The truth at any cost lowers all other costs — curated by former US spy Robert David Steele.
Iceland Rejects Deposit Repayments to British, Dutch By CHARLES FORELLE Wall Street Journal, 10 April 2011 For the second time, Icelanders voted down a deal to repay Britain and the Netherlands billions of euros lost in the island nation’s 2008 financial collapse—at once a bold popular rejection of the notion that taxpayers must bear the …
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It can safely be said that most great ideas result from errors (including accidents), because the real break-throughs occur when the prevailing paradgim (“business as usual”) is so demonstrably unfit as to call into question its further utility OR something really sensational is discovered that is totally inconsistent with the prevailing paradigm. PERSISTENCE rooted in …
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How to Get a Real Education Forget art history and calculus. Most students need to learn how to run a business, says Scott Adams (Creator of Dilbert) Wall Street Journal, 9 April 2011 I understand why the top students in America study physics, chemistry, calculus and classic literature. The kids in this brainy group are …
Hexidecimally Lingual: Websites Must Speak 16 Languages to Go Global New data from research firm Common Sense Advisory suggests that if your brand is to achieve truly global reach in our online world, your website must “speak” more than 16 languages. Common Sense Advisory publishes reports that are designed to help its clients reach a …
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Moving beyond teachers and bosses We train kids to deal with teachers in a certain way: Find out what they want, and do that, just barely, because there are other things to work on. Figure out how to say back exactly what they want to hear, with the least amount of effort, and you are …
Nuclear power plant accidents: listed and ranked since 1952 guardian.co.uk Datablog: “We have identified 33 serious incidents and accidents at nuclear power stations since the first recorded one in 1952 at Chalk River in Ontario, Canada. The information is partially from the International Atomic Energy Authority – which, astonishingly, fails to keep a complete historical …
The Middle East Crisis Has Just Begun For the U.S., democracy’s fate in the region matters much less than the struggle between the Saudis and Iran Robert D. Kaplan Wall Street Journal, March 26, 2011 Despite the military drama unfolding in Libya, the Middle East is only beginning to unravel. American policy-makers have been spoiled …
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