Tipping point

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• The Tipping Point: Deck The Halls With Holiday Handouts

  
  Curbed NY — Authority: 679
  Were reviving a holiday tradition a few days early this year: the annual Curbed discussion on holiday tipping for building employees . As usual, were running the now classic Two Trees memo for one take on tipping practices. But that memo hails from the golden pre-recession days, so what to expect this year? One ...
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• Recipe for Success: Facebook, Google, Twitter

  
  Washington DC web designer — Authority: 116
  Lessons from Silicon ValleyIf you look at the Inc 500 Fastest Growing Companies, a large proportion of them are Internet- or Information Technology-based  companies.  Never in history have so many people become so extraordinarily wealthy from a single industry. The IT industry, and in particular, the Internet has ...
  4 days ago

• Stephen Jen: Sovereign Buyers Could Tip Gold into Stratosphere

  
  GreenLightAdvisor Views — Authority: 142
  Stephen Jen (Blue Gold Capital), who was formerly Morgan Stanley’s expert on sovereign wealth funds believes that China, India and Russia’s continuing purchases of gold bullion could be the catalyst for gold to rise in price into the stratosphere. He says that as their foreign exchange reserves as a percentage of ...
  6 days ago

• Alcohol in our Lives – time for a change

  
  Ozymandias Warning — Authority: 119
  While I was busy studying for my Bachelor of Education at Canterbury University one simple pleasure I enjoyed was checking out the ‘new book’ section of the library. On one particular day I remember picking up a book called ‘Tipping Point’ by Malcolm Gladwell. In this book Gladwell talks about social events he ...
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• Achtung! Prosecutor says only jail deters homeschooling

  
  BLOGDIAL — Authority: 461
  World Net Daily has a story that sounds like it could have come out of the Large Hadron Collider i.e. from the future of Britain: By Bob Unruh A prosecutor demanded jail time for two parents accused by German authorities of homeschooling their children, and he erupted in anger when the Nazi foundations of the ban ...
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• The End of the Global Warming Hoax

  
  BLOGDIAL — Authority: 461
  George Monbiot concedes defeat in The Guardian: It’s no use pretending this isn’t a major blow. The emails extracted by a hacker from the climatic research unit at the University of East Anglia could scarcely be more damaging. I am now convinced that they are genuine, and I’m dismayed and deeply shaken by ...
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• East Antarctic ice melt to cause 50-60 metres sea-level rise

  
  Bleeding edge blog — Authority: 132
  Nasa’s gravity-measuring twin satellites released the data this month about the massive East Antarctic Ice melt. Analysis reveals that the previously stable East Antarctic ice sheet may be losing critical mass.   The Ice melt is massive. Whilst scientists apply a collection of caveats to the news; Data ...
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• GLENN BECK TV THREAD! Monday, November 23, 2009

  
  Stupidica — Authority: 177
  Corruption in congress.....has it reached it tipping point? COME ON AMERICA...STAND UP, GET OUT OF THE FETAL POSITION AND MAKE YOUR VOICES HEARD. Be part of the 100 year plan! Welcome to the GLENN BECK television thread...Shake the cobwebs out of your brain...We are another day closer to the REVOLUTION that will ...
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• The common stink

  
  BLOGDIAL — Authority: 461
  There is a common element to almost all the bad things that are and have been swirling around us for decades. Here are three examples. We already know that ‘ Global Warming ‘ is junk science and a complete fraud . Now there are no doubts left for even the most ardent religious fanatic that spouts ...
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• ‘New Moon’ getting mixed reviews (The Toledo Blade)

  
  Newsalistic — Authority: 169
  “…as human beings we are capable of making sense of situations based on the thinnest slice of experience.” — Malcolm Gladwell , author of Blink and The Tipping Point . FRIDAY, November 20 NEW MOON MADNESS: The second installation in the Twilight saga opened Friday at midnight and it’s got teenage vampires, ...
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• Podcast: The New World / Thanksgiving

