Stream of Reading (Prepare to be Forwarded) – An Archive of What I'm Reading
I was asleep when I heard the door rattle against the frame. My eyes flashed open and I sprung upright in my under-desk sleep space. Was it all over? Had someone come to work early? I peered over my desk, afraid of what I might see. The morning sun burned through the chicken-scratch graffiti of…
At age 21, I was handed control of a million-dollar company with more than 250 employees when I was named editor-in-chief of The Daily Tar Heel, the independent student newspaper at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. The only reason I ever came to the University of North Carolina was to work for…
Hundreds of luxury apartments in the heart of Queens Plaza have just become available for rent. The World Wide Group–which has constructed a 421-unit, 21 story building at Queens Plaza North (24th Street)– has just listed the high-end apartments. Tenants will be able to move in as early as July. The apartments are packed with amenities—which…
So how big is Samsung? The answer may surprise you. Be sure to share this one! Animations: http://hellosavants.com // Soundtrack // Flexical – Stop Me (Radio Edit) Catching Flies – Quiet Nights Need a Name – Everything Is Moving, But Not The Sky Cahb – Secret Shining Bird – Distant Dreaming Kubix – Show Your…
First Look: U.S. Dollar Substitute to Go Public on Oct 20th? 04.23.2015 BY Kelly Brown, Stansberry Research IMF headquarters in Washington D.C. expected to release huge money announcement Oct 20th Learn more… The International Monetary Fund is one of the most secretive and powerful organizations in the world. They monitor the financial health of more than 185…
One day in the near future, Vice Media will take over a block in Williamsburg, Brooklyn that once held, among other establishments, Glasslands and 285 Kent, two venues that helped keep indie music alive in New York even as condos sprouted up around them. Here is what they once looked like, and what they look…
(Reuters) – President Barack Obama fought back on Thursday against the biggest domestic obstacle to the Pacific trade pact he wants to conclude before he leaves office: the trade skeptics in his own Democratic party. Trade unions, environmental groups and high-profile Democrats like Senator Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts have come out swinging against the Trans-Pacific…
Julie Zeveloff/Business InsiderNew York’s hottest, most exclusive neighborhood is Rikers Island. The most expensive neighborhood in New York City isn’t TriBeCa or the West Village. It’s Rikers Island. The city spent an average of $167,000 per inmate on its jail system in 2012, according to a new report from the city’s Independent Budget Office. That’s nearly…
Photo In Brooklyn, signs for demonstrators seeking higher wages are stored along Flatbush Avenue. Credit Lucas Jackson/Reuters Some 15 years ago, searching for a consistent way to compare wages of equivalent workers across the world, Orley Ashenfelter, an economics professor at Princeton University, came upon McDonald’s. The uniform, highly scripted production methods used throughout the…
The last few years have been an unmitigated disaster for American law schools, which is excellent news for anyone with even the vaguest interest in getting a legal education. Sure, the job market for new lawyers hasn’t exactly been peachy. Yes, the U.S. has too many law schools, given how uninterested Americans are in law school. And…