http://articles.latimes.com/2012/feb/17/business/la-fi-0217-ct-demand-media-20120217
The Market
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Feb 12
Financial Trading Markets Actually Giant Botnets
It’s like a botnet worm. Only, instead of eating data it erases market value.
…the Dow Jones stock index fell 600 points in just 6 minutes. Its nadir represented the deepest single-day decline in that market’s 114-year history… the “flash crash,” as it came to be known, was big, unexpected and scary — and a new study says flash events actually happen routinely, at speeds so fast they don’t register on regular market records, with potentially troubling consequences for market stability.
via Nanosecond Trading Could Make Markets Go Haywire | Wired Science | Wired.com.
15
Feb 12
How Blue America Subsidizes Red America
I don’t really understand this chart, but I get the idea behind it. I’d also like to see someone illustrate the correlation between state-by-state ideology against urban versus rural population.
A very neat Aaron Carroll chart shows that, on average, conservative states feature more “dependency” on federal programs than do liberal ones.
6
Feb 12
Super Rich Keep Sotheby’s and Christie’s Afloat
Thank God. I was starting to worry.
http://www.artlyst.com/articles/super-rich-keep-sothebys-and-christies-afloat
1
Feb 12
Double Mushroom Cloud: Encore Performance for the “WMD Fear”
Ten years ago we were told Saddam Hussein was working on WMDs. Now we’re preparing to attack Iraq on the same premise.
Watch “Going to war with Iran on an “if”?” on YouTube
1
Feb 12
World War 3 is so Predictable
Cliche World War 3 Causus Belli.
In Advance Of Third Aircraft Carrier Approaching Iran, US Nuclear Sub And Destroyer Enter Red Sea
30
Jan 12
Food crops damaged by pollution crossing continents
Whoops.
The findings have important implications for international strategies to tackle global food shortages, as well as global climate and human health strategies.
Kyle Hayes