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This is a great article. For more background on this growing industry, I recommend a recent academic study on the use of surveillance technology at the Los Angeles Police Departmen…

For a contrarian argument, it is worth considering the advice of Michael Porter in his seminal study "Competitive Strategy: Techniques for Analyzing Industries and Competitors" (pu…

Here are some classics in cognitive psychology with direct quotes that illustrate some of the main themes: Richard Rhodes (1986) Making of the Atomic Bomb "In scientific work, crea…

7. Primary use-value of crypto is to facilitate payments for ramsomware and other illegal activity.

When I studied economics in college, statistics was taught as a math course with virtually no straightforward explanation of the main concepts. Later as a graduate student in socio…

There is an interesting documentary film, "City 40" (2016), about the people who live in Ozersk, the town near the location of the Kyshtym disaster. The documentary features archiv…

> Christofi, also a novelist, describes "Dostoevsky in Love" as less a biography than a “reconstructed memoir”. His method, he explains, has been to “cheerfully commit the academic…

> the Andantino of D959 is on a different plane of alienation. It is all the more aberrant in a work which is generally so warm-hearted and affirmatory... “desolate grace behind wh…

Attention value investors: recall Warren Buffett's aphorism that "A great investment opportunity occurs when a marvelous business encounters a one-time huge, but solvable, problem"…

According to a recent book, the United States sells more weapons to Mexico than any other country in the world. Guadalupe Correa-Cabrera (2017) "Los Zetas Inc: Criminal Corporation…

Based on my experience as an IT worker, this article examines an essential problem of employee management: "The way the organization is managed will determine in large measure whet…