Category: Money
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Game of Thrones - An example of voidness.
Game of Thrones. The new fashion in TV and entertainment. A story so blatantly void of meaning that it needs hundreds of characters to make you feel that you are seeing "something". And sometimes just kill the half [1] in order to make more... fuss about the series and gain some more viewers. The era…
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Office renovation, MD, state cancer...
The renovation of an office for Lynda Chin, the wife of the president of the University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center in Houston, Ronald DePinho, may have cost as much as $2 million, according to an analysis by a Washington, D.C., investigative newsletter. The allegations of lavish spending on Chin's office at MD Anderson…
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Brain "dead" and the Industry of Transplants...
Brain dead is not necessarily... “dead”! The fact is that the criteria for "death" based on "the death of the brain" were invented by a committee at Harvard (hence the "Harvard Criteria", based on 0 experiments by the way) the members of which had relations to organ transplantation. And today these criteria are used to support a multi-billion dollar industry…
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G20, sewage system, vaccines...
In the United States, rotavirus is a public health nuisance, resulting in tens of thousands of hospitalizations for severe diarrhea in infants and young children each a year, but few deaths. In India, the virus is a public health menace: It claims more than 100,000 lives a year. [1] A new vaccine could sharply reduce…
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High Frequency Trading, computers, humans...
In markets, as in war and medical research and just about everything else, technology tends to impart an advantage. This is how a single computer program of mysterious origins managed to make up 4 percent of all quote traffic in the U.S. stock market last week while hoarding 10 percent of the bandwidth allowed for trading…
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