From the WP: Readership of online journals known as blogs grew significantly in 2004, driven by increased awareness of them during the presidential campaign and other major news events, according to a study released Sunday. Twenty-seven percent of online adults in the United States said in November they read blogs, compared with 17 percent in a February survey by the ...
Read More »Slow Food Revloution
The trendwire on Foodchannel.com has an article on the ‘Slow Food’ movement, and I postulate the positive gains of such a change in societal patterns here at Comob. If Americans are able to host family meals more often there is a cornicopia of developmental benefits in stor for the children and the articple postulates tha there are clear health benefits ...
Read More »Artifical Demand
Wow tis the season to get ripped off. Every year we see a “shortage” of something. This year the DS, last year it was GameCube. The list goes on and on. In fact the strange thing is that I went to several local stores (looking for a Nintendo DS) and they no Microsoft’s Xbox’s in stock. That’s right no Xbox. ...
Read More »U.S. Slips in Attracting the World's Best Students
This article documents a problem I think is non-trivial. The US is slipping in it’s ability to attract the best science students in the world. Other countries like the UK and Germany are pulling them in. In the long run there are real consequences for not folding the best and brightest into society. My slogan for that is: Intellectual capital ...
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