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The Buzzword Blog #6: Customer

If you are unsure what a buzzword is, please first read: The Buzzword Blog #2: What is a Buzzword? The Buzzword Blog #6: Customer The word ' customer ' comes via old French from the Latin consuetudinem, meaning 'habit' or 'useage&# ...

Blog Post - Patrick Lockerby - Jan 12 2010 - 3:01pm

Friends Influence How Much Children Eat

Parents are acutely aware of the influence that friends exert over their children's behavior-- how they dress, how they wear their hair, whether they drink or smoke. And now a new laboratory-based study has shown that friends may also influence how mu ...

Article - News Staff - Jan 12 2010 - 3:18pm

Online Poker: The More You Win, The More You Lose

The more hands of online poker a player wins, the more money that person is likely to lose, concludes a study conducted by a Cornell sociology doctoral student. The likely reason being that multiple wins are common for small stakes poker, and the more some ...

Article - News Staff - Jan 12 2010 - 5:58pm

Economists Lay Out Path To Fiscal Stability For U.S.

If left unaddressed, the U.S. government's growing debt will inevitably limit America's future wealth and risk a disruptive fiscal crisis, claims a new report from the National Research Council and the National Academy of Public Administration. T ...

Article - News Staff - Jan 13 2010 - 11:19pm

Enough With Government Waste Already!

As someone that has little use for government, I find myself in the awkward position of actually defending it when I hear the utter nonsense put forth by people suggesting that the private sector can do a better job. There is no doubt that any large organi ...

Blog Post - Gerhard Adam - Jan 13 2010 - 9:51pm

Reviewing The Review Of Sowell's "Intellectuals And Society"

It's interesting that in reading this review the first thing one is struck by is that Sowell is guilty of the very thing he's railing against.  Setting himself up as a individual intellectual with "ideas" to tell others how things shoul ...

Article - Gerhard Adam - Jan 15 2010 - 11:22pm

Go give the Rugbyologist a pat on the back

Yesterday evening, he succeeded in convincing his thesis committee to let him out with his PhD in hand. It's now Dr. Rugbyologist- if you thought he was belligerent before, just wait... Hopefully he'll be back to blogging when the hangover wears ...

Blog Post - Michael White - Jan 14 2010 - 10:24am

Black Vs. Mulatto in Haiti: The danger of misunderstanding the internal politics even as we help.

Pétionville,  Cité Soleil    Two neighborhoods, same city Port au Prince.  They could not be more different. ...

Blog Post - Hontas Farmer - Jan 15 2010 - 11:39pm

The Crooked Casino Pension Payments Paradigm

The Crooked Casino Pension Payments Paradigm Imagine going to a casino and winning six equal bets in a row. You then lose a bet.  After winning six more bets in a row, and then losing one, you go to collect your winnings, only to be told that the casino o ...

Blog Post - Patrick Lockerby - Jan 17 2010 - 2:15pm

The Greening Of Domestic Arguments

The Greening Of Domestic Arguments It seems that trying to go green can be a cause of domestic arguments.  I can see why.  Not everyone has the ability to see the big picture.  From a global perspective, a 'green' measure can seem to be a good t ...

Blog Post - Patrick Lockerby - Jan 18 2010 - 6:36pm