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POPSDetroit Automakers a Relic of the Past No one in the private sector is willing to pony up a dime for this business plan. GM stock is below its 1946 price, and one investment house has priced it at zero. The Detroit Three are taking advantage of the passage of the $700 billion financial bailout to argue that they, too, need government money to go on. But as Megan McArdle of The Atlantic argues, the finance firms are different. If credit coagulates, everyone suffers, while if the Detroit Three go bankrupt, their shareholders lose their stake, employee and retiree pay and benefits are cut, and real estate values go down in areas where the companies and their suppliers operate -- but life for most of us goes on. McArdle further argues that the capital invested in keeping the hulk of the Detroit Three operating pretty much as they are, unprofitably, will not be available to those whose startups could morph into the Microsofts and FedExes of the future.
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POPS Different accounts of the same event ,The term 'Rashomon effect' is often used by psychologists in situations where observers give different accounts of the same event,and describes the effect of subjective perceptions on recollection "
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POPSExperts Say Humans Can Live to 1,000 Leon Kass, the former head of Bush's Council on Bioethics, insists that “the finitude of human life is a blessing for every human individual”. Bioethicist Daniel Callahan of the Garrison, New York-based Hastings Centre, agrees: “There is no known social good coming from the conquest of death.” Maybe they’re right, but then why do we as humans strive so hard to prolong our lives in the first place? Maybe growing old, getting sick and dying is just a natural, inevitable part of the circle of life, and we may as well accept it. "But it's not inevitable, that's the point," One wonders what Methuselah would say about all this.
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POPSThey just don't fear heaven and earth "If anything, they are superior in many ways to us. Thinking too much about the future or worrying too much about the past is really unhealthy. The Pirahã taught me that very lesson. Living in the moment is a sophisticated way to live. I don't see depression. I don't see some of the things that afflict our society - and that's not because they don't face pressures." An interesting story.
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POPSFifty Is The New Zero American education at work - we seem to be into the third generation of the uneducated teaching children. What a joy these students will be to their future employers. We will always need garbage collectors.
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POPSModesty/Religious War in Jerusalem Mayor Election!!! Jerusalem is one of Israel's poorest cities and one of its most divided: Arab and Jew, religious and secular, rich and poor. Its future is a core issue in any peace deal between Israel and the Palestinians. Dadon said: "I want a city of diversity for all religions, where each religion has its own area." "Are you in favour of fencing people in?" asked Mann. "The ultra-Orthodox are taking over," said Dadon. "They need to be in a different place. They run their lives completely differently."
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POPSPredestination, or Free Will? This is a concept of a very different God, one who suffers with the world and doesnt know the future in absolute detail. It is scary too. If God is not omnipotent there seems to be the possibility that evil can gain supremacy.
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POPSBad news for the long tail It turns out that the long tail may not have any silver lining - online music sales effectively run down to zero faster than expected and winners take even more. It looks like the future really is going to be one or two megastars and a whole lot of one hit youtube amateurs.
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POPSWhat happens to Sarah Palin now? She has a charm, now we can afford ourself admit it. Beautiful moose-loving hockey mom.;) Real grass-root folkish courageous American. Her example (and Hillary's) show, that politic is a rough merciless business and, IMHO, not for gracious female nature, especially on presidential levels. Has she political future? Has she enough inner power to reform ideology of her party as well as her own convictions? Can she find the ways to hearts, souls and minds ordinary people without inciting hate and cave instincts?
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POPSUSA: History Gives Way to Its Future This is my favorite headline. Nice slideshow on this page and the article "History Gives Way to Its Future" has a nice video. Many people, including some rather staid old politicians, have said something different is going on here, not just an election but a 'movement,' a cause. Like an old protest song sang: "Something is happening here..." Some said this is a 'new vision,' some said Obama was to be a 'transformational' character. (Not just of the side-effect - the profound side-effect --of him being Afro-American but because of how we expect he will rule)
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POPSAn interesting thing about us humans Ok, so maybe this is obvious...but it struck me as interesting. Prompted 2 thoughts...(1) Would sure be different if it were otherwise and (2) just like animals don't know they can't conceive of time or the future, i wonder what we don't know of that we're not able to conceive.
