Business Pundit

If you’re a chef, musician, cleaner, model, or just anyone, you should be afraid. Very afraid. You’re about to lose your job – and when robots rule the employment roost, don’t be surprised if you end up losing your life too… Note: the following… Read more

Image: El Economista Oliver Williamson and Elinor Ostrom both won this year’s Nobel Peace Prizes in Economic Science. The New York Times has more on the research that won the professors their honors: Mr. Williamson’s work focuses on the… Read more

Wolfram Alpha, a new search engine based on Wolfram Research’s Mathematica formula, is due for release this month. If you watch the demo above, you’ll see that Wolfram Alpha is able to process questions in natural language–the way humans ask… Read more

There’s nothing quite like a good plague scare to get people pontificating. Here’s a roundup of swine flu opinion from the past few days. From a scientific standpoint, it’s apparently not a question of if, but when a flu pandemic will hit…. Read more

Pharmaceutical companies Merck and Schering Plough are merging to create another pharmaceutical giant (a la Wyeth and Pfizer in late January). MarketWatch has the details: Pharmaceutical giant Merck & Co., Inc on Monday said it will buy… Read more

With cloned steaks hitting supermarket shelves, cloning is gaining momentum as a major (ahem) cash cow. Scientists have been effectively cloning animals since the early 1960s, when a Chinese embryologist cloned an Asian carp. It’s just a matter of… Read more

(Image: Amazon.com) The New York Times today released a piece about gadgets for kids. The key question is this: At what age should children get their first cellphone, laptop or virtual persona? The article goes on to cite how A)… Read more

Microsoft and Google are bracing for battle over the lucrative electronic health records business. A recent partnership with Kaiser Permanente puts Microsoft in the lead – for now. In a pilot program Kaiser will offer Microsoft’s Health… Read more

The Economist: “Something seems wrong with the laws of physics. Spacecraft are not behaving in the way that they should In 1990 mission controllers at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) in Pasadena, California, which operates America’s unmanned… Read more

Louisville is worried about ethanol pollution. Ethanol, a fuel that's backed by state and federal governments and viewed as a boon to corn farmers in the Midwest and South, may make it harder to breathe in Louisville this summer. While… Read more

An interesting new theory states that modern humans won the selection battle against neanderthals because we traded. One theory is that Homo sapiens had more sophisticated tools, which gave him an advantage in hunting or warfare. Another is that… Read more

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I have been thinking about this post from The Big Picture all day. I often write that I am not worried about the U.S. losing manufacturing or other low skill jobs because long-term there will be a shift to higher paying jobs. Well, part of that… Read more

This research is surprising and contradicts some of the EQ research that was popularized in the 90s. Intelligence in the workplace is not that different from intelligence at school, according to the results of a meta-analysis of over one hundred… Read more