Mo' Money, Mo' Problems: Morning Report 11/18/13
"Because, you know, resilience — if you think of it in terms of the Gold Rush, then you'd be pretty depressed right now because the last nugget of gold would be gone. But the good thing is, with innovation, there isn't a last nugget. Every new thing creates two new questions and two new opportunities." - Jeff Bezos
Pictured Above: Moon rise over Mono Lake in Mono County, California, formed at least 760,000 years ago. The lake has no outlet to the ocean, causing high levels of salts to accumulate. And really awesome moon rises.
Relevant and less-than-relevant goings-on from around the interwebs:
- Mo' Money, Mo' Problems: Bitcoin — flush with "cash" that the U.S. won't be raking in — once-common currency for dope, now crowdfunding assassinations. Whatever you're buying, the gold rush is on. [The Next Web, CoinDesk, Forbes, Engadget]
- Chip On His Shoulder: Dr. Joy Lakar's confusing arrest and subsequent fall from grace, all over a small piece of computer tech. [NYT]
- Be Careful What You Wish For: Isaac Asimov, renowned sci-fi scribe, on living past your welcome. And what to do with posthumous data in the age of the Cloud. [Slate, The Next Web]
- Dazed and Confused: The perils of alternative medicine on concussed athletes, speaking to the mysterious case of Bernie Kosar. [The New Republic]
- Rumor Has It: Conspiracy Theories 101. [New York Magazine]
- History, as we see the world today. [Histogram]
- Up In the Clouds: Luigi Prina, a man of big-but-small dreams. [Blinking City]
- Behind the Scenes: A peek at Caterham — a car company of innovative means — and their Formula 1 racing team. [Ars Technica]
Also, did you know... Light from the horizon travels through much more atmosphere as light from the zenith, losing blue components, causing what appears as a blue gradient: vivid at the zenith, and pale near the horizon. [Wikipedia]