Archive for the 'Economy' Category
Netherlands: Drastic Reduction in Use of Antibiotics on Farms
June 18th, 2014Via: Modern Farmer: Along with every other livestock producer in the Netherlands, Oosterlaken is in the midst of a high-stakes, government-mandated experiment: Can large-scale meat production succeed without routine use of antibiotics? “Growth promoters,” the microdoses of everyday antibiotics given to livestock to fatten them, have been banned in Europe since 2006—but the Netherlands decided […]
The Highest-Paid CEOs Are The Worst Performers
June 18th, 2014Via: Forbes: Across the board, the more CEOs get paid, the worse their companies do over the next three years, according to extensive new research. This is true whether they’re CEOs at the highest end of the pay spectrum or the lowest. “The more CEOs are paid, the worse the firm does over the next […]
U.S. Health Care System Costs the Most, Ranks Lowest in International Survey
June 17th, 2014Via: CBS News: The U.S. spends more money on health care compared with other industrialized countries, but Americans still get the least bang for their buck — and many still don’t have access to care — according to a report just published by the Commonwealth Fund. The report from the private health care research foundation […]
U.S. IT Workers Training H-1B Replacements
June 15th, 2014This has been going on since before I left the IT world behind back in 2005. I’m surprised that there are still IT jobs to outsource in any number. Maybe they go and comeback and go again… The feeble U.S. flag display in the cubicles was cringe inducing. Oh dear. Via: ComputerWorld: Training the replacement […]
The Craft Distilling… Bubble?
June 15th, 2014*chortle* Via: The Atlantic: Craft distilling—a loosely defined industry consisting chiefly of distillers producing fewer than 50,000 cases a year—is now in its heady, early-Internet phase. There were about 70 small distilleries across the United States in 2003; today there are more than 600. Hardly a day passes without the announcement of a new distillery […]
Starbucks to Provide Free Online College Education to Thousands of Workers
June 15th, 2014Would you like extra foam with that? Via: New York Times: Starbucks will provide a free online college education to thousands of its workers, without requiring that they remain with the company, through an unusual arrangement with Arizona State University, the company and the university will announce on Monday. The program is open to any […]
The First Honest Cable Company
June 15th, 2014Via: YouTube Extremely Decent:
Why Online Tracking Is Getting Creepier
June 13th, 2014Via: Pro Publica: The marketers that follow you around the web are getting nosier. Currently, many companies track where users go on the Web—often through cookies—in order to display customized ads. That’s why if you look at a pair of shoes on one site, ads for those shoes may follow you around the Web. But […]
Tesla Allows Rivals to Use Its Intellectual Property to Develop Electric Vehicles
June 12th, 2014Via: Tesla Motors: Yesterday, there was a wall of Tesla patents in the lobby of our Palo Alto headquarters. That is no longer the case. They have been removed, in the spirit of the open source movement, for the advancement of electric vehicle technology. Tesla Motors was created to accelerate the advent of sustainable transport. […]
Dryers Waste $4 Billion a Year in Energy Costs
June 11th, 2014I almost thought that they were going to get away with not mentioning clotheslines in this article. So, after reading about the billions of dollars wasted and how upgraded appliances should be purchased, etc, you need to stick around until the last sentence for the dash of sanity: Best yet, he says, they can save […]
