Flying White House Over New York City

Here is a picture of the flying White House gracing the New York City sky.

In Obama’s Footstep

President Barack Obama has attributed the time spent as a community organizer as one of the most defining experiences in his life. Needless to say, the consequence of his service was far broader than the immediate assistance provided to the communities in Southside Chicago. That experience paved the way to his engagement in politics and, [...]

Baby Boom Birth Record Broken

It is official. The New York Times reports that 4,317,000 births in 2007 just edged out the figure for 1957, at the height of the baby boom. I suppose this provides yet another historical demarcation for this momentous past two years – the other one being the election of Barack Obama to be President of [...]

Why David Brooks Is Wrong

Of late, David Brooks, columnist at The New York Times and one of “The Liberal Media’s Conservatives,” has taken to pushing the idea that President Obama and his administration are stretched too thin in attempting to do too many things at once. His recent column was filled with sentiments that can be summed up in [...]

The Recession County By County

The recession as seen county by county, via NY Times. The highest unemployment level is found at Imperial County, California (22.6 %)

The Employment Gap

The gender gap in employment is one of the human phenomenon that has long persisted and is rapidly closing in part because of the dramatically larger proportion of men who are being affected by the recent wave of job losses. NY Times looks into this issue and presents an instructive graphics, which is shown below.

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The Big Debacle

The drastic losses incurred in the financial markets is one of the prime examples of a major collective human experience during the past year. This particular decline in the stock market value amounting to $7,000,000,000,000, which I would call the big debacle, is discussed in a NY Times article. Excerpt from the article:
…In a mere [...]

Alex the Parrot and Dr. Irene Pepperberg

An incredible story about animal cognition and linguistics. Over a span of more than 30 years Dr. Pepperberg conducted a research that has debunked the myth about “bird-brain,” and demonstrated that Alex, an African Grey parrot with a nut-sized brain, can learn to accomplish tasks that a toddler or some of the primates are believed [...]

Affinity Fraud and Ponzi Schemes

Have you, as I, been trying to make sense of the recent debacle that has been caused by Mr. Bernard Madoff? Are you puzzled by what the origin of the “Ponzi” scheme is? Here you will find a good account of how pyramid schemes have come to be known as ”Ponzi” schemes. Below is a graphic demonstrationof such a scheme from a December [...]

“The Story You’re Delivering is Always More Important…

… than the delivery system.” That is according to a publisher discusing about the transformation that is taking place in the way books are being read. Gregory Cowles, who blogs about books for NY Times, states that “2008 may be remembered as the year that e-books finally caught on.” The argument is based on his observation of [...]