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FILTER RESULTS ►Quantifying Conflict
New Scientist created the above graphic, which tracks the number of violent events per day in Syria since the beginning of 2011 as calculated by the Global Data on Events, Location and Tone dataset: As Western leaders ponder intervention, the resulting view suggests that the violence has subsided in recent months, from a peak in the […]
See the Size of All Your Folders in OS X's Finder
By default, the Finder's list view only shows you the size of individual files—not of folders. This small, somewhat hidden setting will calculate the size of entire folders so you can see where all your data is. Read more...
Add boron for better batteries
Frustration led to revelation when Rice University scientists determined how graphene might be made useful for high-capacity batteries. Calculations by the Rice lab of theoretical physicist Boris Yakobson found a graphene/boron anode should be able to hold a lot of lithium and perform at a proper voltage for use in lithium-ion batteries. Show More Summary
How To Make Math Stick
"By zapping the brain during mathematical lessons, scientists have improved students’ numerical skills by a third. Not only did the participants become quicker when calculating figures in their head, they also learned their arithmetic up to five times faster." --- See more posts by Alex Balk 0 comments
MIT constructs synthetic analog computers inside living cells
Inspired by early computer designs, researchers at MIT have created synthetic analog computers that use genetic machinery -- in other words, living cell calculators. In addition to arithmetic, these computers can also perform more complex function like taking logarithms and square roots. Show More Summary
Hauser's Law At Work In Spain
By Ironman at Political Calculations: In 2012, after Spain's government had run up an extraordinary budget deficit in the previous year, the newly elected government of Spain's new prime minister, Mariano Rajoy, committed to both increase the government's revenue and to decrease its spending to put Spain on a more sound financial footing. Show More Summary
End times for doomsday-linked radio network?
By Jessica Ravitz, CNN (CNN) - Dealing with a struggling radio business – this wasn’t the way it was supposed to be. By all his calculations, Harold Camping expected to be nearly two years into his Rapture revelry, hanging in heaven with God and the select others who’d been saved. But when his predicted and […]
Apple: The Dangers Of Using Bad Data To Calculate Only One Metric
By Analytical Chemist: A fellow Seeking Alpha contributor wrote an article suggesting that Apple's (AAPL) return on invested capital is too high to continue, and lower future ROIC's suggest a much lower stock price for Apple in the future. Show More Summary
Clarity And The S&P 500
By Ironman at Political Calculations: And then, suddenly, the future for the S&P 500 (SPY) snapped into clear focus: (click to enlarge) It would appear that investors have shifted their forward-looking focus to 2014-Q1 in setting the pace of change for U.S. Show More Summary
If You Believe The Rumors, Kim And Kanye Will Be Broken Up By Baby-O-Clock
How pregnant is Kim Kardashian these days? Five months? Five and a half? Well by my calculations, that means she has a little less than three months left of dating Kanye West, because sources are suggesting the two of them will be broken up by the time their wee Kimye baby is born in early July. Show More Summary
Going Fractal With The S&P 500: An After-Action Report
By Ironman at Political Calculations: When should you sell your stocks? We asked that specific question several weeks ago, before we exploited the fractal nature of stock prices in developing an objective statistics-based method for determining when to tell if an upward microtrend for stocks was about to break. Show More Summary
Silver Wheaton Changes How Dividends Are Calculated
In an effort to increase the stability of its quarterly dividend, silver streamer Silver Wheaton is changing the way it calculates its payout. Instead of basing the dividend on the cash generated by operating activities in the previous quarter, it will now base it on the cash generated by operating activities in the prior four quarters. Show More Summary
Nuclear Cost Calculations From Ivan Penn and Tampa Bay Times Just an Exercise in Fuzzy Math
Ivan Penn of the TBT. Over the weekend, the Tampa Bay Times published an analysis by Ivan Penn claiming that ratepayers in Florida would be better served if Duke Energy built a natural gas plant in place of a proposed nuclear energyShow More Summary
Glenn Beck's Company: $80M A Year
Fortune Magazine calculates that Glenn Beck's media company is grossing $80M a year. TheBlaze is generating between $35 million and $45 million in revenue per year, according to information obtained by Fortune. Beck's broader business empire, which also include his eponymous radio program and speaking tours, brings in more than $80 million annually. Show More Summary
Revising The GDP Again, Or Keeping Up Economic Appearances
By Rachel Mills: As happens every so often, government bean counters at the Bureau of Economic Analysis (BEA) have decided that the way we've been calculating GDP in the past is wrong, all wrong and we must "fix" it. We must incorporate...Show More Summary
A Big Week For The S&P 500
By Ironman at Political Calculations: Going into this week, we're not much closer to knowing for sure if the stock market's climb from its last notable trough on 18 April 2013 is the result of noise, a fundamental shift in investor focus,...Show More Summary
Israel's Act of War Against Syria—Madness or Cold Calculation?, by F. William Engdahl
At a time when the US and Gulf proxies are losing ground to the Syrian Arab Army (SAA) nationwide, this pundit ranges in on the likely motive for Israel's recent air raids against Syria, carried out with Washington's approbation. OnShow More Summary
Market Running On Fumes, Prepare Your Exit Strategy
By Alberto Savrieno: The stock market is running on fumes. More than a hunch, this is a calculated assessment based on concrete numbers in money supply growth. When "bull markets" are being fueled by quantitative easing, and we all know...Show More Summary
The Klout score of 1903: A statistical study of eminent men
How do you measure influence? What is notability? It might seem that before the social ranking site Klout came along to assign people numbers by cold, numerical, social media calculation, the only way to rank people's importance was by hunch and opinion. Show More Summary
The Right Way To Calculate Dog's Age
Image: Annette
Shaff/Shutterstock The old way of multiplying a dog's age in human years by 7 is just not
cutting it anymore. To get at your dog's true age, follow this formula: For first two years: 9 years per human year for the first...Show More Summary
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