Posts tagged as:

United States

The Best Stranded-By-The-Airlines Experience Ever

January 5, 2009

described how a bad flight flight and missed connection turned into a fun experience

Read the full article →

Second Career Secrets Profile #1: Financial Reporting Manager

November 9, 2008

Describes the financial reporting profession, its risks and benefits, compensation, job qualities, and job duties

Read the full article →

Top Ten Things To Do In Los Angeles (With Kids)

October 15, 2008

Useful list about cheap and kid-friendly places in Los Angeles that helps parents, tourists, and locals find fun and interesting things for their kids to do.

Read the full article →

Ocean Currents See Red

October 8, 2008

Scientists at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute created an ocean circulation model that revolutionizes the way scientists can see ocean currents.

Read the full article →

Looking Ahead: International Challenges for the Next Administration

October 8, 2008

today’s current events are reviewed: challenges for the next president in international relations and threats to international security

Read the full article →

Gravity is a Beautiful Thing

October 3, 2008

Beautiful photography (top 50) of gravitational fields and their many colors

Read the full article →

Eye on Congress: Easier Ways for You To Vote

October 2, 2008

Voting is important, but it is – at times – somewhat inconvenient. If you have small kids, a crazy time at work, a strict schedule, or a boss who doesn’t share your sense of patriotic duty, getting to the polls can be a challenge. Via Lifehacker, YTP found this site that tells you if your [...]

Read the full article →

Primo Education on Subprime Errors

October 1, 2008

The YTP Uncle sent in a link from a useful article in the NYT (offseting its earlier poor performance on the India nuclear deal) that explains the subprime mortgage crisis in direct, plain language. It touches briefly on bundling (where the subprime mortgages were bundled into groups of mortgages and traded as a single entity, [...]

Read the full article →

Eye on Congress: Project Vote Smart

September 30, 2008

Perhaps the most useful tool in understanding your elected leaders in the House and the Senate resides at Project Vote Smart. While not completely devoid of a left-of-center bias, the site is extremely useful for giving you well organized, accessible information about your elected officials and upcoming elections all the way down to the local [...]

Read the full article →

Eye on Congress: An Introduction

September 28, 2008

YTP was reading the other day about two American sociological and cultural trends that had dramatic consequences for today’s political situation. The first was a shift from respect for people in positions of authority to near automatic criticism of them. The second was a shift from Congressional scrutiny to Executive branch scrutiny. Both of these [...]

Read the full article →