The 9th episode in the Symphony of Science music video series: «Ode to the Brain».
Archive | April, 2011
Better To Buy Or Rent?
29 Apr
Trulia made this neat interactive feature as an indicator of where it’s better to rent vs buy in USA.
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HT: The Big Picture.
Destino By Disney And Dali
29 Apr
This short animation, Destino, created by Walt Disney and Salvador Dali in 1945, was released by The Walt Disney Company in 2003. Still Stunning.
Bull Taming 700 Horses
29 Apr
Lamborghini Aventador LP700-4 specifications:
- Performance: 0-62 mph (0-100 km/h) in 2.9 sec and a top speed of 217 mph (350 km/h).
- Formula One-style suspension and a lightweight carbon fibre monocoque.
- 6.5 litre V12 engine, producing 691 hp (515 kW).
- Its transmission, a single-clutch 7-speed semi-automatic, is built by Graziano Trasmissioni. Gear-shifts accomplished in 50 milliseconds.
- Price: $ 379.700.
- Arrival: August, 2011.
From the company website:
«Lamborghini’s new flagship bears the name of a bull, naturally, a particularly courageous specimen from the world of the Spanish Corrida. Aventador was a bull bred by the Don Celestino Cuardi Vides family that in October 1993 entered into battle at the Saragossa Arena, earning the “Trofeo de la Peña La Madroñera” for the outstanding courage shown during the fight.»
More information here.
Friday Financial And Royal Frenzy
29 Apr
Image by JeanM1 via Flickr
Assorted links for today:
Friday Outlook: Stocks Could End April on Earnings Tail Wind.
Live footage from The Royal Wedding: the pre-nuptial frenzy, the procession, the ceremony and the after-party madness live from London.
WSJ: William and Kate Pronounced Husband and Wife.
And, a date to remember: the first debate of the Republican presidential primary season, of 2012, is on May 5.
Click to transfer to WSJ’s interactive graph
As posted earlier, the economic benefits of UK’s royals & the T-Mobile ad:
Tweet And Drive?
28 Apr
Handy demos of the latest BMW Apps, featuring integrated Web Radio, Facebook, Twitter, iPod and Pandora functions.
HT: Paul Kedrosky.
Virals Of The Day
28 Apr
Wall Street finishes solidly higher after central bank’s move: Nasdaq’s back at Dec. 2000 level.
Thursday Financial Outlook: Economic Data, Earnings Back in Focus After FOMC.
Colbert Nation full April 25 & full April 26 episodes.
LinkedIn Data: Name your child «Peter» if you want him to be a CEO.
Why people tend to marry partners of similar education levels.
American College Graduation Rates and Voting Illustrated.
Romney to Trump: Obama Doesn’t Need a Birth Certificate.
The Biggest US Economic Story Of The Year: The Federal Government vs Boeing.
Uh-Oh: UK’s version of Jersey Shore, The Geordie Shore, will premiere on May 24th, 2011.
Sarah Palin portrayed by Julianne Moore: First Photo.
Click for a closer view
Order, Order!
27 Apr
UK’s Labour has asked British Prime Minister, David Cameron, to apologise after he told the shadow Treasury chief secretary, Angela Eagle, to «calm down, dear. Listen to the doctor». Hilarious.
Right-Wing Populist Power
27 Apr
Der Spiegel investigates: How Dangerous Is Finland to the Euro?
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Source:
Triumph of Right-Wing Populists. Sven Böll and Maria Marquart, Der Spiegel.
HT: The Big Picture.
Assorted Highlights
25 Apr
James Altucher’s 100 rules for being an entrepreneur.
Earnings Watch: Updates, advisories and surprises.
Management Guide: Twelve ways leaders fail new managers.
Latest IMF estimates: Age of America nears end.
Donald Trump’s shockingly simple energy policy.
Cellphone Economics: Free Markets Spread Wealth.
Oh, the details! Just love the graphic animation here.
Conan O’Brien – hilarious guest moments.
