December 2010
23 posts
ShortFormBlog: How did Bell, California's city... →
shortformblog:
The L.a. Times has a lengthy article on Bell’s corruption that’s worth reading. We could go into great detail with the piece, but we think we can probably explain the story best through the starting and ending salary of one of the most corrupt members of Bell’s government, one of seven town…
Out of Lehman's Ashes Wall Street Gets Most of... →
longreads:
“We continue to listen to the same people whose errors in judgment were central to the problem,” said John Reed, 71, a former co-chief executive officer of Citigroup Inc., who estimated only 25 percent of needed changes have been enacted. “I’m astounded because we basically dropped the world’s biggest economy because of an error in bank management.”
By Christine Harper, Bloomberg...
The Decline Effect →
longreads:
But now all sorts of well-established, multiply confirmed findings have started to look increasingly uncertain. It’s as if our facts were losing their truth: claims that have been enshrined in textbooks are suddenly unprovable. This phenomenon doesn’t yet have an official name, but it’s occurring across a wide range of fields, from psychology to ecology. In the field of medicine,...
“I understand only you and Obama have your own Situation Rooms.”
– North Korean official to visiting reporter Wolf Blitzer.
[@mpoppel.]
(via thedailywhat)
