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“A very little key will open a very heavy door” (Charles Dickens, Hunted Down)
Why Academics’ Writing Stinks
Via Arts and Letters Daily and The Chronicle of Higher Education: Why should a profession that trades in words and dedicates itself to the transmission of knowledge so often turn out prose that is turgid, soggy, wooden, bloated, clumsy, obscure, unpleasant to read,...
Why I Stopped Hating Christian Music
Via Christianity Today: Why I Stopped Hating Christian Music | Third Culture | A Blog by Peter Chin.Key statement: "I realized something that made me have a lot more respect and compassion for people who are in the Christian music industry: they are in a...
Not your father’s bank
Via Forbes, a provocative statement about the true nature of banks: But there is a very real sense in which a consumer bank should not really be regarded as a financial institution at all. It’s a computing system which happens to do finance. Which means that the...
Difference between organizational buyers and consumers
Via Houston Chronicle: “Because an organizational buyer typically makes large-scale purchase decisions, the organizational buyer will use a different evaluation of risk versus reward than the evaluation used by a typical consumer.” From...
Difference between organizational buyers and consumers
Via Houston Chronicle: “Because an organizational buyer typically makes large-scale purchase decisions, the organizational buyer will use a different evaluation of risk versus reward than the evaluation used by a typical consumer.” From...
New resumes to hit the job market
Via The News Tribune: The Army plans to shed 60,000 troops, or 11 percent of its active force, to reach 490,000 by fiscal 2017. The Marine Corps will cut 20,000 – 5,000 a year over the next four years – to reach an end-strength of 182,100. Read more here:...
New resumes to hit the job market
Via The News Tribune: The Army plans to shed 60,000 troops, or 11 percent of its active force, to reach 490,000 by fiscal 2017. The Marine Corps will cut 20,000 – 5,000 a year over the next four years – to reach an end-strength of 182,100. Read more here:...
Bridge-building, the robot way
Via IEEE Spectrum: Robots are fairly decent at using prefabricated materials to build things, but when you get out into an unstructured environment (whether it’s somewhere like a forest or a city after a major disaster), it doesn't really make sense to bring anything...