Gordon's Notes

As I scrape rubbery solids from the nozzle of my Colgate toothpaste I remember that the meme of daily toothpaste use was one of the great ac...

Unsurprisingly, given the current state of the GOP presidential primary, people who'd prefer to vote GOP are advocating third party equi...

Uplifting the naked ape is having mixed results ... Your money for your life - enslaving the cognitively disabled (China) Out of more tha...

Earlier today I reviewed a decade of Gordon's Notes posts about how information technology has supercharged old frauds . It's an od...

For the past fifteen years I've been fascinated by how the information technologies of the late 20th century supercharged old frauds. I ...

The kidney trade is growing ... The village of the kidneys - Nepali Times : A village near Kathmandu is the "Kidney Bank". Desp...

It occurred to me that a custom Google news section would help me track the worldwide retail organ business. The results were more impress...

Florida's years of GOP misrule have produced libertarian innovations in the care of the aged ... Investigation Finds Dozens Of Questiona...

The weak are inescapable. Live long enough? Probably weak. Child? Weak. Wrong genes? Not so strong. Blacksmith post-horses? Tribe out of po...

Everything you need to know about mine safety (emphases mine) ... How to connect mining disasters and climate change - How the World Works -...

The Sepoy mutiny (IOT) is traditionally said to have begun with a rumor that new rifle cartridges, which soldiers had to bite to use, were...

Any Rand is the heroine of the marketarians ... Two biographies of Ayn Rand. - By Johann Hari - Slate Magazine ... In her 70s Rand found her...

Bush laid waste to rational government, leaving a largely broken and corrupted mess. Bureaucracies are hard to kill however. Bush coul...

Paul Krugman picks two examples of the corruption of conservative political institutions … Opinions for sale - Paul Krugman Blog - NYT...

We don't know the safe levels for dogs. Apparently the fluoride comes from a high bone meal content in pet food ... Fluoride in dog food...

I really need to try to at least skim Ayn Rand's Atlas Shrugged or the Fountainhead. I've only read bits of the originals; the stup...

At last count my list of contributing factors to the crash of '09 included ... Complexity collapse : we don't understand our e...

[My original post is below, but the subsequent "update" is more interesting ...] These guys might just qualify as evil . They had ...

I'm on some CDC lists, so I got this email today: CDC - Social Media Tools for Consumers and Partners - Peanut Product Recall relat...

Disregarding dividends and taxes, of which the latter is the bigger, we're back to 1998 now: Figure: S&P over our investing lifespan...