The truth at any cost lowers all other costs — curated by former US spy Robert David Steele.
Font of Knowledge: Teenager Finds Typeface Switch Could Save US Government $370m A high school student from Pittsburgh has discovered a simple but innovative method that could save the US government approximately $370 million (£222m) a year in printing ink costs: Change the typeface it uses. Fourteen-year-old Suvir Mirchandani began his investigation into which typefaces …
Growing Evidence That Autism Is Linked to Pollution A new study offers strong evidence that environmental toxins play a role in the disorder Several studies have shown a link between air pollution and autism, but a new study published in the journal PLOS Computational Biology is one of the largest to put the two together. …
John Weeks 4.0 out of 5 stars While Relevant and Pointed, Suffers from Hyperbole and Lack of Clarity, February 16, 2014 On balance, Lionel Tiger’s book The Manufacture Of Evil: Ethics, Evolution, and the Industrial System is the better book, along with those by William Greider, John Bogle, and Matt Taibbi: The Soul of Capitalism: …
Graduate Center geographer David Harvey, author of Rebel Cities; Harvard economist Edward Glaeser, author of Triumph of the City; and Seth W. Pinsky, former president of the NYC Economic Development Corporation, debate the economic realities of New York’s creative and knowledge-based industries. Adam Davidson, host of NPR’s Planet Money, moderates.
On the Basic Income Law, Economic Democracy, Participatory Economics, and the Importance of the Commons in the 21st Century R. D. Smith Introduction Over the past few weeks I’ve had the privilege of engaging with a number of people both in formal discussions and on Heathwood’s comment boards regarding a range of issues. These issues …
Michael Porter: Why business can be good at solving social problems Robert Jones It appears that Michael Porter is having an attack of conscience after recognizing the results of his life’s work. “Where are all the resources?” he asks, and then answers, “In business.” Well, ummm…DUHHH! It took him his whole career to figure this …
