Starbucks Etiquette: The Mobile Workplace Violators | Fox Business:
The modern method of telecommuting has its ups and downs when moving the office to Starbucks.
Uber Meets Its Match in France http://www.wsj.com/articles/uber-meets-its-match-in-france-1442592333It seeing how the company has been able to introduce disruptive innovation, into existing and monopolistic type markets. They jump start into the market so that they have a large presence of drivers and customers before the regulators can catch up with them. Of course the services are much better than the existing taxis. Very interesting how disruptive innovation good the interview so quickly into large markets. Doubly interesting…
Newly Discovered Garbage Patch in the South Pacific Is 1.5 Times the Size of Texas, Study Says | The Weather Channel: Let’s TRASH it ! Speaking of trash. We keep making it. We box it, we stack it. We keep spreading it liberally around the world. We keep taking the planet for granted. !!! … Check out the Great Pacific Garbage Patch at Wikipedia. Note the visualization of ocean flows using ocean buoys (off to…
Chef Massimo Bottura on Why the Future of Food is in Our Trash http://www.wsj.com/articles/chef-massimo-bottura-on-why-the-future-of-food-is-in-our-trash-1449506020 We throw away about $700 worth of food each year in the USA. That’s per person, last I saw, which was probably about 10 years ago. Think of the products taken from the shelf because they are past the due date. Capturing most of this food can go a long way toward feeding a hungry planet.
The next crisis: Sponging boomers | The Economist: The math is ugly. This is a great article that summarized some really big key issues that arise from the generational move of the Boomers into retirement. BoomAge could be the syndrome. Those age 65 or older are expected to consume about $333B more in benefits/services than they paid in taxes. No worries, let’s let our kids and grandkids take care of that bill. And the bad…
Here is an article in ARS Technica about an article in Nature Geoscience (2019) that talks about microplastics in the French The Pyrenees Mountains, a pristine place, except for, well, plastic! The researchers made extremely controlled efforts to assure that they were not contaminating the samples gathered. But the plastics are coming in on the wind, and coming down (mainly, it seems) in perpetration. If microplastics are everywhere, then our impacts on the planet are…
IP Creates Jobs for America | BIOtechNow: “In May, the Global Intellectual Property Center (GIPC) was proud to unveil the results of our state intellectual property (IP) jobs research, which has been a year in the making. The study, IP Creates Jobs for America, provides real, tangible evidence that the economic benefits of IP are broad and far-reaching.” Go here for the original GIPC report and the interactive US Map. Key points related to IP…
