Market-research leader Neilsen studied the opening and closing of retail stores nationwide between 2001 and 2008 and published the winners and losers. The most affordable consumer alternatives saw growth with […]
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What happens when you type your name into Google? How about when you click the ‘images’, ‘news’ and ‘blogs’ buttons? If you don’t know the answer, it may be time […]
As Noah Feldman shows us in “A Prison of Words,” his Times Op-Ed piece yesterday, “refinements” filed recently by the Justice Department regarding the Guantanamo Bay lawsuits showcase the subtlety […]
A wake –up Europe will say NO, NO to Americarnrn Europe traditionally has very thoughtful Philosophers. rn rn Europeans, they can think and think deeply. rn rn Why Rush Limbaugh can be a Philosopher King and King of GOP in US? Why a comedian, Jon Stewart performs the job of CBS’s 60 minutes? There must be something wrong with this country.rn rn rnrn
Know an exceptional young talent under the age of 25? Think they would be a good candidate for the web’s most engaging global thought forum? Big Think is launching a […]
Old politicians never die. Now, they don’t even have the courtesy to fade away. Are you ready for the has-been campaign of 2010? As the rest of the world recovers […]
Explaining some of my personal artistic ideas and processes
While nearly everyone knows that March 17 is St. Patrick’s Day, nobody seems to know that March 19 is St. Joseph’s Day. While there have been some traditional Italian celebrations […]
The environmentalist’s horror image of an oil spill is usually the affliction to wildlife—birds and fish coated in black crude, struggling to move or to breathe. But a study by […]
One overlooked facet amid all the upheavals spurred by the digitization of global media is how it has thrust foreign reporters into the public sphere in their once exotic foreign […]
The Darkest Age of Journalism Take 2: Cramer vs Jon Stewart
The bravest and noble Lady Katharine Graham, the late Publisher of Washington Post was long gone!
The spirit of young, hungry and innocent Bob Woodward was gone too!
As I reach the halfway point of the “threescore years and ten” years that the Book of Psalms promise to let us live, it occurs to me I have spent […]
Jon Stewart’s recent rant against—and subsequent interview with—Mad Money’s Jim Cramer was the latest incident of a comedian to initiate a thoughtful debate on a headline-grabbing issue. In this age […]
rnrnFirst it is an academic article only, at which I tried to use the Physic’s Chaotic theory, modern conditioning theory of human behavior and David X. Li’s mathematic model to predict the chance of Coup d’e tat in Pakistan.rnrn*Warning: It is only an academic guess, which was the first time to use the above- said three models to predict Coup d’e tat ! rnrn
The year 2000 was not a good time to be young and in charge, particularly in New Jersey. It was October of that year when Union City mayor Rudy Garcia […]
In March 2003, I served as a member of the prosecution team that drafted an indictment against the then-President of Liberia, Charles Taylor. The crucial role of the International Criminal […]
Are you 'reading' this oped on paper,
or are you 'screening' it online?
More bad climate news out of the journal Science—the Earth, as a whole, has been seeing less and less of the sun over the last 30 years. Maybe the global […]
The economic pinch making it harder to make ends meet and you know what that means. Crime is back in vogue! And while bad people are doing bad things all […]
I know that I just shot an arrow into the war of Atheism Vs. Christianity but if we have time can we also discuss this topic. I’m a laymen and […]
Does everyone need to suffer? Should an image of Nouriel Roubini as standard-level modelizer trouble us? Probably not. As much as we might like the idea of him holed up […]
Shall we expect a political stalemate or the largest economic rescue plan in the history of the universe next month in London? If for no one but Gordon Brown’s sake, […]
The Global Billionaires Club may be getting smaller by the minute, but there are still pockets of heavy growth. For example, Mexican drug lords are doing well. That’s why Forbes […]
What causes the Housing bubble and the result of recession! (See the cunning Greenspan, he only mentioned Housing Bubble not recession in his article! I do not buy it). ANSWER: THE PHILOSOPHICAL FLAW OF CAPITALISM!
Albert Einstein once opined, “you can’t solve a problem with the same mind that created it.” How then, can we begin to cure our global economic ailments using the same […]
Love it or hate it, broadcasting the minutiae of one’s life on Twitter has become the serial writing skill du jour. But, as the LA Times blogs, the medium is […]
A bizarre cottage industry born out of the war in Iraq carries a few lessons about humans and the economy. One, Saddam Hussein was one of the most iconic tyrants […]
Expository Essay exploring the traits of Down Syndrome, and how to predict this syndrome.
Low pricing and advertising revenue brought news to the American public175 years ago. With little variation, it’s the news model we’ve had for almost 200 years. Today, the same funding […]
Does the 24/7 new media environment make the economic recovery more difficult?