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• Why Is Her Paycheck Smaller? - Interactive Graphic - NYTimes.com - Nearly every occupation has the gap — the seemingly unbridgeable chasm between the size of the paycheck brought home by a woman and the larger one earned by a man doing the same job. Economists cite a few reasons: discrimination as well as personal choices within occupations are two major factors, and part of the gap can be attributed to men having more years of experience and logging more hours.
• Quantifying the Nightmare Scenarios - Freakonomics Blog - NYTimes.com - There’s no shortage of fear about the economy. But just how fearful should we be? Perhaps financial markets can provide some guidance.
• The great repression | The Australian - The solution to the debt crisis is not more debt but less debt. Two things must happen. First, banks that are de facto insolvent need to be restructured, a word that is preferable to the old-fashioned nationalisation. Existing shareholders will have to face that they have lost their money. Too bad; they should have kept a more vigilant eye on the people running their banks. Government will take control in return for a substantial recapitalisation after losses have meaningfully been written down. Bondholders may have to accept either a debt-for-equity swap or a 20 per cent "haircut" - a disappointment, no doubt, but nothing compared with the losses suffered when Lehman Brothers went under.
• Involution Studios • Building a Digital Concept Car - This could use some explanation by the creator - it appears to show the performance of various platforms and methods and specific attributes used to facilitate a mass-customization of a physical good via a digital process.
• McKinsey: What Matters: Building an innovation nation - McKinsey has partnered with the World Economic Forum to create an “Innovation Heat Map,” by identifying factors that are common to successful innovation hubs. As part of this effort, we have examined the evolution of hundreds of such clusters around the world and analyzed over 700 variables, including those driving innovation (business environment, government and regulation, human capital, infrastructure, and local demand) along with proxies for innovation output (for example, economic value added, journal publications, patent applications) to identify trends among the success stories. In the process, we have found patterns that suggest the critical ingredients required to grow, nurture, and sustain innovation hubs. At the same time, we have compiled thousands of data points that may be used to identify bottlenecks and benchmark the performance of cities, regions, and countries by measuring how they are evolving.
• Good design: The ten commandments of Dieter Rams - Useful to think of, regardless as to if your product is a hard good, process, or service.
• 11 Non-Traditional Uses of WordPress - Interesting. Blogging platform Wordpress implemented as contact manager, photo site clone, email newsletter manager, wiki, forum, membership directory, e-commerce site, and job board.
• 50+ Essential Techniques and Tools for Visualizing your Data | Graphs and Charts | Tools - Charts and Graphs are ideal to visualize data in order to quickly give your readers an understanding of the nature of a given problem or recent developments. Whatever type of data presentation you prefer or suits you data (pie charts, bubble charts, bar graphs, network diagrams etc.), there are many different options but how do you get started and what is technologically possible?

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