Monthly Archives: August 2013

Ireland’s Central Statistics Office yesterday released figures showing an extraordinary rate of emigration — driven by the financial crisis.  Almost 400,000 people have left Ireland since 2008.  In the 12-month period from April 2012 to April 2013, one person was … Continue reading →

A paper entitled “Cleaning House: The Impact of Information Technology Monitoring on Employee Theft and Productivity” — by three academics — studied how staff at 392 restaurants in 39 states stole from their employers.  Other studies estimated that employees stole … Continue reading →

From an op-ed in today’s New York Times:  Our capacity to tune out noises — a relatively recent adaptation — may itself pose a danger, since it allows us to neglect the physical damage that noise invariably wreaks. A Hyena … Continue reading →

A former physician in India was troubled that sorcerers, gurus, babas, astrologers, godmen and other mystical entrepreneurs — usually with a religious bent — were cheating and manipulating people who went to them with problems.  He was an advocate for … Continue reading →

Two former Census Bureau officials have completed a study that shows that, despite some improvement in median household income in the last two years, we’re still not close to the purchasing power we had before the 2008 financial crisis.  Median … Continue reading →

The wire services are reporting that British police are examining new information relating to the deaths of Princess Diana and Dodi Fayed.  Officers are assessing the “relevance and credibility” of the information.  Scotland Yard stressed that it was not reopening … Continue reading →

The New York Times today has an insightful article entitled “Not All Industrial Food Is Evil.”  One of many fascinating facts from it:  “if you’re wondering what percentage of the price of the canned tomato you buy goes to the … Continue reading →

Reuters reports today that China in November will start phasing out its practice of using the organs of executed prisoners for transplant operations.  At the end of 2012, about 64 percent of transplanted organs in China came from executed prisoners.  … Continue reading →