Everything and Nothing
If somebody asks you what you are, here is one way to answer.
Humor, Life and Death, Philosophy, Physics
Work and Life, Corporate Life, Science
The Student Debt Crisis
This is a guest post by Sofia Rasmussen exploring the ramifications of student loan burdens.
Work and Life, Corporate Life, Environment
Ethics In Business and Leadership
Prof. Surya Sethi gave this speech at the World Forum for Ethics in Business – International Leadership Symposium
Monday, April 2, 2012 in Singapore. Passionate and eloquent, this speech details some of the shocking truths about the world we live in. A learned expose on the many topics I have tried to bring to my readers, this speech is reproduced on the Unreal Blog with the kind permission of the speaker.
Corporate Life, Quantitative Finance, Work and Life
Subprime: When Good Intentions Turned Sour
As the world is still feeling the reverberations of the 2008 global financial crisis, a lot of blame has been
Philosophy, Physics, Science, Quotes
Bye Bye Einstein
This last post in the series explains why I believe it is time to say goodbye to Einstein, and why I look forward to how our worldview develops in the light of this CERN discovery of material superluminality.
Physics, Science, Philosophy
Why not Discard Special Relativity?
This second post in my series on the superluminality observed (or suspected) at CERN looks at why we cannot accept it.
Philosophy, Physics, Science
Faster than Light
When they discovered particles going faster than light at CERN, they didn’t want to believe themselves. They were practically begging the rest of the community to find a mistake in this discovery. Why would they do that? This post and its follow ups will try to shed some light on this strange lack of faith.
How to Avoid Duplicate Imports in iPhoto
I just finished writing my first Mac application because I had a specific problem (duplicate imports of photos into my iPhoto Library) to solve. This problem may be fairly common, so I’m making it available (all right, selling it) to the general public. Here is a summary of what it does and how to get it.
Uncategorized
Accidental Writer
I consider myself an accidental writer. Despite the modest success I enjoyed as a published writer and a columnist, writing
Quantitative Finance, Debates, The Wilmott Magazine
Risk – Wiley FinCAD Webinar
This post is an edited version of my responses in a Webinar panel-discussion organized by Wiley-Finance and FinCAD. The freely available Webcast is linked in the post, and contains responses from the other participants — Paul Wilmott and Espen Huag. An expanded version of this post may later appear as an article in the Wilmott Magazine.
Topical, Philosophy, Physics
What is Unreal Blog?
This post is an expanded version of a Web interview regarding my blog. It attempts to answer the question why I blog. And why one should take philosophy seriously. Seriously!