The truth at any cost lowers all other costs — curated by former US spy Robert David Steele.
Warning Notice: This is a “heavy” site prone to jamming. It’s worth the effort to take a look, and has been added to the Professional Sites list. There are also some screwy blockages on copying text. This is not quite ready for prime time, but it is a righteous good start. We were impressed by …
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Great search that we appreciate very much.this is now an established term with its own Wikipedia page that includes a guide to conferences and other resources, so here we will focus only on the culture of catastrophe and how stupid societies choose to turn otherwise manageable disasters into life-altering catastrophes. There are three sub-sets we …
Computational Mathematics is the heart of both Google, and Wolfram Alpha. We understand that there are competing initiatives in China that have impressed Jim Fallows, now stationed there for Atlantic Monthly and in Russia. We imagine that both India and Iran have their own approaches underway as well, all emphasizing mathematics applied to bits and …
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Way cool! First off, the White House is theater. We have no strategy, the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) does not know how to manage, and the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) does not know how to produce intelligence (decision-support) for all who have a “need to know.” Until President Barack Obama, whom we pray …
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How do I know China wrecked the Copenhagen deal? I was in the room As recriminations fly post-Copenhagen, one writer offers a fly-on-the-wall account of how talks failed Copenhagen was a disaster. That much is agreed. But the truth about what actually happened is in danger of being lost amid the spin and inevitable mutual …
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By Brandon Keim December 23, 2009 Polar Sea Ice Amazon Rainforest Bodélé Depression, Chad South Asian Monsoons The Gulf Stream Seafloor Methane Beautifully illustrated, ignores core references such as Review: The Next Catastrophe–Reducing Our Vulnerabilities to Natural, Industrial, and Terrorist Disasters and the many other books that we summarize here at Phi Beta Iota and …
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Michael C. Jensen; Harvard Business School; Social Science Electronic Publishing (SSEP), Inc. November 29, 2009; Rotman Magazine: The Magazine of the Rotman School of Management, pp. 16-20, Fall 2009 Harvard Business School NOM Unit Working Paper No. 10-042; Barbados Group Working Paper No. 09-04 Abstract: This paper is an interview of Michael Jensen by Karen …
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