Monday, September 30, 2013

Downward mobility

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A recent article in Sociology Mind, demonstrating that check cashing outlets strategically target high crime neighborhoods, is an indication...
Saturday, September 28, 2013

Uncertain governance

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As the politicians in Washington battle for their beliefs and brownie points, the coming generation has to seriously consider effecting a tr...
Thursday, September 26, 2013

Failure

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The failure of science to propel thoughts and the failure of religion to lift humanity have left most in the dust – some yearning for meanin...
Monday, September 23, 2013

Regulatory obsolescence

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A recent article in Anesthesia & Analgesia points out that iPhones can already be equipped with Pulse Oximetry – currently only availab...
Friday, September 20, 2013

Chandra’s coma

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Recent observations from NASA’s Chandra observatory that shows the enormous scope of the Coma cluster of galaxies leave the amateurs dumfoun...
Friday, September 13, 2013

Rajan : Intellect to spare

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As I walked up to the shabby building in downtown Chicago, battling the bone chilling wind from the lake in 1992, I was looking forward to R...
Thursday, September 12, 2013

Mad, fast and dumb

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Recent research from the University of Miami warns that the emergence of the “ultrafast machine ecology,” – referring to algorithmic trading...
Tuesday, September 3, 2013

An economic loss to society

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The passing of Ronald Coase makes us poorer in our ability to conceptualize complex problems that affect society at large and solve them ele...