The east African country of Somalia has been without a functioning central government since the overthrow of its aging ruler, General Mohamed Siad Barre, in 1991. Since the dictator fled, the country has been victim to a horrific clan-based conflict, and has become the archetype of a failed state. … Yet, despite the chaos, and [...]
Read more →Thiel is widely regarded in Silicon Valley and in the US venture capital scene as a libertarian genius. He is the co-founder and CEO of the virtual banking system PayPal, which he sold to Ebay for $1.5bn, taking $55m for himself. He also runs a £3bn hedge fund called Clarium Capital Management and a venture [...]
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Read more →The Divorce Pill? Women generally prefer the smell of men whose MHC gene complements are different from theirs, setting the stage for the best biological match. But Wedekind’s T-shirt study revealed one notable exception to this rule: women on the birth-control pill. When the pill users among his subjects sniffed the array of pre-worn T-shirts, [...]
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Read more →Bill Mollison, the founding father of the Permaculture movement, gives us a quick tour of one of his many projects. This time we’re in central India, a couple of hours north of Hyderabad — walking amongst mangoes, bananas and a wide variety of other fruit and vegetables. What’s special about it is this ‘food forest’ [...]
Read more →1> Boot from the DVD on any computer. 2> Plug in your flash drive. 3> Compute, including saving documents. 4> There’s your simple computing environment for, well, pretty much anywhere. For bonus points, make general software installable to the keychain drive. Why doesn’t this exist?
Read more →In 1951, the director general of the Israeli Health Ministry, Dr. Chaim Sheba, flew to America and returned with seven x-ray machines, supplied to him by the American army. They were to be used in a mass atomic experiment with an entire generation of Sephardi youths to be used as guinea pigs. Every Sephardi child [...]
Read more →So let’s talk about your impossible dream. You need some miracles. Good luck with that. But I can give you, as a 10-year veteran, my five counter-intuitive and probably immoral success secrets. 1. Self promote 2. Steal 3. Don’t Lie 4. Hate your enemies, but love your rivals. 5. Do less. http://www.10zenmonkeys.com/2007/12/25/miracles/
Read more →Russian Prime Minister Viktor Zubkov says about one third of all energy used in Russia is either wasted or used inefficiently. He now proposes extensive energy-saving measures. The premier says the energy demands of the Russian GDP are almost two times higher than the world average. He now calls for the introduction of new technology [...]
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