Shall We Play a Game?: The Rise of the Military-Entertainment Complex
By Corey Mead via Salon Excerpted from “War Play: Video Games and the Future of Armed Conflict” The origins of the U.S. military’s involvement with video games lie in its century-old status as...
View Article‘Globesity’: US junk food industry tips global scales
Reuters / Finbarr O’Reilly Share on tumblr Tags Food, Globalization, Health, Politics, Robert Bridge, USA From Mexico to Qatar, obesity rates are soaring to unprecedented levels. The alarming trend is...
View ArticleMusic for Change: How Amnesty International Rocked The World
By ANDY GREENE Photo: Paul Natkin/WireImage Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band had been all over the planet with Sting, Peter Gabriel, Tracy Chapman and Youssou N’Dour by the time the 1988 Amnesty...
View ArticleMainstream economics is in denial: the world has changed
Despite the crash, the high priests of economics refuse to look at the big picture – and continue to prop up world elites By Aditya Chakrabortty Karl Marx: time he went back on the syllabus?...
View ArticlePrison Clearly Does Not Work: “Prisonomics”
Fresh from jail, the economist and author of Prisonomics explains why the system costs too much, locks up the wrong people and does not prevent reoffending Vicky Pryce at her home in south London.....
View ArticleBecoming attractions: A brief history of film trailers
by David Fear Trailers were initially little more than crudely spliced collections of film stills, sold to early theater exhibitors to be tacked onto the end of features. Hence the name “trailers”:...
View ArticleHow We Launched A Massive Product With 40+ Partners
Behind the scenes look at lining up partners to be part of Dwolla’s new product launch. This past week Dwolla launched a new product called Dwolla Credit. This was a big f’ing deal, as we now will have...
View ArticleHow to Get Busy People to Take Action When You Send an Email
We all get a lot of email. And we send off scores of them, too. For important emails we hope for replies or action. If you do the math on the number of inbound emails you get multiplied by the time it...
View ArticleThe Role Of Personal Chemistry In Investment Selection
My friend Matt Blumberg and I are co-teaching a class at Princeton in a few weeks. The subject of the class is the VC/entrepreneur relationship. As part of doing this class, Matt and I are doing two...
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