Category Archives for Thinking
Shlok Vaidya’s thinking.
On Exploding Higher Education
I’ve argued for a while that India’s Institutes of Technology and Management should be exploded so as to distribute the benefits to more and more people. Pete Thiel’s thinking along the same lines: He thinks it’s fundamentally wrong for a … Continue reading
Incompetance or Corruption?
Jonathan Weil on Citigroup: The gist of the regulator’s findings: Citigroup’s internal controls were a mess. So were its valuation methods for subprime mortgage bonds, which had spawned record losses at the bank. Among other things, “weaknesses were noted with … Continue reading
No Help For Homeowners
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Closer to a Printable Engine
…researchers at Michigan State University have built a prototype gasoline engine that requires no transmission, crankshaft, pistons, valves, fuel compression, cooling systems or fluids. Their so-called Wave Disk Generator could greatly improve the efficiency of gas-electric hybrid automobiles and potentially … Continue reading
Bankrupt Air Force
From Sterling’s Distraction. “The Air Force flew in around noon,” Fontenot informed them, leaning on the padded bumper of his hummer and lowering his binoculars. “Got their glue bombs down, and some crowd-foamers. Plus the sawhorses and the tanglewire.” “So … Continue reading