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Here Are Some Links For Your Weekend Reading
To put a bad decision in context. Take a look at this. The actual date was April 12, 1976, but other than that, you get the point. One of the links below is to a story about an investor who lost $15 Billion in an hour. Here are some of the posts that caught
A Look Back at the Future
My father used to warn me that whatever I made fun of him about, would happen to me too. This seemed unlikely since he was overweight, while I was the athletic picture of health … and he was "technology-challenged" (to put it nicely), while I was the poster-child for early adopters. The practical realities of
Here Are Some Links For Your Weekend Reading
Here are some of the posts that caught my eye. Hope you find something interesting. Lighter Links: How The Future Is Really Built. (Innovation Excellence) Debate: Is Smart Technology Making Us Dumb? (NPR) Miracle Grow for Your Brain. (Farnam Street) The 70 Coolest New Buildings in the World. (Insider) How Lebron James' Trainer Gets
What Languages are the Most Spoken - The Results Might Surprise You
There are over 7,100 known languages actively spoken in the world today. Of those, just twenty-three of them act as a mother tongue for more than 50 million people. Collectively, those 23 languages make up the native tongue of more than half the world (4.1 billion people). This infographic represent each language within black borders
How Big Is America? So Big!
Sometimes it helps to employ unconventional perspectives when thinking about the size of things. Here's a map that shows how massive and productive America's $16.7 trillion economy is on a global scale. The map compares the gross domestic product of each US states with the national GDPs of other nations. America's largest state economy is California. For
This Happens In an Internet Minute: The Astounding Growth of Web Content
To put some perspective on this explosion of content and web traffic here are the facts on the growth of content and the internet. Compared to 2008 here is what's happened with social networks: The number of people online has more than doubled from 1.4 billion to over 3 billion Facebook has gone from 80 million