Listen to the frequency. What frequency? THE Frequency!
Hear the sound of 2600, actually, the sound of 2600Hz: via lospadres.info. For further historical details regarding a certain telecommunications corporation with monopoly power, since dispersed, read...
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Senate Considers Banning Dial Phones
The date was was June 25, 1930, and the U.S. Senate considered the following resolution: Whereas dial telephones are more difficult to operate than manual telephones and Senators are required to...
View ArticleCopyright and Technology: Audio Recordings of U.S. History are Fading Fast
WASHINGTON-- New digital recordings of events in U.S. history and early radio shows are at risk of being lost much faster than older ones on tape and many are already gone, according to a study on...
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The Return of the Ex-Governors
via cbsnews.com .... no less than five ex-governors, who are years, even decades, away from the state house, have won their party's nomination to win back their old jobs. The most striking example to...
View ArticleMetaphor on 23rd Street
Two punks pushing middle age, a man and a woman dressed in black, sat together on a bench in the lobby of the Chelsea Hotel on the afternoon of Friday, Oct. 29. The room was decorated for Halloween......
View ArticleThe History of Goldman Sachs According to China
Sections enclosed in quotation are sourced directly from news.xinhuanet.com, China's official online news service The Goldman Sachs Group, Inc. is a global bank holding company engaged in investment...
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A Jewish Headstone and Some Orientalism
Image via wikimedia.org (H)ic requiescunt / in pace bene memori(ae) / tres fili(i) d(omi)ni Paragori / de filio (u)ondam d(omi)ni Sa/paudi id es Iusus Ma//trona et Dulciorella qui / vixserunt(!)...
View ArticleDisunion
One of the most important maps of the Civil War was also one of the most visually striking: the United States Coast Survey map of the slaveholding states, which clearly illustrates the varying...
View ArticleOur journey in space time with a digression on prime numbers
via genographic.nationalgeographic.com Give it a try! Click on genetic markers, or journey highlights. Travel from 200,000 B.C. (or B.C.E.) through nearly the present day. On the use of prime numbers...
View ArticleAn assortment of quantitative finance related entries
Some key events in the history of quantitative finance: 1952: Harry Markowitz, an economist at the University of Chicago, develops Modern Portfolio Theory, which holds that diversification can reduce...
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Return of the Magna Carta
via NIST to frame Magna Carta (17 Aug 2010) Why is the Magna Carta relevant? The original Magna Carta dates back to 1215, to England as ruled by King John I. It represents the transition from a...
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