Preferential attachment - how math can make your column popular

The first fax machine had no value. It couldn't send a fax to anyone. It was, from a value perspective, useless. The second fax machine added value to the first because it now had something which could receive faxes. The third added value to the first two and received value...

Criminal Capitalism Business As Usual

"Yesterday the Chairman of RIM, makers of the Blackberry stepped down as the company was caught up in the scandal of back dating shares. This was prior to any actions taken by the SEC, against RIM, which is looking into the back dating scandal. No indication was given if...

Chicago 10th-graders trace ancestry through DNA

"Sixteen-year-old Diamond Howard is learning about world history, anthropology, sociology and biology using a one-of-a-kind tool: her own DNA."

More Criminal Capitalists

"File this under business as usual...... $78 million payday, $75,000 fine Slap on the wrist in fund scandal bodes ill for investors And file this under there's a sucker born every minute......He's 25, a CEO, and on the runPolice accuse Oakville man of $8M fraud"

Criminal Capitalism Redux

"I guess they couldn't wait to get their bonuses. They thought it was just business as usual. A total of six employees of the Siemens telecommunications unit Com have been arrested in connection with diverting the money to foreign bank accounts believed set up in...

Criminal Capitalism The Story of 2006

"In business the stories of 2006 that dominated the news were about the continuing expose of criminal capitalism, as a way of doing business."

White Collar Crime Reporter 1

"In Canada it is fashionable for Acccounting Companies like Ernest and Young, and KPMG to publish annual reports on corporate fraud, and the losses incurred through white collar crime. Of course they focus on the employee theft and fraud, not real corporate fraud or true...

Major African archaeological find reported (Breaking News)

Oslo, Norway, November 30 (UPI): Breaking News - A Norwegian archaeologist has found what might be the African site of mankind's oldest ritual - a discovery said to change our knowledge of human history.University of Oslo Associate Professor Sheila Coulson* and colleagues say...