Newmark's Door

Steve Forbes writes a nice appreciation of A. P. Giannini. 

To paraphrase a car ad from 80s: Capitalism--there is no substitute.

While I question how Bloomberg Markets knows the actual performance figures, if the figures reported here are even half true, they make Warren Buffett look like a rank amateur.

So-called liquid biopsies: bring them on!

Related: "We May Never Cure Cancer, But We Will End Cancer Deaths".

This could be really and truly huuuuuuge.

(But I wouldn't bet the ranch on it yet.)

Skepticism from "crackpot_killer". (Link via Marginal Revolution.)

And then there's this: if the EM drive really works, everybody--Newton, Einstein, Maxwell, quantum physics--is wrong.

And just how significant do you feel today?

. . . researchers estimate that Vela could contain somewhere between 1,000 and 10,000 trillion stars.

Well, I like 'em.

It has taken about a year longer than I thought it would take, but I knew--I just knew--the complaining would start.

"Everyone likes a good twist—unless you're one of those assholes who figures it out in the first half-hour and loudly whispers it so the whole theater can hear."

The Browns have a long way to go.

Tom Petty and his friends doing what they do.

(Somebody should write--if it hasn't already been written--an article on the history and application of the "a little bit softer now" break in rock music. An example starts at 1:58 of the above video.)