Day June 14, 2007

Seeking peace: puzzle vs. mystery

In this month’s Smithsonian Magazine, former Vice-Chairman of the National Intelligence Council Gregory F. Treverton writes about an interesting distinction between approaching a situation as a puzzle or a mystery. A puzzle is something that requires additional information to solve,…

Why capitalism can’t solve global warming

More from “Confronting the climate change crisis” There are three major barriers against capitalism achieving the goal of reducing co2 emissions. Changing from fossil fuels to other energy sources will require massive spending. Such spending will not increase profits and…

Facebook vs. MySpace. No contest

Facebook. It’s everything MySpace wants to be but isn’t. Chris Pirillo lists good reasons why. It’s easy to use, powerful, with an open platform. One nice feature for new users, it’ll check your online email accounts for Facebook users, then…