6 days ago

Submitted by To Go from Google Reader: Nice infoporn  via Mint, showing the breakdown by income level. To put this into context, as of 2007, the median annual household income rose 1.3% to $50,233.00 according to the Census Bureau. > click for larger graphic . (Read More)

5 days ago

Submitted by To Go from Google Reader: here’s another cool interactive map, via the Detroit News: > click for ginormous graphic . (Read More)

Nov 15, 2009

Submitted by To Go from Google Reader: Damals in Lydien. König Krösus befragte das Orakel von Delphi, ob er gegen die Perser marschieren solle. „Wenn du das tust“, prophezeite das Orakel, „wirst du ein mächtiges Reich zerstören.“ „Klasse!“, dachte sich Krösus: Welches Reich könnte wohl mächtiger sein als das der Perser? Und hatte ihm das Orakel nicht gerade den (Read More)

Nov 15, 2009

Lifehacker Local backup is a useful and necessary part of securing your data against catastrophe, but with the advent of broadband and inexpensive online storage, you've got little reason to not backup critical files to the cloud, as well. Photo by jared. Earlier this week we asked you to share your favorite online backup solutions. N (Read More)

Nov 15, 2009

Submitted by To Go from Google Reader: Der US-Kongress debattiert über die Gesundheitsreform. Die Argumente sponsert der Pharmakonzern Roche. Die Statements von mehr als ein Dutzend Abgeordneten waren ganz oder in Teilen von Lobbyisten im Dienste des Biotechunternehmens Genentech, einer Roche-Tochter, ausgearbeitet worden, berichtet die NY Times. Die Lobbyisten, (Read More)

Nov 15, 2009

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Nov 10, 2009

Submitted by To Go from Google Reader: A few days ago I was running in Central Park as fast as I could, pushing myself hard, trying to beat my previous best time. About halfway around the park I passed a mother walking with her two-year-old daughter. They were holding hands and she was moving at the pace of her child, about one step every five seconds. We wer (Read More)

Nov 09, 2009

HarvardBusiness.org When the US pay czar, Kenneth Feinberg, approved the compensation of the top executives at seven troubled financial institutions, he insisted that they all appoint an independent director as the board chair rather than the CEO. Several major investors — the Government Pension Fund of Norway, which manages $400 billion in a (Read More)

Nov 06, 2009

Submitted by To Go from Google Reader: Featured Guest: Dr. Robert Blendon, professor at the Harvard School of Public Health and the Kennedy School of Government.RELATED:Business Preparedness for Pandemic: Executive Briefing for Corporate and Governmental Decision MakersMore than 200 corporate and government leaders came together at Harvard Medical School in Bost (Read More)

Nov 05, 2009

HarvardBusiness.org Is listening important? "Yes, of course," you say. But then why would anyone pay thousands of dollars to hear someone speak, and then not listen? I recently attended the PopTech conference in Camden, Maine, a mind-bending affair attended by several hundred idea junkies, each of whom paid several thousand dollars to (ostens (Read More)

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