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From the Freakonomics Blog:
…and received roughly 200 resumes. Many of them are impressive. From an anthropological standpoint, nearly every single one is interesting, just to see the kind of skills and traits that people use as employment signals.
This is what I love about the Internet - every now and again, you run into someone who […]
From GigaOM:
In the volatile 23 minutes of turmoil between the minute the disinformation hit the stock market at 8:55 PST and Apple’s announcement that the initial email “is fake and did not come from Apple,” nearly 15 million shares changed hands. That’s 60% of Apple’s normal volume in well under a half hour. That’s also […]
From the Wikipedia:
An Ames room is constructed so that from the front it appears to be an ordinary cubic-shaped room, with a back wall and two side walls perpendicular to each other and perpendicular to the horizontally level floor and ceiling. However, this is a trick of perspective and the true shape of the room […]
From The Age:
Other contestants have appeared traumatised by their confinement, judging by their wildly erratic behaviour. One South African man began secretly burying spoons in the garden. A female contestant in the UK became obsessed with stockpiling dead batteries.