Here’s what Larry Ellison, CEO of the US software giant Oracle thought about ‘The Cloud’ in 2009 [* see note below] Nowadays, if you happen to be involved in any way with computing technology, there’s a good chance that you might be making use of ‘The Cloud’. Perhaps at this very moment. But what exactly […]
Side Effects of Coffee: Carbon Monoxide
A further finding about side effects of coffee (chapter the three-thousandth-after-next): “Carbon Monoxide From Domestic Coffee Roasting: A Case Report,” Joel B. Raffel and Joanne Thompson, Annals of Internal Medicine, vol. 159, no. 11, December 3, 2013. The authors are at Imperial College London. BONUS: Coffee and convenience store workers and air pollution and lots of […]
The effect of foreign sumo wrestlers on the body-mass/human-capital relationship in Japan
This economics study suggests that allowing foreigners to work as sumo wrestlers has been detrimental to the quality of native wrestlers’ wrestling: “Is body mass human capital in sumo? Outcome of globalization and formation of human capital in Japan,” Eiji Yamamura, Journal of the Japanese and International Economies, epub November 22, 2013. The author, at […]
Complex Medical Insights: “Indoor Air Pollution, Nighttime Heart Rate Variability and Coffee Consumption among Convenient Store Workers”
Medical researchers, seeking insight, sometimes try to make simple sense of complex, difficult conglomerations of things that may or may not have effects on each other and on many other things. Sometimes coffee is involved, as is the case here: “Indoor Air Pollution, Nighttime Heart Rate Variability and Coffee Consumption among Convenient Store Workers,” Kai-Jen […]