Fat Bastard (character) (Photo credit: Wikipedia) During my endocrinology training, I was captivated by a phenomenon I’d seen on the wards, and had just started to read about in the literature: type 2 diabetic patients receiving bariatric surgery exhibiting rapid, seemingly instantaneous improvements in their glycemic control, apparently related [...]

pubblicato il: 27/03/2012 - 05:59

Amgen Incorporated (AMGN) maintained its quarterly dividend of 36 cents per share. The dividend will be paid on June 7, 2012, to all stockholders of record as of the close of business on May 16, 2012. Shares are lower by about four tenths of a percent. In other dividend news, Ford [...]

pubblicato il: 15/03/2012 - 19:04

The Internet is full of awesome “I quit” stories, but not much tops Greg Smith’s departure from investment firm Goldman Sachs: he published his motives for leaving in the New York Times’ op-ed section. One of his many reasons? “The environment now is as toxic and destructive as I have ever seen it.” Well, Darth Vader also agreed that he didn’t [...]

pubblicato il: 15/03/2012 - 04:10

Lately I've been thinking a lot about what it was like for me being a geeky girl growing up and what it's like for geeky girls nowadays. It's a totally different world. Now, a geek is synonymous with anyone who has an Internet connection. When I was growing up being a [...]

pubblicato il: 26/03/2012 - 19:36

Deeper Inquiry Of Greg Smith’s Assertions: Might Goldman Sachs Have Intentionally Precipitated The Financial Crisis?

pubblicato il: 17/03/2012 - 15:11

  Former US Vice President Dick Cheney (Image credit: AFP/Getty Images via @daylife) Former Vice President Dick Cheney is recovering from a heart transplant to treat end-stage heart failure -- an often misunderstood disease that is one of the most costly health problems in America. According to the New York Times: Mr.

pubblicato il: 25/03/2012 - 04:38

Career coaches say it was a mistake for Greg Smith to publicly criticize his boss, Lloyd Blankfein. When Greg Smith decided to write a scathing op ed piece that ran in the New York Times yesterday, blasting his employer, Goldman Sachs, for sacrificing its clients’ best interest in favor of maximum [...]

pubblicato il: 15/03/2012 - 19:25

VideoAnd if so, was it cut and left cryptic to sell future DLC? Mass Effect 3 has been derided since its release as having an unsatisfying and spectacularly bad finale that has disappointed fans of the otherwise phenomenal series. But now a new conspiracy theory is circling the internet, and if [...]

pubblicato il: 21/03/2012 - 15:44

Is our gaming review system broken? (Image via @daylife) My colleagues Paul Tassi and Dave Thier both have excellent pieces up today on the issue of gaming journalism and the widely-held belief that many gaming journalists are either 'beholden' to the gaming industry or are systematically steered into softballing reviews due [...]

pubblicato il: 23/03/2012 - 20:57

photo courtesy of E!Online These days, I read the news and I want for many things that would improve the world. I want international intervention in Syria to stop the regime's massacre of innocent citizens. I want the American people to rise up and refuse to elect or reelect politicians who [...]

pubblicato il: 13/03/2012 - 22:17