Archive for the 'Economics' Category

The most isolated man in the world

Posted in Adventure, Economics, Geography, Jesus, Politics, Science, Travel by Sean on August 22nd, 2010 @ 9:27 AM

From Slate:
A few Brazilians first heard of the lone Indian in 1996, when loggers in the western state of Rondônia began spreading a rumor: A wild man was in the forest, and he seemed to be alone. Government field agents specializing in isolated tribes soon found one of his huts—a tiny [...]

The Jobless Era

Posted in Economics, Science, Work by Sean on February 27th, 2010 @ 12:52 AM

From the Atlantic:
Lisa Kahn, an economist at Yale, has studied the impact of recessions on the lifetime earnings of young workers. In one recent study, she followed the career paths of white men who graduated from college between 1979 and 1989. She found that, all else equal, for every one-percentage-point increase in the national unemployment [...]

Whole Foods

Posted in Economics, Food & Drink, Work by Sean on December 31st, 2009 @ 10:57 AM

From the New Yorker:
Whole Foods has made Mackey a wealthy man. He owns roughly thirty million dollars in stock—less than one per cent of the company—and has sold millions more over the years. Still, he flies commercial and drives a Honda Civic hybrid.
Mas:
Whole Foods routinely ranks high on those lists of companies that are the [...]

Rain Machine x Finches

Posted in Animals, Art, Culture, Economics, Music by CJ on October 5th, 2009 @ 10:46 PM

Kyp Malone, from TV on the Radio, has been playing solo in Brooklyn sporadically for a while, usually unannounced or added last minute, and I’ve always enjoyed it when I manage to catch him. The first time I saw him solo was at a Finches show and he was excellent, and also a fan of [...]

Back to the Future

Posted in Culture, Economics, Humor, Jesus, Meta, News, Science by CJ on September 22nd, 2009 @ 6:56 AM

taken from this article on the Guardian.

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