At the societal level, we’ve created a political and economic system designed to optimize the overall production and consumption of goods and services; to maximize our financial wealth. Yet, over the last 50 years as our per capita GDP has skyrocketed, corresponding measures of well-being, life satisfaction and happiness have flat-lined. The key assumption...
Daily Archives: December 17, 2011
And Now There’s Another Global Warming Problem To Freak Out About…
Image: Arctic Studies Well, this is troubling. Global warming is causing the permafrost to melt, which is causing vast amounts of carbon and methane to be released into the atmosphere. And those gases, of course, are what are causing global warming in the first place. So it’s a feedback loop: The more the world...
7 Interesting Things You Never Knew About Billionaire Sean Parker
Image: WireImage/ Kevin Mazur See Also: This Is SOPA, The Crazy Bill Everyone In Tech Is Worried About Watch Michele Bachmann Hand Mitt Romney The GOP Nomination How Match.com’s Founder Created The World’s Biggest Dating Website—And Walked Away With Just $50,000 Today Sean Parker is profiled in the New York Times. We learned a...
Check Out All The Incredible Android Apps You Missed This Week (GOOG)
Image: Android Market See Also: RANKED: The 10 Best New Smartphones Of 2011 13 Gadgets That Are Going To Be Massive Blockbusters In 2012 How To Get Rid Of Verizon’s Nasty Bloatware On Your Galaxy Nexus It was a huge week in Android, thanks to the long-awaited launch of the Google’s new flagship, the...
Mike Arrington Finally Expresses How Angry He Is About What’s Happened To TechCrunch
Image: Flickr/Joi See Also: WHISPERED: Tim Armstrong Is Hiring A Business Boss For Arianna IT’S OFFICIAL: TechCrunch CEO Heather Harde Has Left AOL ARRINGTON: Arianna Destroyed TechCrunch Because She Was Jealous Of All The Attention It Was Getting A lot has happened to Mike Arrington in the past few months. He grew a hobby...
Your Guide to Buying Wine Online
To begin the history of wine online, we must start at the tail end of The Prohibition era, one of the worst times in American history. Prohibition ended with the ratification of the Twenty-first Amendment, which repealed the Eighteenth Amendment, on December 5, 1933. Shortly thereafter the 3-tiered wine system was introduced, which mandated that an...
Startup Weekend plans to expand its “No talk, all action” events in 2012 [Video]
Startup Weekend is a 54-hour challenge that has taken place in 100 countries around the world. The events see teams of developers, designers, marketers and product managers compete to create products that could go on to become viable businesses. The organization recently entered into a partnership with Google, which means that the competitions, which...
Well, It Sure Seems Like Keynes Was Right
Henry Blodget After the experience of the past five years, it certainly seems like John Maynard Keynes was right, doesn’t it? It seems hard to conclude anything else. I’m not an economist, and I’m not born of a particular economic school that I’ve bet my life’s work on, so I have observed the global...
This Is SOPA, The Crazy Bill Everyone In Tech Is Worried About
See Also: Here’s Rick Perry’s Audacious Plan To Completely Reinvent The U.S. Government Congressional Budget Office: Here’s How (And How Not) To Save The Economy No, It Is NOT ‘Legal’ For Congress To Insider-Trade — The SEC Should Launch Investigation Immediately Every other tweet today has been about SOPA and American Censorship Day. If...
20 Research-Proven Signs You’re Smarter Than Average
Image: alachia See Also: The 10 Most Awesome Cars In Jay Leno’s Garage The High-Flying Life Of ‘Homeless Billionaire’ Nicolas Berggruen The Best Twitter Reactions From Golden Globes Nominees (And Stars The Awards Passed Over) It’s true, some of us are smarter than others. But why? Many research studies have been conducted to determine...