Quote of the Day for Thursday, 12 January 2017 by Criss Jami on Work and Respect

“A man who goes into a restaurant and blatantly disrespects the servers shows a strong discontent with his own being. Deep down he knows that restaurant service is the closest thing he will ever experience to being served like a king.” 

- Criss Jami

Interesting Reads for Thursday, 12 January 2017: Planet Sized Spitballs, Self-Driving Cars, Human Population Over Time and More...

The Milky Way's Black Hole is Spitting out Planet Size Spitballs     (Phys Org)

Must see video from the American Museum of Natural History "Human Population Over Time"

The Limited Is Closing All 250 Of Its Stores     (Fortune)

Mall Companies, Including REITs, Falling As Sears Closes More Stores     (Bloomberg) 

Scientists discover an Alzheimer drug which makes teeth grow back      (Telegraph UK)

16 questions about self-driving cars    

(Frank Chen of Andreessen Horowitz)

Jim Chanos Interview: Is a big change underway in Global Capitalism?    (Institute for New Economic Thinking) 

Trulia reports a doubling of homes listed "For Sale" moving to "Pending" and back to "For Sale" again      (Bloomberg)  

Could Vancouver, B.C., be looking at a drop of -50% to -80% in peak home prices?

(Howe Street) 

Infographic on Currency and the Fall of the Roman Empire     (Visual Capitalist)

The Presidency as Ad Agency: Donald Trump urges Americans to buy from L. L. Bean 
(Huffington Post)     

Quote of the Day for Wednesday, 11 January 2017 by Eric Hoffer

People who bite the hands that feed them usually lick the boot that kicks them

- Eric Hoffer

Interesting Reads for Wednesday, 11 January 2017: Blue Eyes,

Blue-eyed humans have a single, common ancestor  (Science Daily)

China: Slideshow of Photovoltaic Generation Project Floating Above Fishery Waters and Now in Operation      (Xinhuanet) 

Graphene OLED produced in European labs means cellphone screens which will not break and which are only one atom thick
(Phys Org)

Investors could be blindsided by a cluster of Fed rate hikes this year     (Marketwatch)

Ex-High Schol Football Player Leaves Behind A Journal Of Suffering From CTE Before Taking His Life      (GQ)

Two Orlando Police Officers Die Trying To Bring Murder Suspect to Justice, One Shot, One In Wreck of Police Motorcycle in Pursuit

(Huffpost)

The extraordinary size of Amazon in one chart     (The Big Picture)

Next Apple iPhone iteration to be made from forged stainless steel instead of milled aluminum
(Forbes) 

Two wide-moat dividend paying stocks to consider on dips   (Dividend Growth Investor)

1930s-Like Demographic Headwinds Are Restraining the US Economy    (Bloomberg)

Bitcoin plunges as Chinese authorities increase scrutiny      (Marketwatch) 

Bitcoin could soar if the Winklevoss ETF is approved      (Marketwatch)

The path to $10,000 Bitcoin    (Of Two Minds)

Intel Chiefs reportedly told Donald Trump last week in a classified meeting that the Russians have something on him (Business Insider)


Trump needs a win/win deal. Putin is a win/lose guy     (Bloomberg)

Interesting Reads for Tuesday, 10 January 2017: Big Freeze '62, Brain Concussions, Mexicans Angry, FOX Sued, Cold Fusion and More . . .

British rail workers battle winter’s worst in this kinetic, 1965 Oscar®-nominated classic about the "BigFreeze" of 1962-1963   (AEON) 

Hey, Bill Nye, Is Cold Fusion Really Possible?
(Big Think) 

A mouth guard with motion sensors showed what happened to this football player's brain at the moment of collision   (New York Times)

Fox News settled sexual lawsuit against Bill O' Reilly by Juliet Huddy, says NY Times
(Bloomberg)

America's Most Hated Companies      

(Wall Street 24/7)

The top eleven charts and graphs of 2016 for Dollars and Sense Real World Economics    (Dollars and Sense) 

Tren Griffin's Advice for Jack Dorsey and Twitter    (25iq Blog)

