The current forecast for the H1N1 virus seems quite grim. Referred to originally as “swine flu” last spring, it has already spread to more than 180,000 cases worldwide, and shows no sign of slowing anytime soon. The President’s Council of Advisors on Science and Technology has predicted that 30 to 50 percent of the nation’s population could eventually be infected, with up to 90,000 deaths if the virus mutates into a more aggressive version.
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Alec Ross is changing diplomacy. The Senior Advisor on Innovation to Secretary Clinton studies the distribution of power from government to the people. And he’s noticed something about the relationship […]
Following the successful end-runs of popular and critically-acclaimed HBO programs the Sopranos, Sex and the City, and The Wire, speculation ran rampant in the television industry about how the pay-TV […]
In today’s Science, the team behind the Phoenix Lander mission published four studies giving an assessment of their data since the lander died on the Martin surface last November. The […]
Despite being left out of the main competition at Cannes, Iranian cinema was recently championed as “alive and successful” by officials at the Farabi Cinematic Foundation, an affiliate of the […]
The economic spiral has seen the birth of a disconcerting social experiment. Tent cities, first on the West Coast and now in the East, are testing a new model for […]
Today is make it or break it for Gordon Brown, the embattled U.K. Prime Minister and leader of the Labour government. A rapidly evolving series of scandals is shaping the […]
Though it’s been year of scandal for two of the largest interactive sites on the web, the loose nature of open-source content has emerged unscathed. First came the Craiglist sex […]
The Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter is on its way. After a flawless launch at about 5:30 Eastern Time yesterday, NASA’s nearly $600 million satellite is en route to the moon. The […]
Harper’s senior editor and author Bill Wasik came by the studio yesterday to talk about the great liberties of the Internet, nano-narratives, short attention spans and flash mobbing a gigantic […]
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At one point during Mahalo’s presentation at an NY Tech MeetUp last week, I couldn’t help but wonder how Wikipedia would fare if it weren’t a non-profit organization that relied […]
When blue printing your SEO or Traffic strategy, it is very important to factor in algorithmic changes in search engine land. One day you can be riding high with a Ton of traffic producing a ton of money, the next day you are no where to be seen in the search engines. There are many different SEO tools that keep you ahead of the curve, so that you are prepared when it happens.
The Times’ Jeff Zeleny might have gone a bit too far with his adjectives at last night’s 100-day press conference. Zeleny asked Obama to tell the world what surprised, humbled, […]
Politicizing the federal deficit has long been a campaign maneuver to get out the votes and make the other candidate look responsible for all our financial woes. When Big Think […]
With traditional manufacturing jobs evaporating, green is becoming the color du jour around the necks of American workers. Every candidate promised the creation of green collar jobs in last year’s […]
Feeling down about your employment prospects? Don’t. It’s just as bad over at Harvard Business School. As of late April, only 81% of graduating students from the Harvard Business School […]
How many laws in Robert Greene’s “48 Laws of Power” does Leslie Gelb, the former senior Pentagon official, follow or flout?
This essay describes a model for urban development that takes into account and makes use of the externalities that exist in the built environment. Buildings and the people that inhabitat them makes neighborhoods and vice versa the value of a building is in its locations. How can better frame this relationship between an object and its environment? How can develop strategies for a integral area development that learn from the best global examples?
Is it possible for blogs to operate without the snark and juvenile potshots that have come to characterize online communication? Probably not, but that hasn’t stopped 15 Congressmen from attempting […]
Apologies for blurring thought and common sense here, but in case the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention recommendations were insufficient, we’ll add in some out-of-the-box thinking on staying healthy […]
Howard Sosin was the kind of Wall Street dealmaker who flourished in the footloose days of the mid-80s. As the founder of AIG Financial Products, he invented many of the […]
It makes sense that the world is currently in the midst of a board game boom. While America’s overall toy sales dropped 3% last year, board game sales actually increased […]
Yesterday was World Health Day, and we would be remiss to let it pass without mentioning what is perhaps the most determined team of doctors in the world, the group […]
Outside of how best to solve the current crisis, perhaps the greatest macro question of our moment is what the net effect will be on the balance of global powers […]
Americans in gun-loving states have always bought and sold their heat with gusto. In a downturn however, arms small and large are being traded like barrels of light sweet crude […]
HOW CAN ONE CONSIDER RISKS DIFFERENTLY…By © Copyright 2009 Andres Agostini (Andy) – Arlington, Virginia, USA
I hope I will be wrong and Adam Smith was right this time-there is moral businessman or businesswoman, never a George Soros or a hybrid “Solos” from China, Britain, or Russia to short sell our Banks! rnrnGod bless America!rnrn