Sunday, February 9, 2014

Computerized Trading on News Releases is Too Fast for Humans

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People with high speed connections to news releases are reacting to news in much less than a second, 50 milliseconds, in one case. In this c...
Friday, December 20, 2013

Top Christmas Songs

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Add caption Favorite Christmas Songs Every year I download different versions of Christmas songs from iTunes. Here are seven of my fav...
Monday, October 28, 2013

Will Power

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Will power isn't a popular idea. In pop culture we go with the Flow , and if we practice will power, then -- no doubt -- we will becom...
Tuesday, August 6, 2013

What we drink

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Gallap tabulated the change in American's beverage tastes, and The Atlantic plotted the above.   The results show a mixed bag ...
Sunday, June 2, 2013

Kathryn Turco Obituary

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Her high school picture, a hand colorized photo. Kathryn C. Turco age 84, of Kenosha, passed away on Saturday June 1, 2013 at St. Cather...
Friday, May 3, 2013

The Stock Market is a Co-insident Indicator

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Everyone knows that the Stock Market is included in the Conference Board's Leading Indicators, right?  -- it is included in the press re...
Saturday, April 13, 2013

IQ, EQ, Billionaires, and Merit

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In grad school, I used to say that the surest sign that wealth and intellect were unrelated was expensive cars.  We smart grad students, h...
Monday, February 25, 2013

New Urethane Technology makes it to Adidas Shoes

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There is a new show sole technology that Adidas is calling Boost. It is made up of these pre-gelled packets of foam, and it has more elastic...
Sunday, January 13, 2013

White House's Reply to the Death Star Petition is Great Writing

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Remember that internet petition that the Government build a Death Star? Read the surprisingly humorous and clever  reply. OF...
Sunday, January 6, 2013

Is It Healthier to be Fat?

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Michelle, Don't draw the wrong conclusions from the NPR report ; it is still better to be thin.  This was about a thirty year und...