Posts by Kim Krawiec

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…

So, you’ve decided that egg and sperm selling are not for you, and the California IOUs don’t look like such a great investment now that Bank of America, Wells Fargo…

Wednesday, July 9, 1930: Dow 219.08 +0.75 (0.3%) Washington Irving's book “The Great Mississippi Bubble” republished by Random House. "The story was written about a hundred years ago and the…

What a lovely welcome, Dan!  Since I don’t have Tim’s wit, I’ll just thank Dan for inviting me to join the Lounge and thank all of the other Loungers and…

From Tuesday’s USA today: Sperm, egg donors increase during recession By Judy Keen, USA TODAY CHICAGO — Sperm banks and donor agencies say the recession is prompting a surge in…

Since, here at the Faculty Lounge, we never bypass an opportunity to publicly discuss sperm (see, e.g. Live Sperm, Dead Donor and More Live Sperm, Dead Donor) I bring you…