Good video on how superstitious people are easily duped by psychics, mystics and other religious people. Richard Dawkins is the famous author of the God Delusion and Derren Brown is a psychic/stage magician.
… read more “Derren Brown and Richard Dawkins discuss Psychics”
Funny drug demotivational poster for your entertainment.
Andy sent me this good video by K-naan “What’s Hardcore?”‚ It makes a very good point about the glorification of violence and the end result of such thinking.
Below I made a demotivational poster on true love and its potentially painful consequences.
The BCS National Championship for college football went to Florida (13-1), as did the AP sports writers poll.‚ However, the true national champion for college football this year is Utah (13-0).
Utah went undefeated, winning 13 straight games.‚ Utah beat 4 ranked teams.‚ Utah beat Michigan in the Big House.‚ Utah beat #12 TCU.‚ Utah beat #14 BYU.‚ … read more “College Football National Champions: UTAH”
How can America prevent future financial crises like the current one in the housing market, the dot com bust and the big crash in 1987?
The solution is simple, requires no government regulation and is virtually foolproof: Make company leaders personally financially liable to shareholders for the performance of their companies.
Corporate bureacrats will scream bloody murder at this suggestion, but true entrepreneurs and business leaders will appreciate the straightforward incentive to carefully manage risk.‚ … read more “How to Prevent Future Financial Crises”
Funny demotivational poster mocking American’s attempts at exercise.
Found a great article on the New York Times about the risk models used by the so-called “finance geniuses” that were so tragically wrong.‚ It boils down to the fact that most of the risk models were based on historical data and did not consider the fact that markets can sometimes be wildly unpredictable… heck, there is even the miniscule probability that financial markets could go all the way to zero.‚ … read more “Financial Risk Management Article”
Entertaining demotivational picture of an emo kid.
Tomorrow, I have two things that I really want to do.
The first is to watch the BCS college football national championship game between Florida and Oklahoma.‚ Tim Tebow, Florida’s quarterback, is possibly the greatest college football player ever to step foot on the hallowed gridiron.‚ Tebow will battle Sam Bradford, this year’s undeserving Heisman Trophy winner.‚ … read more “The Great Debate: Body versus Brain”