Theme park cast member stories: The one with the security camera. In answer to popular questions about working at the Walt Disney World Resort: "Are there really security cameras everywhere at Walt Disney World?
" Well, I wouldn't say that they are everywhere, but Disney uses security cameras in many of its attractions. "Have you ever seen, well, you know...? " Yes. "But I didn't say what I meant. " Doesn't matter. Howard Bloom's Big Bang Cosmology Science from The God Problem - The Big Bagel. LifeGem - Memorial Diamonds created from a lock of hair or cremated remains / ashes / cremation. Vatche Sahakian Lecture: Fish in a Pond: From Cosmology to the Anthropic Principle. Screw Optimism and screw “sanity” I recently stumbled across a book on the link between leadership and what we call madness.
From the Amazon review: Take realism, for instance: study after study has shown that those suffering depression are better than “normal” people at assessing current threats and predicting future outcomes. Looking at Lincoln and Churchill among others, Ghaemi shows how depressive realism helped these men tackle challenges both personal and national. Or consider creativity, a quality psychiatrists have studied extensively in relation to bipolar disorder. A First-Rate Madness shows how mania inspired General Sherman and Ted Turner to design and execute their most creative-and successful-strategies.Ghaemi’s thesis is both robust and expansive; he even explains why eminently sane men like Neville Chamberlain and George W.
Now, I’m not depressive, strictly speaking. An optimist and a damn fool are the same thing. Listen, Little Man! Kevin Slavin: How algorithms shape our world Stock trades to exploit speed of light, says researcher. 23 March 2011Last updated at 03:20 By Jason Palmer Science and technology reporter, BBC News, Dallas Optimal high-frequency trading locations (blue) exist for pairs of major financial exchanges (red) Financial institutions may soon change what they trade or where they do their trading because of the speed of light.
"High-frequency trading" carried out by computers often depends on differing prices of a financial instrument in two geographically-separated markets. Exactly how far the signals have to go can make a difference in such trades. Alexander Wissner-Gross told the American Physical Society meeting that financial institutions are looking at ways to exploit the light-speed trick. The Society of the Spectacle. “But for the present age, which prefers the sign to the thing signified, the copy to the original, representation to reality, appearance to essence, . . . truth is considered profane, and only illusion is sacred.
Sacredness is in fact held to be enhanced in proportion as truth decreases and illusion increases, so that the highest degree of illusion comes to be seen as the highest degree of sacredness.” —Feuerbach, Preface to the Second Edition of The Essence of Christianity In societies where modern conditions of production prevail, life is presented as an immense accumulation of spectacles. The Global Financial Crisis and the Shift to Shadow Banking. The Most IMPORTANT Video You'll Ever See (part 1 of 8)
Gini coefficient. Gini coefficient of national income distribution around the world.
This is based on 1989 to 2009 data, estimated by the CIA. Some are pre-tax and transfer, others post-tax income. The Gini coefficient (also known as the Gini index or Gini ratio) (/dʒini/) is a measure of statistical dispersion intended to represent the income distribution of a nation's residents. It was developed by the Italian statistician and sociologist Corrado Gini and published in his 1912 paper "Variability and Mutability" (Italian: Variabilità e mutabilità).[1][2] The Gini coefficient measures the inequality among values of a frequency distribution (for example levels of income). There are some issues in interpreting a Gini coefficient. Definition[edit] Graphical representation of the Gini coefficient. Growth Has an Expiration Date. Bio Tom Murphy Tom Murphy is an associate professor of physics at the University of California, San Diego.
He currently leads a project to test General Relativity by bouncing laser pulses off of the reflectors left on the Moon by the Apollo astronauts, achieving one-millimeter range precision. Murphy's keen interest in energy topics began with his teaching a course on energy and the environment for non-science majors at UCSD.
He has explored the quantitatively convincing case that our pursuit of an ever-bigger scale of life faces gigantic challenges and carries significant risks. Click on any word within the transcript to jump to that point in the program. next previous cancel To download this program become a Front Row member. ZOOM IN: Learn more with related books and additional materials. Jevons paradox. The Jevons paradox has been used to argue that energy conservation may be futile, as increased efficiency may increase fuel use.
Nevertheless, increased efficiency can improve material living standards. Further, fuel use declines if increased efficiency is coupled with a green tax or other conservation policies that keep the cost of use the same (or higher).[3] As the Jevons paradox applies only to technological improvements that increase fuel efficiency, policies that impose conservation standards and increase costs do not display the paradox. History[edit] The Biggest Company You've Never Heard Of. Theyrule.