• Severe Panflu Response Strategies

    by  • March 3, 2008 • 4 Comments

    Original article is over at GuptaOption.com Severe Panflu Response Strategies Version 0.5A Point of contact Vinay Gupta hexayurt@gmail.com Abstract To support this volunteer effort in the public interest, please click here to donate to the Hexayurt Project by Paypal. Abstract Historical evidence shows that the 1918-1919 flu epidemic virus, H1N1, was extremely fatal (CFR > [...]

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    The Bank of the South – a Latin-American Development Bank

    by  • March 2, 2008 • 1 Comment

    The new bank will permit Ibero-America “to free ourselves of those chains which tie us to financial dependency,” Ecuador’s President Rafael Correa, one of the intellectual architects of the bank, told the press upon arriving in Buenos Aires today. “We have a common past. The time has come to seek a common destiny.” The bank [...]

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    Unauthoritarians and Authoritarians: Worlds of Difference

    by  • March 2, 2008 • 0 Comments

    Once in a while I find something that really affects me. The first big change in my thinking based on new data, not new models, was Rudy Rummel’s work on democide. Note: RWA is short for Right Wing Authoritarian, a group identified by prior psychological screening. Unauthoritarians and Authoritarians: Worlds of Difference By now you [...]

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    Infoglut and cognitive aesthetics

    by  • March 2, 2008 • 1 Comment

    It’s official: I’m not even able to keep up with the highlights of my blogs, never mind the real meaty content. And that’s having sacrificed pretty much all of my book time to blog time. Infoglut has overtaken me. What’s interesting is that I can’t really collaborate my way out of this. Smari, Marcin, David, [...]

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    Small is Profitable – 207 benefits of distributed resources

    by  • March 2, 2008 • 0 Comments

    http://web.archive.org/web/20070506151357/www.smallisprofitable.org/207Benefits.html 207 Benefits of Distributed Resources 1 Distributed resources’ generally shorter construction period leaves less time for reality to diverge from expectations, thus reducing the probability and hence the financial risk of under- or overbuilding. 2 Distributed resources’ smaller unit size also reduces the consequences of such divergence and hence reduces its financial risk. 3 [...]

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    Subprime Works

    by  • February 29, 2008 • 0 Comments

    This is really kind of brilliant: a good, clear guide to the subprime mess, in a pretty funny and direct style. http://docs.google.com/TeamPresent?docid=ddp4zq7n_0cdjsr4fn&skipauth=true&pli=1 (Via David Levinger)

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