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» Posted by Martin Weil on June 26, 2008 Barron's writes in their EconoDay Consumer confidence is unusually low...But there is an expansion still underway and this is not a time of war, which makes the results difficult to figure. Huh? Tip from The Big Picture.
Waste in the US
» Posted by Martin Weil on April 02, 2008 In pictures
Where are the customers' jets?
» Posted by Martin Weil on January 07, 2008 A private banker told me last year about a New York real-estate magnate who asked his 11-year-old daughter what she wanted for her birthday. Her answer: a ride on an American Airlines plane. "But we have our own jet," the magnate replied. "I know, but I want to ride on a big plane with other people," she said. "I want to see what an airport looks like on the inside." From The Wealth Report
Best of everything, 2007
» Posted by Martin Weil on November 30, 2007 Click here for a great compendium of online "Best of 2007" lists. Best books, best music, best weblogs and best places to live are some of the more typical lists linked on the site. More eclectic are the top Japanese buzzwords and best UFO photos. In between, there are lists for just about every taste.
Tips for holiday travel with (shudder) young children
» Posted by Martin Weil on November 15, 2007 Maybe you've been there, too -- not the cheesy hotel, but in a car or plane with small children, clinging to the last threads of your sanity. And you shudder at the thought of going through it again this holiday travel season. Or maybe you're planning to travel with baby for the first time this year and you're lying awake at night in terror at the thought. Tip #4: Team board. The airlines think they're doing you a favor by letting you jump the line with your small children. But you're just being forced to spend even more time trying to keep a squirming child calm in a seat. So if there are two adults in your party, send one in first with the carry-on bags to secure a spot for them in the overhead bins. The other can hang back, run around with the kids then corral them into the plane after everyone has boarded. See the remaining 9 useful tips from Kiplinger's online.
2007 Ig Nobel Winners
» Posted by Martin Weil on October 06, 2007 Presenting the improbable (because it is my blog and I can) Biology - Prof. Dr. Johanna E.M.H. van Bronswijk of Eindhoven University of Technology, The Netherlands, for doing a census of all the mites, insects, spiders, pseudoscorpions, crustaceans, bacteria, algae, ferns and fungi with whom we share our beds each night. Chemistry - Mayu Yamamoto of the International Medical Center of Japan, for developing a way to extract vanillin -- vanilla fragrance and flavoring -- from cow dung. Linguistics - Juan Manuel Toro, Josep B. Trobalon and Nuria Sebastian-Galles, of Universitat de Barcelona, for showing that rats sometimes cannot tell the difference between a person speaking Japanese backwards and a person speaking Dutch backwards. Nutrition - Brian Wansink of Cornell University, for exploring the seemingly boundless appetites of human beings, by feeding them with a self-refilling, bottomless bowl of soup. Aviation - Patricia V. Agostino, Santiago A. Plano and Diego A. Golombek of Universidad Nacional de Quilmes, Argentina, for their discovery that Viagra aids jetlag recovery in hamsters. Frankly, I think last year's winners were a far more impressive bunch.
A long ways from Mao Zedong
» Posted by Martin Weil on September 25, 2007
Can $$ buy happiness after all?
» Posted by Martin Weil on July 26, 2007 Gretchen Rubin of The Happiness Project says maybe. Check out her list of eight things to do with money that are sure to be more satisfying than buying a new big screen TV.
Death and taxes - an excellent visual aid
» Posted by Martin Weil on June 13, 2007 Looking for a last minute Father's Day gift idea?
The price
» Posted by Martin Weil on May 28, 2007
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