January 2012
“In contrast to Asian territories where coffee houses previously didn’t...”
– Marketing Lessons: Whatever Happened to Starbucks? - Knowledge@Australian School of Business
“I have no idea whether it is true, as Ferguson asserts with great authority,...”
– “Civilization: The West and the Rest,” by Niall Ferguson - The Washington Post
“In the chapter on work, Ferguson claims that the primary cause of Europe’s...”
– “Civilization: The West and the Rest,” by Niall Ferguson - The Washington Post
“The result of this prodigious over-scheduling is a book that is a mishmash of...”
– “Civilization: The West and the Rest,” by Niall Ferguson - The Washington Post
“While the basic outline of Ferguson’s argument is sound, the book itself is...”
– “Civilization: The West and the Rest,” by Niall Ferguson - The Washington Post
“…a computer model of the movement of people within a confined space who...”
– To Know, but Not Understand: David Weinberger on Science and Big Data - David Weinberger - Technology - The Atlantic
“Johannes Kepler examined the star charts carefully constructed by his boss,...”
– To Know, but Not Understand: David Weinberger on Science and Big Data - David Weinberger - Technology - The Atlantic
“Did I think of signing myself Dein? No, nothing could be more false. No, I am...”
– Kafka’s letter to Fräulein Felice
“The main benefit [of getting a Record deal] was the sudden availability of a...”
– BBC News - Love, the law, and Lana Del Rey
“Last year, with almost no fanfare, a song called Video Games popped up on...”
– BBC News - Love, the law, and Lana Del Rey
“Over the course of the operation some 2,000 guns were sold. Several hundred have...”
– Mexico’s drug war: Not so fast | The Economist
“Foot Binding. Foot binding was a custom practiced on young girls and women for...”
– It’s Not Just Domestic Violence: The Beginner’s Guide to 16 Types of Violence Against Women « The Pixel Project
“A broader question that could be drawn from Mr Malekpour’s case is to what...”
– Canadian resident sentenced to death for writing a computer program | Naked Security
“Cellular systems consist of a set of detailed interactions that can be thought...”
– To Know, but Not Understand: David Weinberger on Science and Big Data - David Weinberger - Technology - The Atlantic
“Despite his experience, Ian isn’t put off having a relationship again....”
– Ian McNicholl beating: The 5ft 1in girlfriend who beat her businessman partner so badly he needed cosmetic surgery after two years of horrific abuse | Mail Online
“…he received psychological help and support from The Men’s Helpline. Now,...”
– Ian McNicholl beating: The 5ft 1in girlfriend who beat her businessman partner so badly he needed cosmetic surgery after two years of horrific abuse | Mail Online
“Although the violence had come to an end, Mr McNicholl didn’t realise the...”
– Ian McNicholl beating: The 5ft 1in girlfriend who beat her businessman partner so badly he needed cosmetic surgery after two years of horrific abuse | Mail Online
“‘I felt as though I couldn’t walk away, because she told me she had family...”
– Ian McNicholl beating: The 5ft 1in girlfriend who beat her businessman partner so badly he needed cosmetic surgery after two years of horrific abuse | Mail Online
“El anuncio del Gobierno francés, el pasado 2 de enero, sobre la concesión del...”
– Congreso autoriza a Salma recibir condecoración francesa - El Universal - Espectáculos
“As science has gotten too big to know, we’ve adopted different ideas about...”
– To Know, but Not Understand: David Weinberger on Science and Big Data - David Weinberger - Technology - The Atlantic
“…the economics of sharing have changed. The Library of Congress has tens...”
– To Know, but Not Understand: David Weinberger on Science and Big Data - David Weinberger - Technology - The Atlantic
“Is it going to be an ecological disaster? Only time will tell, but Smit seems...”
– Will the Costa Concordia become an oil-spill disaster? - environment - 25 January 2012 - New Scientist
“The Concordia is resting in two places on a submerged rock formation, which is...”
– Will the Costa Concordia become an oil-spill disaster? - environment - 25 January 2012 - New Scientist
“There are three basic reasons scientific data has increased to the point that...”
