Scratches to Sketches
Tuesday, 18 November 2014
Economist: Bankers Defame Capitalism - Business Insider
And, so it is than the bankers from the US achieve their due reputation.
The financial crisis saw the UK become more equal. That was nothing to celebrate | City A.M.
All said and done, the war of numbers really gets us nowhere..
Sunday, 16 November 2014
Friday, 14 November 2014
Wednesday, 12 November 2014
Tuesday, 11 November 2014
How man’s best friend could hold the key to anti-ageing | Science | The Observer
Scientists are targeting a new set of recruits to test anti-ageing drugs: pet dogs. And according to their plans, not any old pooch will do. The researchers want to concentrate their trials on large canines. Golden retrievers, labradors and German shepherd dogs will do nicely.
The researchers are particularly interested in using pet dogs to test rapamycin. Developed as an anti-rejection drug for patients who have just undergone kidney transplants, rapamycin has recently been shown to extend the lives of mice by more than 10%.
http://www.theguardian.com/science/2014/nov/08/anti-ageing-drugs-tested-on-dogs-cancer-heart?CMP=EMCNEWEML6619I2Monday, 10 November 2014
50% of occupations today will no longer exist in 2025: Report | Business Standard News
"A paradigm shift is expected to be witnessed in the way workplaces operate over the next 15 years, making nearly 50 per cent of occupations existing today redundant by 2025, a report has said.
Artificial intelligence will transform businesses and the work that people do. Process work, customer work and vast swathes of middle management will simply disappear, it said."
Artificial intelligence will transform businesses and the work that people do. Process work, customer work and vast swathes of middle management will simply disappear, it said."
Sunday, 9 November 2014
Capital Gazette - Our say: Newly powerful Republicans have a choice
"In a famous essay, the scholar Isaiah Berlin used a fragment from an ancient Greek poet — "The fox knows many things, but the hedgehog knows one big thing" — to outline a way you can categorize all human beings, politicians included. Over the next four years much will depend on whether in electing new Gov. Larry Hogan, new County Executive Steve Schuh, five new state legislators and three new County Council members, county voters have picked officials who act more like hedgehogs or more like foxes. Hedgehogs can run the most effective campaigns, but foxes are better at government."
Saturday, 8 November 2014
The Uses of Ridicule - NYTimes.com
"But Singer will get very angry if you make fun of him; in fact, he denounces reporting that points out how wrong he and others have been as the "Krugmanization" of the media, a term I'll adopt with pride. It's yet another illustration of one of the remarkable revelations of recent years, the incredibly sensitive feelings of the superrich, who are so hurt at any suggestion that great wealth does not also go with great wisdom and great virtue that they threaten to take the economy with them and go home."
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Sketches from scratches is a provocative blogspot that has grown out of the Wuh Lax experience. It is eclectic, which means that it might consider just about anything from the simple to the extremely difficult. A scratch can be something that is troubling me or a short line on paper. From a scratch comes a verbal sketch or image sketch of the issue or subject. Other sites have other stuff that should really be of interest to the broad reader. I try to develop themes, but variety often comes before depth.
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