A Look At The Narrow Point Of Intersection Between Mental Health And Gun Violence
February 28, 2018
https://www.npr.org/2018/02/28/589600339/a-look-at-the-narrow-point-of-intersection-between-mental-health-and-gun-violenc
psychiatric diagnosis is itself not a predictive science. In other words, there’s nothing in psychiatric diagnosis that’s going to tell you how somebody is going to act in one week or one year.
P21
http://www.p21.org/index.php
American Institutes for Research
https://www.air.org
EPA Expected to Issue Million-Year-Long Regulation
November 24, 2006
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=6525491
In the coming weeks, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is expected to issue a regulation that will extend 1 million years into the future.
The timescale of the regulation, which deals with the disposal of power plant nuclear waste, is unprecedented territory for the EPA.
Fortune-Tellers, Step Aside: Big Data Looks For Future Entrepreneurs
October 5, 2014
http://www.npr.org/sections/alltechconsidered/2014/10/05/351851015/fortune-tellers-step-aside-big-data-looks-for-future-entrepreneurs
one firm is taking things one step further (or, actually, backward) by using an algorithm to try to find entrepreneurs before they even start a company.
Roy Bahat leads the venture capital firm Bloomberg Beta, which launched in June of last year.
we’ll see an even greater use of predictive analytics soon. “I am a believer that the things that we see in science fiction will eventually come to pass,” he says — think Minority Report and Gattaca.
Predictwise
http://predictwise.com
a research project led by David Rothschild who is an economist at Microsoft Research in New York City
2016 President Nomination
related:
https://franzcalvo.wordpress.com/2014/04/03/wisdom-of-the-crowds
Tech Company Hyperloop Doesn’t Pay Its Employees — At Least Not In Cash
October 15, 2015
http://www.npr.org/2015/10/15/448980996/tech-company-hyperloop-doesnt-pay-its-employees-at-least-not-in-cash
… another area of innovation in Silicon Valley is how we work, mainly the structure of our offices and companies. Hyperloop is a company that has no employees, doesn’t pay any salaries, but has hundreds of extremely talented workers nonetheless.
What people in 1900 thought the year 2000 would look like
October 4, 2015
http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonkblog/wp/2015/10/04/what-people-in-1900-thought-the-year-2000-would-look-like
There are few things as fascinating as seeing what people in the past dreamed about the future.
“France in the Year 2000” is one example. The series of paintings, made by Jean-Marc Côté and other French artists in 1899, 1900, 1901 and 1910, shows artist depictions of what life might look like in the year 2000.
