The Road to a Jumbo Mortgage Was Supposed to Get Easier - New York Times
I wonder if this portends persistent softness in the upper bracket real estate market. With the inertia in terms of the securitization of these larger loans, it may be a while longer before the bottom is established in terms of prices.
Wednesday, April 30, 2008
Dumb as We Wanna Be - New York Times
Dumb as We Wanna Be - New York Times
Freidman article on the inanity of the current political prescriptions to the oil dependence issue
Freidman article on the inanity of the current political prescriptions to the oil dependence issue
Monday, April 28, 2008
Factum - Face the Fact: Let's go to the beach
Factum - Face the Fact: Let's go to the beach
Will Lake Mich look like this in the face of global warming
Wheaton College professor's divorce costs him his job -- chicagotribune.com
Wheaton College professor's divorce costs him his job -- chicagotribune.com
Tragic ofcourse, but it seems Wheaton is within it's bounds, and sounds as thought Prof Gramm wanted to make a bit of a statement.
Tragic ofcourse, but it seems Wheaton is within it's bounds, and sounds as thought Prof Gramm wanted to make a bit of a statement.
Memory Training Shown to Turn Up Brainpower - New York Times
Memory Training Shown to Turn Up Brainpower - New York Times\
There is a kind of super memory trainer that is referred to in the wired Magazine article
http://www.wired.com/medtech/health/magazine/16-05/ff_wozniak?currentPage=6
on the Polish psychologist, Wozniak.
There is a kind of super memory trainer that is referred to in the wired Magazine article
http://www.wired.com/medtech/health/magazine/16-05/ff_wozniak?currentPage=6
on the Polish psychologist, Wozniak.
Sunday, April 27, 2008
Peak Water: Aquifers and Rivers Are Running Dry. How Three Regions Are Coping
Peak Water: Aquifers and Rivers Are Running Dry. How Three Regions Are Coping: "WIRED
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How to deal withe water crisis
WIRED MAGAZINE: 16.05
Science : Planet Earth RSS
Peak Water: Aquifers and Rivers Are Running Dry. How Three Regions Are Coping
By Matthew Power Email 04.21.08 | 6:00 PM
Photo: Donald Milne
That the news is familiar makes it no less alarming: 1.1 billion people, about one-sixth of the world s population, lack access to safe drinking water. Aquifers under Beijing, Delhi, Bangkok, and dozens of other rapidly growing urban areas are drying up. The rivers Ganges, Jordan, Nile, and Yangtze — all dwindle to a trickle for much of the year. In the former Soviet Union, the Aral Sea has shrunk to a quarter of its former size, leaving behind a salt-crusted waste.
Water has been a serious issue in the developing world for so long that dire reports of shortages in Cairo or Karachi barely register. But the scarcity of freshwater is no longer a problem restricted to poor countries. Shortages are reaching crisis proportions in even the most highly developed regions, and they re quickly becoming commonplace in our own backyard, from the bleached-white bathtub ring around the Southwest s half-empty Lake Mead to the parched state of Georgia, where the governor prays for rain. Crops are collapsing, groundwater is disappearing, rivers are fa"
Back to Article
How to deal withe water crisis
WIRED MAGAZINE: 16.05
Science : Planet Earth RSS
Peak Water: Aquifers and Rivers Are Running Dry. How Three Regions Are Coping
By Matthew Power Email 04.21.08 | 6:00 PM
Photo: Donald Milne
That the news is familiar makes it no less alarming: 1.1 billion people, about one-sixth of the world s population, lack access to safe drinking water. Aquifers under Beijing, Delhi, Bangkok, and dozens of other rapidly growing urban areas are drying up. The rivers Ganges, Jordan, Nile, and Yangtze — all dwindle to a trickle for much of the year. In the former Soviet Union, the Aral Sea has shrunk to a quarter of its former size, leaving behind a salt-crusted waste.
