Nobel Prize Winner Robert Shiller Offers A Brilliant Suggestion For Improving...
Robert Shiller won the Nobel Prize in economics last year for his financial market studies, which helped him successfully predict the dotcom bubble and the housing bubble when very few people were...
View ArticleThis Illustrated History Of The Selfie Shows The Idea Dates All The Way Back...
The folks over at Selfie Challenge just developed a photography game for iPhone and Android centered around, you guessed it, the selfie.They also developed this infographic detailing the history of the...
View ArticleActually, The Odds Of Winning Warren Buffett's Billion Dollar Bracket...
Billionaire Warren Buffett and Quicken Loans are sponsoring a bracket challenge for the NCAA Men's Basketball Tournament.If you can fill out a perfect bracket, you will win a billion dollars.So, what...
View ArticleThe Battle For Ukraine Is Being Fought Using Ancient Military Tactics
Things got pretty hairy in Kiev, Ukraine, in the last week due in large part to the government banning protests.As a result, riot police broke out their Roman army tactics.This formation is called the...
View ArticleWhen A Math Geek Hacked OKCupid, He Landed 88 First Dates And His One True Love
If you're using OKCupid to help you find true love, and the lack of response from potential mates is depressing, Chris McKinlay's story should cheer you up.McKinlay was using OKCupid and other sites...
View ArticleCarl Icahn Explains Why Apple Is 'Very Undervalued' And eBay Should Spin-Off...
Billionaire activist investor Carl Icahn has taken a stake in eBay, nominated two directors to its board and is angling for PayPal to be spun out as a separate unit.Why?In an interview with Bloomberg...
View ArticleJudge Issues Devastating Ruling Against Online Copyright Crusaders
Washington District Judge Robert Lasnik ruled simply that IP addresses are not individuals, according to a report by Torrentfreak.An "Internet Protocol" address is a numerical value placed on a...
View ArticleThree Questions About Russia Everyone Should #AskSnowden
While many folks rush to thank fugitive leaker Edward Snowden for "starting a conversation" around surveillance, they seem to forget that the U.S. isn't the only state which keeps an eye on people.This...
View ArticleThese Are The Jobs That Will Be Safe From The Imminent Invasion Of Robots
Worried your job is going to be made obsolete by a robot? Here's a chart based on a table from The Economist's big story on the future of jobs. It looks at jobs that will be taken over by robots in the...
View Article2 Dead In Massive Pileup Involving 'Too Many Vehicles To Count' Near Chicago
Two people were killed today in a massive pileup involving several semi-trailers near Chicago, ABC is reporting. Officials told ABC the accident involved "too many vehicles to count." Heavy equipment...
View ArticleMicrosoft Is Winning People Over With Its $99-Per-Year Version Of Office (MSFT)
Microsoft's annual subscription version of Office, called Office 365 Home Premium, has been steadily growing.Home Premium launched a year ago and now has 3.5 million subscribers, Microsoft said during...
View ArticleHere's The Secret To Keeping Your Career Fresh
Kerry Cooper's first job out of college was a gig with McKinsey.Since then, she has worked in everything from venture capital to retail, and today she is CEO of Choose Energy, an online energy...
View ArticleA Kazakh Mathematician Claims To Have Solved An Enormously Important Equation
A huge mathematical breakthrough might have just been made, but a language barrier is slowing things down.New Scientist reports that Kazakh mathematician Mukhtarbay Otelbayev may have solved an...
View ArticleMost Americans Aren't Getting Or Expecting A Raise
Though the economy is much improved from the lows of the recession, it doesn't seem that way to the long-term unemployed and people who aren't moving forward in their jobs. The majority of Americans...
View ArticleHere's Why Economic Mobility Is Stuck In Neutral
The big news in the policy world on Thursday was the release of a new paper by Harvard economist Raj Chetty and four other authors on economic mobility.The study found that, contrary to popular belief,...
View ArticleConservative Commentator Dinesh D'Souza Indicted On Campaign Finance Fraud...
Dinesh D'Souza, the conservative commentator, best-selling author, and filmmaker, has been indicted by a federal grand jury for violating federal campaign finance laws.The U.S. Attorney's Office in the...
View ArticleThe Three Mayors Making Bombshell Allegations Against Chris Christie Have...
At first, as scandals involving their cities started to unfold this month, Fort Lee Mayor Mark Sokolich (D) and Hoboken Mayor Dawn Zimmer (D) couldn't talk enough.When new documents revealed the...
View ArticleLawyer's Religious Memo Reveals Why He Quit To Fight Gay Marriage Full-Time
The gay rights group Human Rights Campaign (HRC) has posted an exit memo by a BigLaw attorney who left his firm so he could fight gay marriage full-time in Utah.The HRC leaked the exit memo the week...
View ArticleAmerica's Manufacturers Should Get Ready To Eat China's Lunch
Veteran market strategist Rich Bernstein recently published his list of three secular investment themes.Among them: the American Industrial Renaissance."Small and mid-cap US-focused industrial and...
View ArticlePrinceton Study Saying Facebook Is Doomed Gets Destroyed In Hilarious Fashion...
Researchers at Princeton made news this week by proclaiming the impending doom of Facebook. They concluded that Facebook will lose 80% of its peak users between 2015- 2017. Naturally this research...
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