What I Learned Today

2010

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March 1

2009

June 16
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February
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2008

June 26
May 15
April 30
March 29
January 53

2007

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It takes 21 days

for a habit to form.  This was determined by Dr. Maxwell Maltz who noticed it took 21 days for...
Dec 30th
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From the WSJ Editorial Page,“We can’t have a president who spent two minutes on YouTube...
Dec 29th
beautiful day at the beach
Dec 29th
From Time Magazine’s What the World Eats. The...
Dec 29th
“Despite threats of death, I will not acquiesce to tyranny,...”
— Benazir Bhutto
Dec 28th

Game Theory predicts Russian President

Just reread an interesting article in Good Magazine about the chairman of NYU’s Department of...
Dec 27th
How very unique and consumeristic. This couple paint the...
Dec 27th
Speaking of surfing.. I began reading this book by this man...
Dec 26th
Some of the gifts I received. Shucks, Shocks, and Hominy...
Dec 26th
Surfing Santa still going strong at Seal Beach. This guy has...
Dec 26th
Akvavit and pickled herring. A Danish tradition.
Dec 24th

more on gold

Gold is the basis for the monetary standard under the International Monetary Fund (IMF). It is used...
Dec 23rd
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Davey Dance Blog
Dec 21st
“It gets dug out of the ground in Africa, or someplace. Then...”
— Warren Buffett on gold.
Dec 19th
Chris Jordan’s Intolerable Beauty: Portraits of...
Dec 18th

Fortune Magazine's 101 Dumbest Moments...

Some of my favorites: Eli Lilly, the global pharmaceutical company, to make doggie Prozac -...
Dec 17th
Today I learned a whole lot about finance. Mostly...
Dec 16th
“We look at everything very carefully. The really crazy ones...”
— Salman Ullah, Google’s...
Dec 15th
jan von holleben’s dreams of flying. found on ffffound...
Dec 15th
Kangaroos can swim. (And be eaten by sharks. The story from...
Dec 15th
here’s how many planets we would need if everyone...
Dec 15th

Google's RE

Google’s at it again! This time in the energy department. Google plans to invest hundreds of...
Dec 15th

Oil Oil Oil

I was waiting until the price of oil hit $100 to discuss it, but since it doesn’t look like that...
Dec 14th

study: men with deeper voices have more...

Here’s a study of the Hazda in Tanzania that shows that men with deeper voices have more...
Dec 13th
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Led Zeppelin reunited for one show on Monday in London. I’m praying for a tour.
Dec 13th
Speaking of snow, find out how green your...
Dec 13th

Hedge Funds - what are they and how do I...

Hedge funds. You hear about them, you read about them, your friend works for one. But you don’t know...
Dec 11th
Since I don’t have $3,000 to spend, I’m going to...
Dec 9th

Water Rights Trading

Sounds a bit esoteric, right? Well, listen up cause it may affect you and the rest of the world...
Dec 9th

GDP shmeeDP

If you haven’t heard, GDP is up! To 4.9%, one of the highest numbers we’ve seen (and will ever see) ...
Dec 7th
And then there was one. Yesterday, at the UN Framework...
Dec 5th
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Finally - a new time lapse.
Dec 4th
Ethanol: why it matters to you, me, and the people of...
Dec 1st