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POPSIt's, it's, it's... Out of the Park! While record companies complain and file lawsuits against music lovers, Apple tried something different and now makes more from iPhones than computers and is up in the Wal-Mart region for music sales. Score one for trying a new model. I wonder who will be the one to do this for The Assembly Line School?
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POPSIntercultural Understanding We must always try to make life better and learn from our errors. In education we must show that we have learned and through education we must avoid the evils of intolerance, stereotypes and racism, which, alas, still exists and terrorize the existence of so many people around the world. “Education for Intercultural Understanding and Dialogue” 21. October 2008.
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POPSAre you ready to game? Sounds brilliant. the future of user-generated content is beginning its dominance. It really is a major change conceptually. there is much thinking to be done how this can make us more responsible for example. anyway let the game begin ;-)
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POPSLooting your retirement fund to fix the economy It would be a very different story for the very wealthy.The top 20 percent of earners own more than 70 percent of IRA and 401(k) assets, and, for many of them, the McCain plan represents a terrific opportunity. They could access funds (which they contributed pre-tax in the first place) by paying only one-third the tax they normally would. Without rules to prohibit it, many could withdraw $50,000-a-year from their regular 401(k)s at 10 percent tax and immediately reinvest the funds into a Roth IRA, where all future earnings are tax-free. Others could find equally creative ways to move money around to take advantage of the low tax rate without adding a dime to savings. No doubt the economy is bad, but ruining the old age of millions of middle-class retirees while creating yet another tax boondoggle for the wealthy is no way to make it better.
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POPSFrom Paralysis to function, how far are we? closer now Wow, very impressive progress! "the study, which appears in the journal Nature, scientists at the University of Washington in Seattle implanted ultra thin electrodes into the brains of macaques which had been trained to play a game that involved rotating their wrists to the left and right. While the monkeys played, the electrodes picked up electrical signals in their brains that made them tense different muscles. The scientists then injected the monkeys with a chemical that temporarily paralysed their arms. This time, signals from nerves in their brains were fed into a computer, cleaned up and magnified, and sent down a wire to muscles in the monkeys' wrists. When the monkeys tried to play the game again, they were unable to at first, but soon learned to control their wrist movements using the brain implant. when he found something worked, he quickly repeated it and adopted the strategy" very nice!
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POPSTortue: Direct Authorizations from White House Revealed
Torture is against Internation law In March 2008 Bush vetoed Congressional legislation outlawing torture. New legislation was later passed officially approving waterboarding & other modes of torture (John McCain voted in favor of this approval) Approving torture and approving totally allowed spying on citizens without specific warrants or reasons are two fatall steps towards full-fledged fascism. This documentation of these White House memos would document Bush/Cheney & other White Houses officials of war crimes OR complicity in war crimes. If these officials can get away with this now, not only does the corruption and descent of our nation deepen now but makes it more probably that such evils will happen in the future. (Having private armies is another classic step down the road to fascism -- like Blackwater, like other "private security contractors.") Ruling by fear and lies, etc. The legacy of George Bush will be that he's the first president to be tried for
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POPSThe Right Prescription for McCain It probably won't happen because the campaign in mired in the muck of pandering to the "base." McCain sold his soul and now reaps the the "rewards." Had he not, this race could be very different. Had he remained the maverick he was, he could be winning.
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POPSDecoding the sense of smell In future work, the team plans to work with researchers worldwide, including MIT's Media Lab and Department of Biology, to develop a portable microfluidic device that can identify an array of different odors. Such a device could be used in medicine for the early diagnosis of certain diseases that produce distinctive odors, such as diabetes and lung, bladder and skin cancers, Zhang said. There are also a wide range of industrial applications for such a smell-based biosensing device, he said. One application i can think of is developing an antidote for smelly things, people etc.. :)
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