Andrew WhiteNow and again one has the pleasure of reading something and not experiencing how quickly time has passed by during the experience. I love it when this happens during my weekly Economist sojourn. It so happened that this fun feeling was experienced with the edition for March 7th-13th. I dived in with my usual gusto and realized, some time later, that 2 hours had flown buy and I had lapped up some really interesting stories:
- Wishful, and dangerous, thinking – concerning the challenges Barrack Obama faces with such a large, and risky budget plan
- Whom the cap fits – the budget and the environment; how the whole proposal will come a cropper since it does not really work
- Dust to dust – water in California; explores the trading, or lack thereof, via any market based system and the resulting problems this creates
- Diversionary tactics – Louisiana; south-east Louisiana is sinking as the oceans are rising and what this means for the environment
- Lexington – Anger Management (Some Americans are getting mad as hell); not for the squeamish Democrats out there; how many Americans of all persuasions are getting fed up with the lack of action (too many words, not enough action) from the new President
- Technology Quarterly – A mousetrap for bacteria; fascinating idea to create a small cap that can actually attract bacteria in order to neutralize it; a neat application is inside hospitals where every year many patients get infected by “clean” environments
- Technology Quarterly – Fair comment; why is it that people write comments and reviews on books that might rarely be searched for?
- Technology Quarterly – Model Behavior; how software can help firms model crowds of people, or swarms of animals
- Technology Quarterly – The Internet’s Librarian; how Brewster Kahle is trying to build a free, online, collection of human knowledge
- Barbie at 50 – In the Pink; despite political correctness, Barbie continues to be successful (she adapts – what else would she do?)
- Face Value – Game on; how Sir Howard Stringer believes he is finally in a position to fix Sony
- Japan’s Economy – Rebalancing act
- Buttonwood – The Grand Illusion; discussion on efficient market theory ha been proved wrong, and right…very topical with the massive swing we see today of government control economy
- Euro-zone government bonds – beating the rush
- Science and Technology – the bees are back in town; the apparent slowing of “colony collapse disorder” where whole trenches of bee colonies are destroyed for no apparent reason
- Physics and philosophy – I’m not looking, honest; proof that the world does exist – really
There – 2 hours of my life lost to self indulgence!
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