Current Affairs

Amazing Time-Lapse Videos of Earth Changing

May 10, 2013

Watch from space as Las Vegas grows from 1984 to now. Or watch as a glacier shrinks, and the Amazon jungle recedes. Watch Dubai grow.  Time Magazine and Google have combined to create this Time Lapse site Earth Engine site, offering time-lapse photography of the earth changing from 1984 through 2012, using NASA technology and satellite [...]

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Save the Patient. Make Exorbitant Profits. Is This Okay?

April 15, 2013

How do you feel about projecting excessive profitability in a health care business plan? Over the weekend I saw the pitch for a brilliant business plan, with great technology, for developing medical electronics that could significantly reduce some kinds of complications in some kinds of surgeries. “The world needs this,” I thought. “I hope these [...]

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How to Fix the USA: Excellent TED Talk

April 8, 2013

If you’re a citizen of the USA you should spend the minutes to listed to to Lawrence Lessig’s TED talk, “We the people and the republic we must reclaim.” This is completely bipartisan, spans liberals and conservatives, and addresses problems that affect all of us, regardless of views on any specific issue.  I’m embedding it [...]

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To This Day for the Bullied and Beautiful

March 11, 2013

Beautiful, haunting, poetic “to this day” for the bullied and beautiful If you don’t see this here, click this link for the original on YouTube.

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Immigrant Entrepreneurs are Good For U.S. (Infographic)

February 18, 2013

This very strong infographic was published last week on Innovation by techdirt blog introducing Startup Act 3, a new effort to push a startup visa for immigrants who want to come to the U.S. to create jobs, not take jobs. 

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What Part of the Word Publishing Don’t You Understand?

February 5, 2013

Warning: this is probably just a waste of time, but still, I was curious, then fascinated, as I read Investigative Journalist Claims Her Public Tweets Aren’t ‘Publishable;’ Threatens To Sue Blogger Who Does Exactly That on Techdirt.  My first reaction: It’s publishing. Look up the definition. Published and not publishable are opposites.  It’s an interesting story, though, [...]

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The World is Dead. Long Live the World. Carved in Stone.

January 16, 2013

The truth is, the Mayans never thought the world was going to end on Dec. 21, 2012. That was just the end of the 13th and beginning of the 14th* baktun, a unit of time on the Mayan calendar, 394 years. I was at a Mayan ceremony celebrating the beginning of the new baktun, in Xcaret, [...]

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Let’s All Demand Killer’s Names Not Be Published

December 17, 2012

Here is something we all could do to make these horrific multiple murders less likely to happen: Let’s not publish killers’ names or pictures. Let’s all agree. Sign petitions. Make demands. Tell the New York Times and Huffington Post and Washington Post and Los Angeles Times, and all the newspapers, all the new channels, all [...]

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Pop Quiz: Greatest Challenge in Workforce Planning

November 13, 2012

According to this infographic, summarizing more detailed research, the greatest challenge is finding and hiring the right people. Which I think would have been true last year, five years ago, and 20 years ago too. The greatest uncertainty: the economy. I got this infographic today from the Compliance and Safety Blog: Featured By: complianceandsafety.com

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What Obama Win Means for Small Business and Entrepreneurs

November 8, 2012

I just posted Now Let’s Hold Both Parties Accountable for What They Do to Small Business on the smplans.com blog. It’s a riff on Sarah Needleman’s excellent summary on WSJ.com, called Clarity for Small Firms. I hope you can see that one; I’m not sure about the pay wall. She summarizes the situation for taxes, [...]

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