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