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...long as exchanges are making markets more opaque and multi-tiered than ever. "If small investors and if long-term investors - and by long-term investors, I mean longer than a few seconds - if long-term investors don't have confidence that they're on [a level] playing field with giant supercomputers ... How are they going to feel about owning equities? That's the real scare...
...high-pressure field is created in front of the body, and a low-pressure field is created at the back of the body," explains Katija, and the low-pressure acts like a vacuum, sucking in the nearby water when the jellyfish begins to move. "What we have found is a mechanism that would allow for animals to mix water efficiently when they swim...
...solar maculopathy” and was determined to not make eye contact with my subject—and usually, archnemesis—the sun. A hotline had been established in Hong Kong for the symptoms of eye damage—blurred vision, holes in visual field, afterimages, and reddened perception. Most people didn’t own the proper solar filters for dealing with the situation. If you look straight at the sun during a partial eclipse—like the 75 percent one that occurred in Hong Kong on July 22—the sun’s rays...
...starting now, as some of the huge, dominant, old-growth trees of our economic forest fall, the seedlings and saplings - that is, the people determined to produce and sell new kinds of transportation and housing and media and other merchandise in new, economically rational ways - will have a clearer field in which to grow...
...King said that the social sciences are undergoing a historic transformation in response to the computer revolution. Out of necessity, he said, the field is becoming a “team sport” led by “collaborative interdisciplinary teams” akin to labs in the natural sciences. “There isn’t any other way to cope with the onslaught of data of different types and ever increasing quantities,” he said...