Where the Car is King
More here – The Wall Street Journal
Reflections On A Night Out
Whilst in Sydney I was surprised to be able to go and see Chris Hadfield, Canadian astronaut, singer of David Bowie songs, all around overachiever and author of my favourite book of last year. Upon leaving the lovely old State Theatre my immediate thought was that every bullshit motivational speaker in the world should just…
Pattern Recognition And Sports Data
One of the most important findings in sports genetics is that your ability to improve with respect to a certain training program is mediated by your genes, so it’s really important to find the kind of training program that’s best tailored to your physiology. … The skills it takes for team sports, these perceptual skills,…
Lady Braga: Meet the Most Powerful Female Hedge Fund Manager in the World
Leda Braga stood on a stage at Geneva’s InterContinental hotel in February and sang Pharrell Williams’s Happy. “Can’t nothing bring me down, my level’s too high,” she shouted to about 80 employees of Systematica Investments, her new hedge fund firm, her voice hoarse after a day of meetings. “Nobody wanted to sing in the beginning,” says Braga,…
How Wall Street’s Bankers Stayed Out of Jail
On May 27, in her first major prosecutorial act as the new U.S. attorney general, Loretta Lynch unsealed a 47-count indictment against nine FIFA officials and another five corporate executives. She was passionate about their wrongdoing. “The indictment alleges corruption that is rampant, systemic, and deep-rooted both abroad and here in the United States,” she said. “Today’s action…
Which Character Strengths Are Most Predictive of Well-Being?
Click on the pic to be taken to the article. Source – Scientific American
ETF Liquidity Risk
So I finally got off my fat arse and updated the ETF table I produced a week or so ago. This time I added, last price, daily turnover and dollar liquidity. To calculate daily liquidity I simply multiplied the last price by the average 3 months volume as defined by Yahoo. This gives a fairly…
Conquering Complexity With Simple Rules
What do burglars, Stanford’s football team, and Federal Reserve chair Janet Yellen have in common? They all use simple rules to help them navigate complex challenges, according to a new book by Stanford professor Kathleen Eisenhardt. Many burglars follow just one rule that significantly lowers their risk of getting caught — they pass on houses where…
How Creativity Works in the Brain
I have embedded this report above but you can also download a pdf from here – National Endowment For the Arts.
Beware Of The Bubble In Stock Market Bubble Warnings
From my WTF file….. A warning to the bulls, however: Don’t make the mistake of thinking that the absence of bubble-like conditions means that a bear market couldn’t begin. That mistake would be the functional equivalent of the one made by sloppy-thinking commentators who ascribe “bubble” to anything they think might decline. It’s entirely possible for a…
Audi R8 2016
I was also reading a review of this bus in one of my car mags. In the review they have a small cut away box that lists the vital statistics of the car and the data box ends with a Pro’s and Con’s section and one of the drawbacks they listed was that it was…
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