Via Scoop.it – Creating the Future BEIJING — China plans to launch space labs and manned ships and prepare to build space stations over the next five years, according to a plan released Thursday that shows the country’s space program is gathering momentum.Via www.huffingtonpost.com
Posts published in December 2011
Via Scoop.it – Demand Transformation A turf war prompts scuffles between groups of Greek Orthodox and Armenian Christian clerics armed with brooms in Bethlehem’s Church of the Nativity.Via www.bbc.co.uk
Via Scoop.it – Internet of the absurd A century ago, one of the world’s first hackers used Morse code insults to disrupt a public demo of Marconi’s wireless telegraph. Nevil Maskelyne – doing it for the lulzVia www.newscientist.com
Via Scoop.it – Demand TransformationThere is only one valid definition of a business purpose: to create a customer. A very good article that addresses some core problems in corporate governance. It identifies several legal changes that coul rectify them and get corporations back to creating real value.Via www.forbes.com
Via Scoop.it – Demand Transformation Those wanting the Army Private imprisoned are afraid to condemn the virtually identical acts of Daniel Ellsberg… Here is what Ellen Knickmeyer, the Baghdad Bureau Chief for The Washington Post during the Iraq War, documented about the Iraq War logs Manning is accused of releasing: Thanks to WikiLeaks, though, I now know the…
Via Scoop.it – Demand TransformationA paper from the New England Complex Systems Institute claims that they have found evidence that traders executed a “bear raid” on Citigroup in 2007, precipitating the financial collapse. “Bear raids” have been considered a risk to markets since the Great Depression, and a financial regulation called the “uptick rule” was instituted in 1938 to…