned their supporters against creating their own content. They said this was 'media exuberance' and that their supporters should let the official distribution and production groups handle this."
2008-04-23T08:28:30Z
In a national campaign subject to opposition research, his analytical musing has instead created an immense amount of political flak.
2008-04-15T11:30:14Z
I thought I should say some more about the "mega-region" issue — specifically, why I'm not as convinced as Richard Florida that encouraging mega-region growth is the right idea.
2008-04-15T08:18:30Z
"The lieutenants get picked but not by me," explains Torvalds. "Somebody who gets things done, and shows good taste - people just start sending them suggestions and patches. I didn't design it this way... This is the way people work naturally."
2008-04-14T16:44:59Z
What fifty years of science tells us about behaviour modification.
2008-04-12T10:59:42Z
Calling the situation "untenable" and describing Windows as "collapsing," a pair of Gartner analysts this week said Microsoft must make radical changes to the operating system or risk becoming a has-been.
2008-04-11T17:53:38Z
Sispread allows to simulate the dynamics of an hypothetic infectious disease within a contact network of connected people. It is intended to help people concerned by public health to easily perform epidemic simulations and to analyze their results.
2008-04-11T16:05:00Z
In industry after industry, companies have created growth by following--explicitly or implicitly--the patterns of disruptive innovation. These "disruptors" redefine performance. Here are 10 companies that have emerged as disruptive leaders.
2008-04-11T11:39:03Z
"You must never confuse faith that you will prevail in the end – which you can never afford to lose – with the discipline to confront the most brutal facts of your current reality, whatever they might be."
2008-04-08T13:54:02Z
"Our research supports that there would be worldwide destruction. It demonstrates that a small-scale regional conflict is capable of triggering larger ozone losses globally than the ones that were previously predicted for a full-scale nuclear war."
2008-04-08T07:20:46Z
It's trivially easy to do a brand search on Tweetscan and create a feed for any new postings. Twitter is the place where conversations are exploding well before they even make it to mainstream blogs.
2008-04-07T14:58:51Z
Passive Survivability is the idea of building with extended power/fuel outages and natural and human disasters in mind. These are buildings that stay at 50-55o F without heating or cooling, that may even provide their own water.
2008-04-07T13:29:07Z
Experts explain the theory and practice of climate modeling and discuss how climate predictions should be interpreted and used.
2008-04-06T17:20:17Z
Barton M. Biggs, the former chief global strategist at Morgan Stanley. Yet in Mr. Biggs's new book, "Wealth, War and Wisdom," he says people should "assume the possibility of a breakdown of the civilized infrastructure."
2008-04-06T14:33:15Z
This hyper-emphasis on counterinsurgency puts the American Army in a perilous condition. Its ability to fight wars consisting of head-on battles using tanks and mechanized infantry is in danger of atrophy.
2008-03-09T17:06:24Z
"Is Obama inside Hillary's OODA loop?"
2008-03-05T18:57:43Z
At least in one case, the Washington Post reports, the online attackers messed with an electrical grid, disrupting ing power in several cities.
2008-03-02T20:22:22Z
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