Brutus, the pet grizzly bear.
I probably need a translator here: the Scottish dialect.
Financial Events – Week 17
24 Apr
The key economic reports for the week ahead:
- Monday: New Home sales.
- Tuesday: Case-Shiller house prices and FOMC‘s 2 day meeting starts.
- Wednesday: FOMC press briefing.
- Thursday: Q1 advance GDP report.
Full Schedule for Week of April 24th from Calculated Risk. U.S. Markets Outlook from MarketWatch here and CNBC here.
Cartoon from Jim Morin on the S&P downgrade. HT: Barry Ritholtz, The Big Picture.
Easter Weekend Virals
23 Apr
Presidental Wealth: The Complete Net Worth Of The American Presidents: From Washington To Obama.
Ian Morris on Why the West Rules (audio).
Seth Godin notes: The realization is now.
The U.K. Telegraph reviews 100 cruise ships.
The Economist Daily Chart: The increasing importance of Chinese investment in sub-Saharan Africa.
Bragging masked in a faux-humble guise.
Secret snow: despite one of the worst Alpine winters in years, there is a European skiing nirvana.
HT: Paul Kedrosky.
Free Soloing: Ropeless Climbing
21 Apr
Watch the video on National Geographic’s site here or click on the image.
About the clip [via NG]:
«Alex Honnold makes the first free solos of the largest walls in North America. He scales 2,000 feet with only shoes and chalk bag—no rope, no safety, and no room for error. Though he’s a superhero on the walls, off the rock Alex is a shy, self-effacing young guy living in his van.»
Wednesday Entourage
20 Apr
A Must-Read (see): James Altucher interviews Henry Blodget, former Wall St. analyst and now editor of the Business Insider, about Eliot Spitzer’s attack, the abyss, and light at the end of the tunnel.
U.S futures pops as a blow-out quarterly performance from Intel and a strong showing from IBM emboldened investors ahead of Apple’s results.
Apple Profit Nearly Doubles After iPhone’s Verizon Debut.
Bulls rally near 3-year high as home-sales data and tech aid Street.
Your iPhone and iPad are keeping track of everywhere you go, and you can see it.
Brussels demands that UK taxpayers pay £682m extra to the EU to meet proposed £5.5bn increase in spending.
Ten hilarious charts about sex.
The true cost of the Royal Family.
A professor and a former criminal defense attorney tells you why you should avoid talking to the police.
Runs in the family: Tiger’s niece Cheyenne Woods.
Excellent slope engineers and impressing camera work in this biking video.
Nutty TED talk by Clifford Stoll (infamous for this article from 1995).
Ramps? Nah.
Wrongologist: Embracing Fallibility
20 Apr
Another splendid TED talk from Kathryn Schulz, the author of «Being Wrong: Adventures in the Margin of Error.»
HT: Paul Kedrosky.
Midweek Virals
19 Apr
Fidel Castro resigns as head of the Cuban Communists, allowing Cubans to buy and sell property for first time since 1959.
Goldman Sachs’ first-quarter earnings of $1.56 a share nearly doubled analyst estimates.
Looks like the happiness curve is U-shaped – which explains why the middle-aged are grumpy.
Animation of a construction that will encase the unsafe Chernobyl reactor.
WSJ Markets
- Fed's Varied Voices Leave Market GuessingBernanke said the Fed could start reducing bond buying "in the next few meetings" but warned against premature action, amid conflicting messages that roiled markets.
- Gap Is Starting to Look OverdressedAhead of the Tape: Profits never go out of fashion. Sadly, the same can't be said for the wares on display at Gap and its competitors.
- Ghana Looks to Join Bond BandwagonGhana hopes to become the latest African country to ride the wave of cheap borrowing with the sale of a new bond aimed at international markets for only the second time in its history.
- Copper Rises on Supply ConcernsCopper prices settled near six-week highs but pulled back from earlier peaks, as worries about the future of the Fed's monetary stimulus tempered suggestions of tighter supplies.
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