www.bloomberg.com Hedge-fund manager John Paulson’s wager on gold wiped out almost $1 billion of his personal wealth in the past two trading days as the precious metal plummeted 13 percent.

www.scientificamerican.com Mark Jacobson says he can run the planet solely on wind, water and solar energy. First stop: New York State, energy supply

www.nakedcapitalism.com Commentary on current economic and financial news.

A scene depicting runners at the Boston Marathon being killed and another depicting two bombs being detonated are SEPARATE SCENES but they are in the SAME EPISODE. This episode of Family Guy was broadcast 3 weeks ago.

www.economist.com SOME Israelis like to believe that Tel Aviv, Israel's bustling coastal metropolis, emerged from uninhabited sand dunes. But a new guidebook, “Omrim Yeshna Eretz”...

www.adweek.com Gil Zamora is an FBI-trained forensics artist with over 3,000 criminal sketches under his belt. Dove and Ogilvy Toronto hired him to interview and draw seven different women—two sketches of each. The first sketch was based on each woman's...

english.alarabiya.net Tunisia’s deposed president Zine El Abidine Ben Ali was given a five-year jail term in absentia

max at his most coherent http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IbSOHwCOnG0 In this episode of the Keiser Report, Max Keiser and Stacy Herbert discuss the role of market making in the orderly functioning of markets which explains the disorderly functioning of...

gizmodo.com Ah digital currency. It's all in our collective hive-mind right? Coming and going in bits and bytes. Nothing to see here. So why is a hacking process called "Bitcoin mining" using $150,000 worth of electricity a day?

"For many years the BIS kept a very low profile, operating behind the scenes in an abandoned hotel. It was here that decisions were reached to devalue or defend currencies, fix the price of gold, regulate offshore banking, and raise or lower short-term...