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[New Scientist]: Global warming might shrink ant workers by as much as a third, says
Michael Kaspari at the University of Oklahoma, US, and the Smithsonian
Tropical Research Institute in Panama, who carried out the study: 'And
since ant species with small workers appear to be particularly
successful at invading, ant invasions - already destructive - may
become more common in a warming world.'
Who'd o' thunk it. (I'm going to guess this story will be ridiculed by
those ideologically opposed to global warming -- and science -- and
added to the ledger by the big insurance companies' actuaries, who need
to take risk seriously.)
11:06:27 PM
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[The Long Tail]: The Bottom of the Pyramid
(BOP) argument is essentially based on commodification. Take existing
goods and services and make them an order of magnitude or two cheaper,
either to buy or to make but ideally both. Typically, this means
reducing goods to their bare essentials and delivering them on a
massive scale.... The Long Tail, on the other hand, is about nicheification.
7:52:03 AM
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Now please pay me anyway.
[Right Reality]: David Batsone passes along this gem from The New York Times:
The criminal liability that chief
executives now face is an odd outgrowth of the same logic that won them
such huge paychecks in the 1990's. Of course they were worth millions,
the chief executives of old argued, because the success of the company
could not have happened without their hard-driving involvement. Now
some of the same chief executives find themselves in the uncomfortable
position of arguing that while they were richly compensated, when in
came to corporate financial activity, they were little more than
caretakers who paid little attention to details.
Can't have it both ways, folks! (I've had to learn a little finance to run my company. Shouldn't you?)
7:21:22 AM
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© Copyright 2006 Gil Friend.
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