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Are Major Oil Suppliers Manipulating the Price of Oil?
Suppose that major suppliers in the oil industry are the manipulative speculators. Two Stanford students explained how in the article 'Are Oil Prices Rigged?' in Time Magazine, last August 22, 2008, (Ari J. Officer studies financial mathematics at Stanford University.... Fed to Ask 'Mrs Jeeves' About Tax Evasion
She has charged a lot on her carrier and has never paid her taxes. Now the FED is asking her to pay the bill over the income she earned as prostitute in 2003. Maybe she can escape from that taxes saying she was... The end of steroids? New device enhances performance in the palm of your hand
New technology out of Stanford gets you to put gloves on instead of taking them off when things heat up. Two biologists, Dennis Grahn and Craig Heller have designed a device called “the glove” that cools...Q&A: Stanford financial economist Darrell Duffie discusses government takeove...
Since the government announced its takeover plan of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, stock markets in the United States and around the world have rallied and mortgage rates have dropped. But the latest turn in the credit...England declare ODI team for India tour
"England’s selectors have named a 15-man squad for the Stanford Super Series and the seven-match one-day tour of India that gets underway in November, with Ryan Sidebottom earning a recall after an injury disrupted season. He comes in to replace Tim Bresnan, although will... Google Turns Ten
Stanford University students Sergey Brin and Larry page submitted a paper entitled "The Anatomy of a Large-Scale Hypertextual Web Search Engine"..." In this paper, we present Google, a prototype of a large-scale... Stanford's 'autonomous' helicopters teach themselves to fly
Scratch another one off the list of "things only humans can do". This is not even a full artificial "intelligence"; it just learns how to compute data and algorithyms to fly a remote control helicopter, beaming instructions by radio signal 20 times a second. However, that... Sex, Men and Video Tape of Women...
"Sex, Men and Video Tape of Women... Have you ever wondered was going through the minds of financial titans when they make they take huge monetary decisions or risk? Well... Medical Wikipedia in the works
A new project to compile the largest online medical resource is underway. It's based on the same technology used by Wikipedia and is intended to make esoteric medical information widely accessible and easy to... Why We Save Stuff
Ever help a friend move and find yourself asking, why is she keeping that? A new study may have the answer. When people were asked to choose between an iPod and, say, $100, they were more likely to choose the money. But when they were given an iPod and then immediately...Police say man in wheelchair robbed bank
" PALO ALTO, Calif. - Palo Alto police are looking for a bank robber who favors a decidedly slow-speed getaway vehicle — an electric wheelchair. Police said a man in his 60s with gray hair and a beard held up the Wachovia Bank branch at the Stanford...Lawrence Lessig Not Running for Congress
Disappointment 2.0: cue a collective tech community sigh of 'free cultural' resignation. (sigh)"After being urged to run by a Facebook group, then launching a Lessig08 site, Stanford Law professor and free culture...Male video game addiction is neural, study suggests
"Men are more rewarded by video games than women on a neural level, which explains why they're more likely to become addicted to them, researchers at Stanford University claim." Breakthrough! 40-Hour Laptop Batteries about to storm markets
Imagine running your laptop nonstop from New York to Tokyo -- crunch some numbers, work on a memo pop in a few DVDs-- and then do a full day of meetings, using your machine throughout the day and into the night. Imagine doing all this without ever plugging in your computer to... Issoff Mr and Mrs Google founder wedding Today
Issoff Google founder wedding plans adrift due to weather Late this night I got a confirmation that some people I knew had indeed traveled to Necker Island for Google cofounder Larry Pages hitching to the Stanford Ph D Okay the wedding didn t happen Saturday yet another error...
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