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In Praise of Footnotes (and Skepticism)
“The World Health Organization (WHO) recently warned that 1 billion people worldwide could die of tobacco-related causes this century unless ‘urgent action’ is taken.” (Reported…
June 22, 2009
Idling Away Our Future
Section 4-08, Subsection P of the New York City traffic code prohibits engine idling for more than three minutes. Engine idling, obviously, significantly pollutes our…
June 15, 2009
Four Defenses
Atlantic magazine’s June 2009 cover story, “What Makes Us Happy?”, was about a compelling longitudinal study of 268 male Harvard students. Starting in the late…
June 9, 2009
“There’s No Such Thing as ‘Business’ Ethics”
“There’s No Such Thing As ‘Business’ Ethics: There is only one rule for making decisions” is a short book by John Maxwell. Its message is,…
June 8, 2009
$10.7 Million
$10.7 million is what Mayor Gavin Newsom calculates the city of San Francisco spends annually to clean up discarded cigarette butts from “gutters, drainpipes and…
May 27, 2009
Recency Bias
“Recency bias” is a tendency to give greater importance to more-recent events than to less-recent events. Recency bias is just another way of saying people…
May 11, 2009
You can’t lose what you never had
A Team Member spoke regretfully to me the other day: She was negotiating to sell a house, going back and forth with a potential buyer,…
May 7, 2009
Trayless Dining
In one fell swoop, we are going to – conserve water – reduce food waste – save energy – save money, AND – combat obesity…
May 4, 2009
PopCap: Global Shame
(A Populist Capitalist Blog) The Marlboro Man is “pushing hard to boost global sales before U.S.-style tobacco restrictions spread… ramping up sales in overseas markets…
May 1, 2009
PopCap: Prosperity: The Solution to Global Warming?
(A populist capitalist blog) Intuitively, many people feel that for the environment, simpler is better. And from there it is a relatively short leap to…
April 24, 2009
Lies, Damn Lies, and Statistics: Part 2
To make good decisions it helps to start with complete, solid data. In other words, reality. However, the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but…
April 23, 2009