Book Review: Bird Sense: What It Is like to Be a Bird by Tim Birkhead - Seattle Post Intelligencer
28 May 2012, 1:34 am
Today I was watching a buzzard soar above the Morvan National Park in Burgundy. Tonight, I'm listening to one owl - maybe more - hooting gently in the valley below me that the raptor was dominating earlier, as the scene is very gently lit by a waxing, but ...

Baby wrangler makes it look like child's play - Los Angeles Times
27 May 2012, 10:28 pm
On the set of “What to Expect When You’re Expecting,” baby wrangler Dawn Jeffory-Nelson was responsible for 50 young actors — ranging from 15-day-old newborns to 5-year-old kids. Throughout the nine-week shoot last summer in the Atlanta ...

Why we like to watch Facebook struggle - CNN
25 May 2012, 12:22 pm
In the whirlwind of its IPO fallout, there has been a sort of glee in watching the company stumble. What's driving the Facebook-schadenfreude and what can the social network do about it? FORTUNE – We all love a rags-to-riches story, but a ...

You May like Facebook Camera, But You'll Still Love Instagram - PC World
25 May 2012, 10:13 am
After paying $1 billion to acquire Instagram about six weeks ago, Facebook recently launched its own Instagram clone, Facebook Camera, and like many people I wanted to check it out right away. “Great, it’ll be like Instagram, but only with photos from ...

What's Up, Doc? When Your Doctor Rushes like The Road Runner - NPR News
24 May 2012, 3:08 pm
To physician Larry Shore of My Health Medical Group in San Francisco, it's no surprise that patients give doctors low marks for time and attention. "There's some data to suggest that the average patient gets to speak for between 12 and 15 ...

Facebook Analysts Who Shunned Herd Now Look like Heroes - Bloomberg
22 May 2012, 7:00 pm
Analysts who broke away from the herd and told investors to avoid Facebook Inc. (FB), the biggest initial public offering ever by a technology company, are looking like heroes after the stock plunged. The social networking site lost 19 percent ...

Why Private Equity Firms like Bain Really Are the Worst of Capitalism - Rolling Stone
22 May 2012, 6:52 pm
Romney wants us to believe that critics of private equity are against capitalism. They’re not. They’re against a predatory system created and perpetuated by Wall Street solely to pump its own profits. Defenders of private equity say firms ...

Is This What a Chinese Internet Censor Job Ad Looks like? - Wall Street Journal
21 May 2012, 8:09 am
Ever wonder if you have the chops to slash content from the Chinese Internet before the government mandates it? Well now you can answer the call. Sina Corp., which runs the popular Twitter-like microblogging service Weibo, posted a notice on the ...

McConnell: Obama needs to act like an adult - CBS News
19 May 2012, 6:56 pm
(CBS News) The top Republican in the Senate, Mitch McConnell of Kentucky, criticized President Obama for failing to lead on the debt, calling it the nation's "biggest problem," and indicating that nothing will get done about it until he takes ...

like the Video? I Wrote the Book - New York Times
19 May 2012, 6:56 pm
THE first time I’d ever heard that there were video previews for books was when I was told I had to make one. A few months before my own book was to be released, my publisher advised me that official book trailers were now routinely posted on ...