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Like water, gold simply can’t tell you what it used to be.

  • The Man Who Tried to Redeem the World with Logic

    The Man Who Tried to Redeem the World with Logic » Walter Pitts was used to being bullied. He’d been born into a tough family in Prohibition-era Detroit, where his father, a boiler-maker, had no trouble raising his fists to… more ›

  • The AWS IPO

    The AWS IPO » One of the technology industry’s biggest and most important IPOs occurred late last month, with a valuation of $25.6 billion dollars. That’s more than Google, which IPO’d at a valuation of $24. more ›

  • El Chapo Speaks

    El Chapo Speaks » Disclosure: Some names have had
 to be changed, locations not named, and an understanding was brokered with the subject that this piece would be submitted for the subject’s approval before publication. The subject did not ask… more ›

  • The Mogul of the Middle

    The Mogul of the Middle » Adam Fogelson, the chairman of Hollywood’s newest studio, listened to a pitch for a film called “Unmanned” with an encouraging smile. Hollywood pitches are jolly, elaborately courteous affairs. more ›

  • The rise and fall of Sony

    The rise and fall of Sony » Here is a Japanese fairy tale for Christmas. An allegory of insight, opportunism and a fall from favour. It is 1945. more ›

  • The Nation He Built

    The Nation He Built » On March 23, 2010, President Barack Obama signed the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, the 906-page health care reform law known as Obamacare. more ›

  • lauranadeszhda: Gods and monsters by Laura…

    lauranadeszhda: Gods and monsters by Laura Nadeszhda. Society6 shop • Redbubble shop •Instagram • Facebook • Pinterest • Wanelo more ›

  • The Conference of the Birds

    The Conference of the Birds » “Conference of the Birds” redirects here. For other uses, see Conference of the Birds (disambiguation). more ›

  • JE SUIS CELLULAIRE : Nikon Film Festival

    JE SUIS CELLULAIRE : Nikon Film Festival » Biographie Je m'appelle Watna Horemans et j'aime raconter des histoires Crédits Eva De Grave, Nora Alberdi, Nganji Mutiri, Yuri Sousa Lopes Pereira more ›

  • The Best of Satie http://youtu.be/YC56jnMf95Y

    The Best of Satie http://youtu.be/YC56jnMf95Y more ›