The truth at any cost lowers all other costs — curated by former US spy Robert David Steele.
21 graphs that show America’s health-care prices are ludicrous Every year, the International Federation of Health Plans — a global insurance trade association that includes more than 100 insurers in 25 countries — releases survey data showing the prices that insurers are actually paying for different drugs, devices, and medical services in different countries. And every …
The 12 habits of highly collaborative organizations | TechRepublic Did you know that there are more possible moves in a game of chess then there are atoms in the entire universe and seconds that have elapsed since the big bang? In fact, chess can be a virtually endless game. If that’s the case then how …
Continue reading “The 12 habits of highly collaborative organizations | TechRepublic”
Facebook ‘likes’ predict personality What do your Facebook likes say about you? Sexuality, political leanings and even intelligence can be gleaned from the things you choose to “like” on Facebook, a study suggests. Researchers at Cambridge University used algorithms to predict religion, politics, race and sexual orientation. The research, published in the journal PNAS, forms …
Continue reading “Eagle: Facebook Strike Two — “Likes” Reveal All — Like It or Not”
Maybe Italy’s Politicians Aren’t Crazier Than Ours Alexander Stille The New Yorker, March 5, 2013 The results of the last Italian election are baffling, if not incomprehensible, to most foreign observers: as one American friend put it, a majority of Italians voted either for a comedian (Beppe Grillo) or a clown (Silvio Berlusconi). A center-left …
David Bollier and Silke Helfrich (editors) We are poised between an old world that no longer works and a new one struggling to be born. Surrounded by centralized hierarchies on the one hand and predatory markets on the other, people around the world are searching for alternatives. The Wealth of the Commons explains how millions …
Continue reading “Review (Guest): The Wealth of the Commons: A World Beyond Market and State”
We are long past due cutting the chains of predatory proprietary expensive, non-scalable, non-interopperable software. Open Source Everything (OSE) is a very ugly baby, but it is the only baby that has a chance of affordable scaling to meet the needs of all humanity. Indifference of market leaders kills their own markets Internet transforming higher …
Continue reading “Penguin: Microsoft Dying – But Linux Not Ready”
Following up on the excellent post, Mongoose: Moti Nissani on Who Killed Aaron Swartz? it is now clear MIT refuses to cut any kind of deal, and the prosecutor went nuclear on what should have been a matchbook case. Now it emerges that the prosecutor going after Swartz went after another young man involved with …
