I forget where I heard this quote recently: “The bugs are winning” (I think it was a CDC officer in reference to malaria and insect borne pathogens. Hopefully not much longer. Die, malaria. Die.

I just realized I didn’t blog about the Oxford style economist debate hosted at the Harris theater a few nights ago. Luckily, Vince had some tickets to it, so I decided to head over with him. The title of the debate is “Will China’s Rise Lead to an Environmental Catastrophe?“. Prior to the event, and [...]

Check this out! Smart idea, I’m still surprised that the government is okay with it though. It seems like it creates an incentive for authorities to clean the streets more than anything. What might be interesting in this supremely cheap and potentially very effective form of advertising is to actually use it as for political [...]

Tonight, we have a Futurist Meetup in Chicago, so come on out if you’re free from the shackles of doing Systems work or Structured planning class with Chuck. We’re going to have a special meetup– meeting at Intelligentsia on Randolph at 6:30pm and then walking on over to Harris Theater to listen to an Oxford [...]