  
  The Tipping Point - Tippingpoint Labs — Authority: 123
  The Tipping Point Podcast Subscribe in iTunes or you can enjoy the podcasts at Blubrry.com Find us in iTunes Each podcast journeys into the world wide web, exploring various aspects of what makes people successful on the internet. We’ll cover almost anything. We’ve learned all about StuffedRobots, ...
  2 weeks ago

• It just got worse

  
  BLOGDIAL — Authority: 461
  Dumped into our inbox; it’s worse than your worse nightmare: This is bad. Here is the link to the bill on home education. http://www.publicat ions.parliament. uk/pa/cm200910/ cmbills/008/ 10008.38- 44.html#m01s You would have to apply to register your child for home education. It lasts one year. This seems to ...
  2 weeks ago

• 2 GenX thinkers have new books out

  
  junkdrawer67 — Authority: 115
  Malcolm Gladwell (b. 1963) and Steven Levitt (b. 1967 [same year as me, which of course makes me feel like a loser, because what have I done, right?]) both have new books out. Both are GenXer and both are innovative thinkers. Indicative of the GenX mindset they think quite differently than most others in their ...
  2 weeks ago

• Sarah Palin Finally Figured Out, by Malcolm Gladwell

  
  The Satirical Political Report — Authority: 539
  “IF YOU BLINK , YOU MIGHT MISS WHAT THE DOG SAW : THAT SARAH PALIN IS NOT REALLY AN OUTLIER IN THE GOP, BUT ACTUALLY JUST TYPICAL OF A PARTY THAT THREATENS TO BE THE TIPPING POINT IN SETTING US BACK NOT 10,000 HOURS … BUT 10,000 YEARS !” ...
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• Parliament put on notice: DON’T EVEN THINK ABOUT IT!

  
  BLOGDIAL — Authority: 461
  Dropped into the BLOGDIAL inbox (twice!): [...] This is urgent, and requires active participation by all HEs. Please read and forward to all HEs and HE lists that you belong to. This act is not in competition with or an attack against any HE person or HE organisation. Now is not the time for an HE civil war. We ...
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• Three fat clowns and ‘your’ democracy

  
  BLOGDIAL — Authority: 461
  Three fat clown monsters want your children to march to their beat. You know their names. See how it runs: They may just get away with it. Why? Because there are many intelligent, well meaning, thoughtful, dutiful and innocent people who believe in fairy tales and outright lies, like ‘democracy’. [...] This ...
  2 weeks ago

• US forces under strain: Mullen

  
  Pakistan News | News, Videos, Articles, Current Affairs, Politics, Entertainment, Technology | Geo TV | Dawn | The News | Ten Sports | Geo Super | India News — Authority: 456
  WASHINGTON: Top US military officer Admiral Mike Mullen said on Tuesday that US forces were under strain from fighting wars in Afghanistan and Iraq but were not at a “tipping point.” The mental fitness of American troops has come under intense scrutiny after a shooting rampage at Fort Hood by an army psychiatrist ...
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• How would Malcolm Gladwell of “The Tipping Point” explain Christmas?

  
  art predator — Authority: 130
  In the December 2009 issue of Vanity Fair, satirist Craig Brown does a Malcolm Gladwellesque analysis of Baby Jesus, Santa and Presents. For example:He is grotesquely overweight. He is childless. He lives in the chilly and undesirable North Pole. He insists on dressing in a bright-red jumpsuit with fur trimmings. He ...
  2 weeks ago

• UCLA professor offers wild solution to bad bank behavior: Scare them straight

  
  DailyFinance — Authority: 791
  Filed under: Economy , Investing A UCLA professor has come up with a wild idea to help prevent the next financial meltdown. He doesnt propose expensive regulations and mechanisms of enforcement on financial actors. Instead, he suggests that swift and decisive punishment of the biggest instigators of financial ...
  2 weeks ago

• Malcolm Gladwell: Eclectic Detective

  
  Through Your Body: — Authority: 129
  By STEVEN PINKER Have you ever wondered why there are so many kinds of mustard but only one kind of ketchup? Or what Cézanne did before painting his first significant works in his 50s? Have you hungered for the story behind the Veg-O-Matic, star of the frenetic late-night TV ads? Or wanted to know where Led Zeppelin ...
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