Bitcoin has a lot of positives and negatives
By Jim Rickards, The Daily Reckoning From Business Insider At various times in history, feathers have been money, shells have been money, dollars and euros are money. Gold and silver are certainly money. Bitcoin and other crypto-currencies can also be money….
Employees at the world’s biggest hedge fund spend a couple hours every week studying each other’s meetings
By Richard Feloni From Business Insider Every week, employees at the world’s largest hedge fund spend at least an hour with “management principles training” lessons (MPTs), where they analyze recordings of meetings and answer questions about what they observed. Bridgewater Associates…
Civil society advocates for better environmental standards in the Eastern Caribbean
From Caribbean News Now CASTRIES, St Lucia — Saint Lucia and Dominica are the only two Eastern Caribbean countries that have not yet signed on to the Latin America and Caribbean (LAC) Declaration on Principle 10. This declaration, which has…
Cartoon of the week
By Tony Zuvela, Cartoonist “It’s my own little World which I can escape to everyday and create a fun, weird, berserk Cartoon to whatever subject I like. I enjoy doing all the work myself, and all the aspects of Cartooning,…
New York’s highest court is concerned about the use of prisoner phone call recordings
By Joe Sexton, ProPublica From Business Insider Two years ago, a New York City man named Marcellus Johnson was convicted of robbery — in part as a result of incriminating telephone conversations that had been recorded while he was awaiting trial…
Why your body makes you feel horrible when you’re sick
By Olivia Carter, The Conversation From Business Insider It is hard to find the words to describe how I feel at the moment because my brain is only working at about 10% capacity. At least I made it to work…
Dropbox didn’t tell anyone about a giant hack for four years
By Chris Smith From BGR We get it, companies get hacked all the time. And they’re not too eager to share details about data breaches, but they ultimately have to release details about it so that affected users can protect…
HBO premiere’s new Hollywood blockbusters this September
MIAMI, Fla. – August 29, 2016 – HBO is home to the biggest blockbuster films premiering exclusively every Saturday night at 22hrs*. Through agreements with four of the largest film studios worldwide – Warner Bros., Disney, Sony Pictures and Universal…
World’s largest tomato fight
Streets of Spanish village splattered with tomatoes after the world’s largest food BY BRITTANY HERBERT From Mashable The streets of Bunol are splattered with red after the world’s largest food fight. The annual Tomatina fiesta took place on Wednesday in…
Alaska and Delta airlines approved to commence service to Havana
From Caribbean News Now WASHINGTON, USA — On Wednesday, Alaska Airlines and Delta Air Lines were both approved by the US Department of Transportation (DOT) to operate scheduled services to Havana, Cuba. In Delta’s case this will represent a resumption…
