News and views from The Farm in Summertown, Tennessee
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News and views from The Farm in Summertown, Tennessee
By The Economist
A simple idea underpins science: “trust, but verify”. Results should always be subject to challenge from experiment. That simple but powerful idea has generated a vast body of …
Here is a must-see video: 137 pages of foreclosure notices in the Detroit Free Press BEFORE the bailout and resulting layoffs from the big three auto makers:
In 1989, while I was serving as Assista…
By Aaron Dykes and Melissa Melton
We’re no molecular biologists over here, but have you ever seen the sci-fi flick Gattaca?
In that 1997 film, society is structured around eugenics as people are…
The U.S. Census Bureau has awarded IBM (NYSE: IBM) Global Business Services a contract to provide data tabulation and dissemination services in support of the 2010 Census and other key Census Bureau…
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By Chuck Gibson
We closed out 2013 with a bifurcated market. US stocks were the only place to be while the balance of the choices vying for your investment doll…
A discourse by Markandeya in the Mahabharata identifies some of the attributes of Kali Yuga:
In relation to rulers
Rulers will become unreasonable: they will levy taxes unfairly.
Rulers will …