Water has been a serious issue in the developing world for so long that dire reports of shortages in Cairo or Karachi barely register. But the scarcity of freshwater is no longer a problem restricted to poor countries. Shortages are reaching crisis proportions in even the most highly developed regions, and they re quickly becoming commonplace in our own backyard, from the bleached-white bathtub ring around the Southwest s half-empty Lake Mead to the parched state of Georgia, where the governor prays for rain. Crops are collapsing, groundwater is disappearing, rivers are fa"
Want to Remember Everything You'll Ever Learn? Surrender to This Algorithm
Want to Remember Everything You'll Ever Learn? Surrender to This Algorithm
A fascinating article on how to be a mnemonic genius and how impracticable it really is
A fascinating article on how to be a mnemonic genius and how impracticable it really is
Saturday, April 26, 2008
Wednesday, April 23, 2008
Tuesday, April 22, 2008
Turn Those Bytes Into Books - New York Times
Turn Those Bytes Into Books - New York Times
Blurb versus Lulu, some Good prices for bound books.
Blurb versus Lulu, some Good prices for bound books.
Monday, April 21, 2008
Saturday, April 19, 2008
Friday, April 18, 2008
Divided They Fall - New York Times
Divided They Fall - New York Times
Interesting followup point fro Kristof, when he pusbished oh the evnagelicals aren't so bad after all, and we should give them some credit on world poverty issues, the liberal backlash was from my perspective extremely harsh. The cognitive experiments he alludes to are interesting in that in it seems to affirm our systematic cognitive biases. We tend very much to tune out and dismiss that which doesn't conform to our own belief systems
Interesting followup point fro Kristof, when he pusbished oh the evnagelicals aren't so bad after all, and we should give them some credit on world poverty issues, the liberal backlash was from my perspective extremely harsh. The cognitive experiments he alludes to are interesting in that in it seems to affirm our systematic cognitive biases. We tend very much to tune out and dismiss that which doesn't conform to our own belief systems
Thursday, April 17, 2008
Wednesday, April 16, 2008
NEJM -- Physician Workforce Crisis? Wrong Diagnosis, Wrong Prescription -- Table 2
NEJM -- Physician Workforce Crisis? Wrong Diagnosis, Wrong Prescription -- Table 2
Bottom line huge regional differences exist even at the best brand name medical centers and this is somewhat reflective on the regional idiosyncracies "standard of care" that exist in the community as well.
Bottom line huge regional differences exist even at the best brand name medical centers and this is somewhat reflective on the regional idiosyncracies "standard of care" that exist in the community as well.
NEJM -- Physician Workforce Crisis? Wrong Diagnosis, Wrong Prescription -- Table 1
NEJM -- Physician Workforce Crisis? Wrong Diagnosis, Wrong Prescription -- Table 1
Policy implication of this slide shows us that even if there is discrepancy in terms of local physician shortages, outcome and satisfaction data may suggest that there is no difference in 2 omportant outcome endpoints.
There is some economic data out of the Dartmouth Group that bolsters this claim.
Policy implication of this slide shows us that even if there is discrepancy in terms of local physician shortages, outcome and satisfaction data may suggest that there is no difference in 2 omportant outcome endpoints.
There is some economic data out of the Dartmouth Group that bolsters this claim.
Saturday, April 12, 2008
You Thought You Had an Equity Line - New York Times
You Thought You Had an Equity Line - New York Times
MIght be prudent to max out while you can. I think this is really happening to people even w good credit, I don't think this is suburban myth.
MIght be prudent to max out while you can. I think this is really happening to people even w good credit, I don't think this is suburban myth.
Monday, April 7, 2008
Saturday, April 5, 2008
Wednesday, April 2, 2008
Tuesday, April 1, 2008
Senate Readies Bipartisan Bill to Deal With Housing Slump - New York Times
Senate Readies Bipartisan Bill to Deal With Housing Slump - New York Times
not at all clear whether this will really help those who need it the most. But I am shocked at the bipartisan nature of this vote.
not at all clear whether this will really help those who need it the most. But I am shocked at the bipartisan nature of this vote.
re quotables on cleanliness
Cleanliness becomes more important when godliness is unlikely.
P. J. O'Rourke
P. J. O'Rourke
Arch Pediatr Adolesc Med -- Abstract: A Randomized Trial of the Effects of Reducing Television Viewing and Computer Use on Body Mass Index in Young Ch
How Stupid Is Your Bike Lane? - Well - Tara Parker-Pope - Health - New York Times Blog
How Stupid Is Your Bike Lane? - Well - Tara Parker-Pope - Health - New York Times Blogbv
Oh the challenges of changing our society to be bike friendly .
Oh the challenges of changing our society to be bike friendly .
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