Image: Alan Mak/Wikimedia Commons Move over, Shanghai. China’s economic future lies in its center–the 20 biggest cities in inland China, to be exact. The Economist, in a new report, has dubbed this trend CHAMPS (named after some of the leading cities in its inland Top 20 list: Chongqing, Hefei, Anshan, Maanshan, Pingdingshan and Shenyang). These […]
What crime combines billions in annual earnings, sneaky accounting, a lack of media coverage, and the good Lord himself? Religious fraud. Conning the faithful, it turns out, is a lucrative art. Christian leaders alone stole more than $27 billion in 2009, according to one estimate. Such leaders steal more money than is spent annually on […]
“Elephant bumping.” That’s how Warren Buffett refers to meeting other tycoons in Alice Schroeder’s biography of him. Who has enough wealth and global economic influence to be part of the world’s elephant herd? The Saudi prince who is News Corp.’s biggest shareholder, the Ethiopian Arab who has half his fortune in Swedish investments. Such global […]
Image: JanneM/Flickr Mind hacks. Ever since Tom Stafford and Matt Webb introduced us to the hidden logic of our upstairs system in their 2004 neuroscience tome, these simple tricks have taken the blogosphere by storm. Nowadays, there’s a hack for everything, from your sex life to your kitchen stove. We compiled the Web’s 50 best […]
Which business school should you attend? Figuring out where to get your MBA is crucial to your career, your connections, and your future. Can you take two years off from work, or do you need your MBA to be part-time? On-campus or online? Where can you get in, given your qualifications? Finally, and perhaps most […]
Every year, today’s greatest thinkers gather at various TED (Technology Entertainment and Design) conferences around the world. Their talks, which you can find on TED’s website, are often insightful, educational, and fascinating. As a TED junkie, I decided to compile 20 of the best business talks in the conference’s history. Each talk offers insights either […]
What’s the easiest way to get into an elite university? Have rich parents, of course. Or find another way, like financial aid, to finangle your way into a prep school. Prep schools, especially those on the East Coast, are assembly lines for minting rich and famous people. Ironically enough, for boarding students, many of these […]
We’re the fattest country on the planet. You’d think we’d get tired of the topic of eating food. Instead, we’ve turned out attention to watching others eat ridiculous amounts of food. During recent years, eating contests have emerged as one of the hottest new competitive sports to hit the TV circuit. Though NBA players would […]
Your browser does not support iframes. California State University Bakersfield (CSUB) is a comprehensive regional university which is part of the California State University System comprised of 23 campuses. Bakersfield is located in Central California. It offers a safe environment and relatively low cost of living considering that it is quite close to the advantages […]
Making money off the world’s oldest profession might just be the world’s oldest business. With profits ranging from 40% to nearly 100%, pimping’s money lures in all kinds of characters. Women, in fact, have become just as notorious as men in the business–just ask Heidi Fleiss. Whether they’ve run with criminals, serviced politicians, or owned […]
Reputation is everything. Especially in the higher echelons of business, where the reputation of a CEO can determine a company’s fate. Some CEOs benefit their companies by cultivating positive reputations. They may end up as popular heroes, like Patagonia’s Yvon Chouinard, or Business Hall of Famers (and future governors?) like eBay’s Meg Whitman. Some CEOs, […]
In the context of computing, plain text refers to a sequence of characters which may be read as regular text. This may also contain some control characters. All characters used are based on the ASCII, or the American standard code for information interchange. Plain text may not require processing, but may also include formatting specifications […]
Cascading Style Sheets, or CSS, is a W3C standard that provides a way to declare the style of html documents. This includes layout, design and typography. Styles can be declared three ways. One is through an external CSS file linked to an html page. Another is inline style declaration through the style tag. The third […]
HTML stands for HyperText Markup Language. HTML is the one of the standard markup languages for creating web pages. HTML can be used to create structured documents using semantic directives. These documents include headings, lists, quotes, tables, and much more. There are three types of markup elements used in HTML. Structural describes the purpose and […]
The Gulf of Mexico oil spill is one of the worst company-created environmental disasters in history. Water and wetlands are sullied. People are dead. We’re still waiting on wildlife casualties and strange illnesses. Amazingly, these themes are familiar. As long as mines and factories have existed, they’ve cut corners to save money, sprung leaks, and […]
