This episode has a gross title, but it’s a real quote from Dark Pools, the book I’m reading right now about high-frequency trading. Also this episode: stabbing people with letter openers, psychotic robots that follow you into the bathroom, killer super weeds, and cinder blocks to the face! Enjoy.
DS #82: Trading Through The Puke
Top 3 Links of the Week
- Herbicide-resistant “super weeds” increasingly plaguing farmers
- Dying veteran writes to George W Bush and Dick Cheney
- United by loss, Israeli and Palestinian dads call for a joint nonviolent intifada against occupation
- Take Action: Tell Obama not to appoint fracking advocate Dr. Ernest Moniz to Dept. of Energy
- Also: A Place at the Table
Current Events
- 14 adults “cured” of HIV
- New LBJ tapes: Nixon sabotaged Paris Peace Talks to win election
- Dying Veteran Tomas Young on DemocracyNow
- BBC documentary podcast: After Saddam
- Democracy Now: Iraq is a failed state existing in “utter devastation”
- Torture at Guantanamo
- The Geography of defense cuts (infographic)
- After three years, BP is finally headed to court
- Companies, environmentalists agree on new fracking rules
- Windfarm sickness spreads by word of mouth, Australian study finds
- India covering canals with solar panels
- Two boys killed in Afghanistan airstrike
- Wisconsin legislator admits to never having transvaginal ultrasound
- New Pope chooses “Francis” after the saint of the poor
- Pope Francis’ Junta Past
- CPAC’s “Trump the Race Card” forum derailed by an actual segregationist
Economics
- Iceland President Olafur Ragnar Grimsson: Let banks go bankrupt
- Ha-Joon Chang on laziness and poverty
- Will robots create economic utopia?
- EU’s financial tax is likely to spur trading exodus
- American University law student: SEC will regulate HFT
- Australia finds HFT fears “overstated” but considers minimum hold time
- Demos Report: Cracks in the pipeline part two: HFT
- European officials cap banker bonuses at one year’s salary
- Vandana Shiva on Democracy Now
- Take action against super weeds: JustLabelIt.org
Education
- Value-added teacher evaluation models fail kids and communities
- 100 education experts write to the Independent to protest misguided UK education reform
- Black Agenda Report: Why isn’t closing 129 Chicago public schools news?
- Water into wine? Jeb Bush, Cheapistas, and education reform
- Scott Walker proposes expanding voucher school program in Wisconsin
Killer Robots, Etc
- General Stanley McChrystal on drones
- Pentagon robot hurls concrete blocks
- MarionetteBot fuses Kinect and mannequins
- Tongue computers are just the beginning
- Print your own AR-15
- Dogs understand human perspective: Study
- First came the Russian meteor, now the meteorite deals
- JJ Fad: Supersonic
Hip-Hop
Snoop Lion on Tavis Smiley (Sorry, the PBS embed isn’t working.)
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