– To Know, but Not Understand: David Weinberger on Science and Big Data - David Weinberger - Technology - The Atlantic
“In 1963, Bernard K. Forscher of the Mayo Clinic complained in a now famous...”
– To Know, but Not Understand: David Weinberger on Science and Big Data - David Weinberger - Technology - The Atlantic
“When Finnish policymakers decided to reform the country’s education system...”
– What Americans Keep Ignoring About Finland’s School Success - Anu Partanen - National - The Atlantic
“Since the 1980s, the main driver of Finnish education policy has been the idea...”
– What Americans Keep Ignoring About Finland’s School Success - Anu Partanen - National - The Atlantic
“Here in America,” Sahlberg said at the Teachers College, “parents...”
– What Americans Keep Ignoring About Finland’s School Success - Anu Partanen - National - The Atlantic
“As for accountability of teachers and administrators, Sahlberg shrugs....”
– What Americans Keep Ignoring About Finland’s School Success - Anu Partanen - National - The Atlantic
“Yet one of the most significant things Sahlberg said passed practically...”
– What Americans Keep Ignoring About Finland’s School Success - Anu Partanen - National - The Atlantic
“Compared with the stereotype of the East Asian model — long hours of...”
– What Americans Keep Ignoring About Finland’s School Success - Anu Partanen - National - The Atlantic
“n a series of experiments they asked people to assemble IKEA boxes - a boring,...”
– The hard way: Our odd desire to do it ourselves - 06 January 2012 - New Scientist
“As fresh recruits arrived at the Dublin branch of PricewaterhouseCoopers, their...”
– Great Moments in ‘Reply All’: Flawed Accounting - BusinessWeek
“People have this very strong, internalised notion that effort equals...”
– The hard way: Our odd desire to do it ourselves - 06 January 2012 - New Scientist
“WHEN instant cake mixes hit US shelves in the late 1940s, sales were...”
– The hard way: Our odd desire to do it ourselves - 06 January 2012 - New Scientist
“Voters are unusually loyal too. Mr Lapuente and José Fernández-Albertos, of the...”
– Mexico’s do-nothing legislature: The siesta congress | The Economist
“Istro-Romanian is classified by Unesco as severely endangered, and Professor...”
– The Lost Languages, Found in New York - NYTimes.com
“In addition to dozens of Native American languages, vulnerable foreign languages...”
– The Lost Languages, Found in New York - NYTimes.com
“The incident is the third primate death at a Harvard lab that has brought a USDA...”
– Third Monkey Death at Harvard Sparks Federal Probe of Lab Work - Bloomberg
“The children are a commodity to many directors,” said Brenton Whitaker, an...”
– BBC News - Bali orphanages: How tourist cash funds a racket
“Back in 2009 gun manufacturers labeled President Barack Obama as the “best gun...”
– Why U.S. Gun Sales Are Shooting For The Moon - Forbes
“The NSSF is a trade group that represents about 7,000 firearms manufacturers and...”
– Why U.S. Gun Sales Are Shooting For The Moon - Forbes
“They’ve come from all over America and from more than 100 countries. They are...”
– Why U.S. Gun Sales Are Shooting For The Moon - Forbes
“I shoulder in with the 60,000 people the show has brought to Las Vegas to find...”
– Why U.S. Gun Sales Are Shooting For The Moon - Forbes
“When I visited the House of Hope orphanage, home to 95 children, I was taken for...”
– BBC News - Bali orphanages: How tourist cash funds a racket
“…Many tourists will just climb into taxis and ask to be taken to an...”
– BBC News - Bali orphanages: How tourist cash funds a racket
“As tourism has boomed in Bali, it has had a strange side-effect, doubling the...”
– BBC News - Bali orphanages: How tourist cash funds a racket
“Carnival estimó entre 85 y 95 millones de dólares el impacto inmediato sobre sus...”
– Naufragio del Concordia “hundiría” a industria | El Economista
“…in mid 2008, Starbucks’ management announced that it would close 61...”
– Marketing Lessons: Whatever Happened to Starbucks? - Knowledge@Australian School of Business