Futures on the Dow Jones Industrial Average (DJIA) are pointing toward a flat open this morning, as Wall Street digests yesterday's surge to fresh multi-year highs. Not only did the Dow eclipse 13,000, but the Nasdaq Composite finished north of 3,000 for the first time in 11 years. [...]

pubblicato il: 14/03/2012 - 14:03

A little bit of fibbing on social networks has become commonplace.who doesn't want to look their best? But not so much on LinkedIn, where honesty really is the best policy. Or else.

pubblicato il: 23/03/2012 - 13:39

Unlike other media, gaming makes us all participants. One of the really fascinating and sort of remarkable things to come out of the Mass Effect ending/DLC dissent movement is a discussion of story. What makes a good story in a game? How do we balance story with gameplay? And how can we [...]

pubblicato il: 17/03/2012 - 00:46

Image via philly.com If you’re searching high and low for tax deductions, take comfort from others who’ve done well at tax time. Of course, no one wants to be challenged, which argues for keeping to the straight and narrow. Nevertheless, if you’re adventurous it’s comforting to find someone challenged by the IRS [...]

pubblicato il: 19/03/2012 - 10:06

Dominique Strauss-Kahn cannot find peace. On Monday, judges in the Northern French city of Lille indicted him for "aggravated pimping" in relation to a prostitution wring dubbed the Carlton Affair by French media.

pubblicato il: 27/03/2012 - 01:05

Do pullbacks in this sector today anticipate buying on the news tomorrow?

pubblicato il: 13/03/2012 - 14:41

If you’ve been following the news about Trayvon Martin, the unarmed teen who was shot and killed by a neighborhood watch volunteer claiming he acted in self defense, you may be wondering why the man thought the teen was armed. The 17-year old evidently had nothing in his hands except [...]

pubblicato il: 21/03/2012 - 21:35

Professor Robin Dunbar is best known for his work related to how many stable social relationships the human brain can manage. In earlier research, he argued that the optimal number of active relationships is 150 -- now famously known as the "Dunbar Number." Dunbar is once again delving into the brain's social capacity, but this [...]

pubblicato il: 26/03/2012 - 04:09

pubblicato il: 23/03/2012 - 17:38

By John Tamny It says here that HBO’s The Wire, which ran from 2002-2008, is the greatest television drama of all time. The show, essentially an historical-fiction style documentary on the tragedy that is Baltimore (MD), notably appealed to all sides of the political spectrum. Liberals of the American variety seemed [...]

pubblicato il: 20/03/2012 - 22:53