Thursday, June 30, 2011

How it works

How it works


How the iPod Explains Globalization

Posted: 30 Jun 2011 08:56 AM PDT

Today, America's innovators and entrepreneurs are more effective drivers of job growth outside the United States than at home. But there are winners and losers both in the United States and abroad.

Don't show, don't tell? Direct instruction can thwart independent exploration

Posted: 30 Jun 2011 09:27 AM PDT

It turns out that there is a "double-edged sword" to pedagogy: explicit instruction makes children less likely to engage in spontaneous exploration and discovery. A new compared the behavior of children given a novel toy under four different conditions, finding that children expressly taught one of its functions played with the toy for less time and discovered fewer things to do with it than ...

Obama's Health Care Spies

Posted: 30 Jun 2011 07:59 AM PDT

And so it begins … well, almost.Last week we learned the Obama administration planned to recruit "mystery shoppers" who would pose as patients and call primary care doctors' offices to find out (1) if they were accepting new patients, (2) whether they would accept private insurance while declining Medicare or Medicaid, and (3) how long it would take to schedule an appointment.After a storm of ...

How that Oracle and Pillar earn-out really works

Posted: 30 Jun 2011 02:30 AM PDT

Losses need reversing Comment Pillar investors will only receive cash from Oracle for the Pillar acquisition if Pillar revenues in 2014 exceed net losses from 2011 to 2014.…

Institutional vacuum at local level

Posted: 29 Jun 2011 11:51 AM PDT

The author cites examples such as how development works and expenditure on regular provision of civic services get concentrated around the residences of municipal officers to the neglect of the rest of the city (in Himachal Pradesh); and how there is nexus between municipal officials, contractors and private operators to deliver basic services, be they of sanitation or solid waste management (in ...

'Red' Producer Offers More Details On Sequel Plans

Posted: 30 Jun 2011 08:25 AM PDT

Way back in January, we got word that a sequel was in the works for "Red," last year's well-received adaptation of Warren Ellis and Cully Hamner's comic book miniseries. After all, Helen Mirren is on board for another go-around as one of the greatest secret agents ever to wield a sniper rifle, so why not? When [...]

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