Posts by Kim Krawiec

Image source: NASAToday marks the 40thAnniversary of the Apollo 11 mission lunar landing on July 20, 1969, when Apollo 11 commander Neil Armstrong took “one small step.”  With help from…

And when Jim Cramer talks, someone has to give Jon Stewart a Valium.   The Daily Show With Jon StewartMon - Thurs 11p / 10cLenny Dykstra's Financial Careerwww.thedailyshow.comDaily Show Full EpisodesPolitical…

Click play above to watch interview with SecondMarket's Jeremy Smith on the secondary market in California IOUs. (If video is slow to load, the outlink is here). A while back, ...

Will law school get shorter, longer, or disappear altogether? Some of these on-going discussions about the future of law schools have transpired over the course of the last few weeks,…

Via Freakonomics, and following up on Mark's credit card post from yesterday: An unidentified computer glitch has led Visa to overcharge several of its cardholders for routine purchases at drug…

From The Telegraph: China has outlawed the use of electric shock therapy to treat internet addiction, after a scandal at a hospital in the Northern province of Shandong.   Internet…

Via Starpulse Entertainment News.  I kept waiting for this story to make its way into a mainstream media source so that I could blog about it.  It never did.  But…

Via Calculated Risk, who gets credit for the excellent headline.  FOX Business reports: Yet I could not resist asking Wells Fargo Bank NA why it filed a civil complaint against…

How’s the traffic on your faculty listserve these days?  Quiet? Active?  The answer, along with other information about inter-faculty email traffic, may hold the key to predicting both your school’s…

It seems everyone is talking about Michael Lewis’s new Vanity Fair article, The Man Who Crashed the World.  From the lead-in: Almost a year after A.I.G.’s collapse, despite a tidal wave…