Johns Hopkins faculty outline mini-courses on various topics . Includes "How These Things Work: Business Management Writ Large". I'd skip Berle and Means, but the Mokyr, Hayek, and Chandler volumes are good for autodidacts or anybody else. Link via Metafilter . ... Read th ... Read more

. . . is "interval" or high-intensity training . It might even help reduce heart disease and Type II diabetes . ... Read the full post ... Read more

From the U.K. Telegraph : "Featuring quotes and interesting facts, we list the world's 20 oldest continually-inhabited cities ." ... Read the full post ... Read more

Most of these were great . ... Read the full post ... Read more

Forbes analysis using four factors: violent crime, workplace fatality rate, traffic death rate, and natural disaster risk. Minneapolis-St. Paul wins and Miami-Fort Lauderdale loses. Surprising to me was the city that ranked worst on the workplace fatality rate: Indianapolis. ... Read th ... Read more

A small bit of genius . ... Read the full post ... Read more

The crackdown on BitTorrent has just moved unauthorized copying to a venue much harder to police . ... Read the full post ... Read more

Most of the stars, except maybe Christian, have done all right . ... Read the full post ... Read more

Interesting account of how a firm called Backblaze constructs huge amounts of cloud storage inexpensively . They need to because they offer unlimited, automatic backup over the Internet for just $5/month (per computer and "except your operating system, applications, temporary files, or th ... Read more