This blog is meant to capture the intersection of business, economics, politics, science, humanities, global culture, facts, figures, ideas, human nature, inventions, technology, health, food, sex...It is really an ode to life and the many things to think about and consider along the way.

Sunday, July 12, 2020

Worldwide Threat Assessment of US Intelligence Community

https://www.dni.gov/files/ODNI/documents/2019-ATA-SFR---SSCI.pdf

Best Treatment for TMJ Might be Nothing

https://www.nytimes.com/2009/02/03/health/03brod.html

Is College Still Worth It? The New Calculus of Falling Returns

https://research.stlouisfed.org/publications/review/2019/10/15/is-college-still-worth-it-the-new-calculus-of-falling-returns

Why Most Published Research Findings are False

https://journals.plos.org/plosmedicine/article?id=10.1371/journal.pmed.0020124

Kondratiev Wave

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kondratiev_wave

Tuesday, March 10, 2020

Gray Rhinos

https://www.thegrayrhino.com/


Why Humanity Destoryed Itself

https://www.theschooloflife.com/thebookoflife/why-humanity-destroyed-itself/

Overreaction to Fearsome Risk

https://sites.hks.harvard.edu/fs/rzeckhau/overreaction_risks.pdf

Limts of Prediction

How I Learned to Stop Worrying About Black Swans and Love Analysis:
https://www.cia.gov/library/center-for-the-study-of-intelligence/csi-publications/csi-studies/studies/vol-63-no-4/pdfs/Limits-of-Prediction.pdf


Monday, November 25, 2019

Deliver Uncompromised

A study commissioned by the Pentagon warning that insecure supply chains place America's armed forces at grave risk from hacking and high-tech sabotage.

https://rightexposure.com/images/deliver-uncompromised-MITRE-study-8AUG2018.pdf

A Theory of Narrow Thinking

https://economics.mit.edu/files/15186


Monday, July 1, 2019

Tuesday, March 5, 2019

DRD4-7R

The "wanderlust gene."

Thursday, January 17, 2019

ACE-IQ

"Adverse Childhood Experiences International Questionnaire, or ACE-IQ, which identifies 13 factors in young lives that can lead to problems in adulthood."

Wednesday, January 9, 2019

The Undiagnosed Diseases Network

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/01/07/health/patients-medical-mysteries.html

Russian Agents Sought Secret US Records

https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/anthonycormier/russian-agents-sought-us-treasury-records-on-clinton-backers

Thursday, December 13, 2018

How Tariffs Work and Why China Won't See a Bill

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/11/29/us/politics/how-tariffs-work-china.html

Wednesday, November 21, 2018

Surprising Formula for Becoming an Art Star

https://www.wsj.com/articles/the-surprising-formula-for-becoming-an-art-star-1541704849

Friday, November 9, 2018

A Week as a Legal Sex Worker

https://www.yahoo.com/lifestyle/week-legal-sex-worker-booked-160000200.html

Wednesday, October 10, 2018

Doctors are surprisingly bad at reading lab results

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/posteverything/wp/2018/10/05/feature/doctors-are-surprisingly-bad-at-reading-lab-results-its-putting-us-all-at-risk/?noredirect=on