Greek shares? Yassou! (Haaretz Daily)
Great calamity also offers great opportunity, it's said. Investors have found, time and again (usually in hindsight) that the right thing to do in the throes of financial crisis is to buck the stampeding-herd mentality.
Brock Cohen: UCLA Students: KCRW Pledge Drive is "The Most Epic Drinking Game Ever" (The Huffington Post)
KCRW's pledge drive became a one-week hedonistic window during which students from across UCLA's Greek system flocked to the Delta Tau Delta house to play "basically a non-stop week-long game of quarters."
Mitosis [Neurotopia] (ScienceBlogs)
Since Sci wrote so recently about the preservation of somatic cells and gametes for species regulation, she thought it might be a good idea to run through some basic concepts. REALLY basic. Like the stuff you had in high school and forgot. That kind of basic. She was also inspired in this post by reading so recently about HeLa cells, and how they allowed scientists to make great strides in the ...
Fashioning rescue not easy for euro zone (Market Watch)
Investors are pressing for a bailout of Greece and possibly other debt-burdened Southern European nations, but big questions still remain on how policy-makers might go about fashioning any such rescue plan.
We deserve the oppobrium (New Matilda)
In reply to Eating Our Way To Racial Tolerance : We deserve the oppobrium because of our exploitative approach to foreign students—even if the Rudd government itself may be just the inheritor of Howard’s and Costello’s particularly short-termist nasty policies. This is the result of long term policy neglect and will only be changed over the long term. I had a slightly different take on this in ...
Gold Seeker Closing Report: Gold and Silver Gain Over 1% (GoldSeek.com)
Gold extended last week’s late after hours access trade gains and rose to as high as $1073.70 in late Asian trade before it fell back off in London and dropped to as low as $1061.50 by about 9:30AM EST in New York, but it then chopped its way back higher into the close and ended with a gain of 1.24%. Silver climbed to $15.305 and dropped to $14.92 before it also rallied back higher and ended ...
Euro - Anchor of Stability? (Kitco.com)
The world’s attention is on the fiscal malaise in Greece and Portugal. Just a few months ago, policy makers told banks to shore up their balance sheets with more sovereign debt.
Wish: New Orleans newest stores offer a something for everyone (New Orleans Times-Picayune)
Love to shop? Check out these new stores open in the New Orleans area.
The great American migration (FIFA)
FIFA.com looks at the latest in a growing batch of USA internationals heading overseas to test their mettle in the world's most competitive leagues.
Contempt -- StudioCanal Collection (Blu-ray) (DVD Talk)
Highly Recommended The Film: Contempt (Le Mepris) is a challenge, an odd thing for it to be seeing as how it's Jean-Luc Godard's closest attempt at creating mainstream cinema. Conversations are stilted and uncomfortable, the characters rarely appealing, and the relationships developing are clearly headed towards a brick wall; however, that's all the intent of the French auteur's film, as the ...