Mexico: Thousands Protest Against Higher Gasoline Prices . . .  Over 1500 Arrested   

(Reuters)

Mexico again says there is 'no way' it will pay for Trump wall     (Yahoo/Reuters) 

Treasury Nominee Steve Mnuchin's Bank Accused of "Widespread Misconduct" in Leaked Memo     (Intercept) 

Playing Defense: What is Country For?     (Tom Dispatch) 

Quote of the Day for Tuesday, 10 January 2016, by Richard Feynman on Religion

It doesn't seem to me that this fantastically marvelous universe, this tremendous range of time and space and different animals, and all the different planets, and all these atoms with all their motions, and so on, all this complicated thing can merely be a stage so that God can watch human beings struggle for good and evil - which is the view that religion has. The stage is too big for the drama.

- Richard Feynman*


* Rock's note about this All-American hero: On May 1, 1959, Bill Stout of television station KNXT interviewed Richard Feynman and the soon to be Nobel Prize winning (1965) theoretical physicist uttered the words above. 

Those were harsh times for Atheists in the USA and anyone giving air time or ink to their beliefs. KNXT felt the need (in the words of James Gleick, noted Feynman biographer) "to suppress the interview". 

The interview did not run, until after Feynman had been asked to redo the interview and Feynman wrote back to station management objecting to a "direct censorship of the expression of my views."

Interesting Links for Monday, 9 January 2017: Safer Football, Currency War, Peanut Revived and More

Can Technology Make Football   Safer?            (The New Yorker)

English Is the Language of Science. That Isn't Always a Good Thing: How a bias toward English-language science can result in preventable crises, duplicated efforts, and lost knowledge.      (Smithsonian)  

Bitcoin will never be a currency. It is something way weirder    (Wired)

The Lost Ancestral Peanut of the South is Revived           (NPR)

Does the weedkiller Roundup™ cause fatty liver disease, obesity, diabetes and more?    (The Ecologist)

The Growing Threat To Global Trade: A Currency War      (Barron's)

The Economic Risk of Ignoring Arithmetic
(Hussman Funds)

Tom Tomorrow's latest cartoon: "Farewell Address     (Daily Kos) 

Trump calls out Meryl Streep after her speech at the Golden Globes       (The Daily Beast)

Trump™ Organization is $350 Million in Debt to Wall Street; He Owes Another $1.5 Billion in Partnerships Where He Owns 30% or more. 150 firms own his debt creating a huge potential conflict.
(Indy Channel)


Trump Aide Monica Crowley Plagiarized Large Portions of 2012 Book    (Slate)

Quote for the Day, 9 January 2016 by Comedian George Carlin on Addictions

Just cause you got the monkey off your back doesn't mean the circus has left town.

-  George Carlin

Interesting Links for the Weekend, 7th and 8th of January 2016: Wired Fiction, IoT Hacks, Cruise Line Fine and More

The Great Dying: 

Happiness Comes On Day 5

(Wired - The Fiction Issue: 

"Tales From An Uncertain Future")

UpportunityU Interview: "Journey to Mars" with NASA's Jim Wilson     (UpportunityU)

How To Stop Your Home From Being Hacked Through The Internet of Things
(Visual Capitalist) 

Drugs du jour: LSD in the 60s, Ecstasy in the 80s, Smart Drugs today     (AEON)

How I memorized an entire chapter from "Moby Dick"     (Vox)

Biggest Fine Ever for Cruise Line Dumping of Waste into the Ocean    (Key West the Blue Newspaper) 

The US Navy's Big Mistake: Building Tons of Aircraft Carriers    (War Is Boring)


Trump Nominee Jay Clayton Will Be the Most Conflicted SEC Chair Ever    (Matt Taibbi - Rolling Stone)

Quote for the Weekend, 7th and 8th of January 2017 by US Astronaut Ellen Ochoa on Perseverance

What everyone in the astronaut corps shares in common is not gender or ethnic background, but motivation, perseverance, and desire - the desire to participate in a voyage of discovery. 

- Ellen Ochoa