coming_soon_financial_turmoil_in_europe_and_the_united_states_essays June 02, 2012 Ever since the Crash of 2008 there has been a widespread recognition, both among economists and the general public, that economic theory has failed. But there is no consensus on the causes and the extent of that…

The following is edited and adapted from http://sern.ucalgary.ca/courses/seng/693/W98/alang/minor.html It is intended to supplement personal understanding and enhance critical self-examination of yourself as a communicator. Styles of Thinking "How do people think about things?" Harrison and Bramson,…

EVER since I moved three years ago to Portland, Ore., that hotbed of all things hipster, I’ve been trying to get a handle on today’s youth culture. The style is easy enough to describe — the skinny pants, the retro hats, the wall-to-wall tattoos. But style is superficial. The question is, what’s…

foiegras Every time I post about foie gras, I get hate mail. Get ready to comment, because here we go again. Foie gras is one of the most delicious foods on the planet. Not only that, it’s one of the most nutrient-dense foods, full of fat soluble activators including vitamins A, D, E, and K that…

1. “We’re closing in on a deal,” my agent told me on the phone. “I’m just turning him upside-down now and shaking him for loose change.” It was midday on a Monday in early August of the year 2000. The Nasdaq, rested from its breather in the spring, was sprinting back up over 4,000…

RT @midhirdedanann: so if you go to Sarah Lawrence, you are in desperate need of sex...shocker of the century http://ow.ly/4DrYI

Another example why to watch instead of asking what people want: How Walmart lost $1billion on a redesign. http://t.co/Pk0VYHl via @danachis

“When I moved to the neighborhood in 2002,” Elizabeth Bard, author of “Lunch in Paris: A Love Story With Recipes,” wrote in an e-mail, “they called our street the ‘rue des squatters’ because of all the illegal squats and an infamous ‘tent city’ that had been set up by tenants of a crumbling…

Anna Wintour, photographed at her suite at the Paris Ritz, taking in a tennis match between couture shows. Mario Testino To understand what’s happened to Anna Wintour and to the fashion industry as a whole, it helps to look at two photographs. The first is a 1955 Richard Avedon shot of the model…

“GREECE has been a leftist country since 1974,” laments Yannis Stournaras, head of IOBE, a private-sector think-tank. Perched behind his desk in an office not far from the Acropolis, Mr Stournaras argues that the pendulum of Greek politics swung to the left after the end of the military dictatorship…

Editors’ note: The following is a basic primer on what’s happening in Libya. It was updated continuously from February through the beginning of April. On Thursday, October 20, the Libyan Prime Minister announced that Moammar Qaddafi had been killed as his home town of Sirte was taken by fighters…

In a statement issued today by Twitter on its official developer mailing list, the company informed third-party developers that they should no longer attempt to build conventional Twitter client applications. In a move to increase the “consistency” of the user experience, Twitter wants more control…