Lots of travel and lots of deadlines have meant not a lot of blogging lately. Sorry. But I did want to point to the two best articles I’ve read in the last week — both of which concern housing. The first was Christopher Caldwell’s essay in the New York Times Magazine in which he shreds […]
Today’s NY Times has a great story about a whole-minded guy named Brian Bannister, who’s both a successful photographer and one of the New York Mets’ top pitching prospects.
Stanford’s Shripad Tuljapurkar says that “anti-ageing technologies will increase the most common age of death by one year per year between 2010 and 2030,” according to this BBC story. The result? 50-year mortages and a retirement age of 85.
Plus stores with a cause, mobile grooming, and social networking at 30,000 feet — all in this month’s installment of “The Trend Desk” on Yahoo! Finance.
Here’s a very cool blog devoted to discussing A Whole New Mind — brought to you by the folks who put the book’s web links online.
Businesses run by self-employed women are growing at the twice the rate of all such businesses, according to the Center for Women’s Business Research. (Thank to NDE News for this one.)
“According to College Board data, there was a 44 percent increase from 1996 to 2005 in the number of high school seniors who say that they plan to major in visual and performing arts,” says Inside Higher Ed.
I’ve been traveling rather than blogging, but here are a few tiny end-of-the-week tidbits: — If you haven’t seen it already, check out the ACLU’s brilliant Flash ad about the threats to American privacy. (Yes, the ACLU!) — One out of three parents plays video games. — Brain fitness — mark my words: this is
Last year marked the first time in four years that Silicon Valley showed a net increase in jobs, according to a Joint Venture Silicon Valley study reported in the Wall Street Journal. The numbers weren’t impressive — about 2,000 new jobs. But the types created offered an intriguing look into the future. Doug Henton, one
