The truth at any cost lowers all other costs — curated by former US spy Robert David Steele.
Itamar Simonson and Emanuel Rosen Formula book, somewhat shallow, misses major opportunity, February 16, 2014 This book was a gift. The subtitle (What Really Influences Customers in the Age of (Nearly) Perfect Information) overcame my reluctance and I gave it it a quick read, which is all it deserves. This is a formula book, and …
Colin Woodard 5.0 out of 5 stars Nine Nations Was a Snap-Shot — This Is Deep History & Ends Thoughtfully, February 16, 2014 I bought this book prepared to dislike it, having given a rave review to Joel Garreau’s The Nine Nations of North America. Let me settle that one immediately. I loved this book. …
How visualising data has changed life… and saved lives From John Graunt’s ‘bills of mortality’ to Florence Nightingale’s revolutionary ‘rose charts’, the distillation of information into graphics has been a vital tool for scientists Nicola Davis The Observer, Saturday 15 February 2014 Big data, infographics, visualisations – the pop words of a modern phenomenon. But …
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Baidu, Chinese Search Engine Company Expands Into New Markets The article on ITWorld titled China’s Baidu Testing Search Engines for Brazil, Egypt, Thailand explores the ambition of China’s premier search engine. For some years the company has contemplated moving beyond China, and in 2008 began targeting Japan. Now they are readying to move into Egpyt, …
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DroneShield warns of low-flying UAVs with 18 nations demanding the device – inventor The Voice of Russia, 14 February 2014 In a matter of a few years, tons of drones could be whizzing around residential zones, taking away tiny pieces of privacy people once had. DroneShield is a fresh new concept that alerts of nearby …
Democracy by design is a zero sum game. Elections are revolutions without the guns. Part of the problem faced by social progressives is that all too many of us have a gut rejection of reality when it is negative. In my view you can’t fight a battle if you are unwilling to accurately assess the …
From the perspective of a Boeing 767 captain and former “special activities” contract pilot, Philip Marshall straps the reader into the cockpits of hijacked commercial airliners to tell the story of the most sophisticated terrorist attack in history. Based on a comprehensive ten-year study into the murders of his fellow pilots on 9/11, he explains …
