St. Helena plaintiffs seek ruling on schools

Plaintiffs in an ongoing school desegregation lawsuit against the St. Helena Parish School Board want a federal judge to allow St. Helena students to attend schools in adjacent parishes.

'Swarm' shares lessons of small-group success - From the Poughkeepsie Journal

Ants, bees, birds, locusts and termites have been developing for eons — as has mankind — and they have developed their own ways of doing things — as has mankind. Are you as bright as a termite?

Singularity Summit 2010: No place for human values in a 'posthuman' future?

At the first day of the Singularity Summit 2010 in San Francisco, author and biophysicist Gregory Stock shares his macro-evolutionary perspective on the singularity, proving the concept itself is...

Is it a study or a bedroom?

I recently wasted my time inspecting a two-bedroom property with a second bedroom so small it should have been described as a study.

Monetary Avalanche

Barron's highlights the big one on this week's cover:"Why the Fed will soon print $2 trillion," is its headline. The idea behind the headline is simple enough. The recovery is a flop. All that stimulus spending has done nothing. Unemployment is not getting better. Consumers aren't shopping. Banks aren't lending. And the money supply is actually falling.