Michael Covel: News & Info.

if it is possible to have a second life, is it possible for a second life to have a second life? Is that where we are headed?

This article states:

A day of exceptionally volatile gyrations in stocks left traders exhausted, and showed how nervous investors still are about the market’s prospects. Stocks began the day by soaring on news of a new Federal Reserve program to lend banks money, but then sagged as the day wore on amid concerns that the Fed’s efforts might not be enough.

Isn’t any explanation plausible after the fact?

And the relevance of the following clip? Practice.

I spoke with Chris, Howard and Steve today for my film. They had some very interesting perspectives on risk, loss, winning, imperfect knowledge, competition, regulation, games and life to name a few topic areas.

Mark Dooley’s review of “The Complete TurtleTrader”.

An interesting take on the search for value.

Ugly people fight back.

We can give kids all the free junk food in the world for getting good grades, but if our educational system continues to teach the wrong lessons, the whole debate is silly.

The teenage brain, Laurence Steinberg says, is like a car with a good accelerator but a weak brake. With powerful impulses under poor control, the likely result is a crash. That said, does that mean we give the punk who shot and killed Washington Redskin player Sean Taylor a break because he was 17?

Why do men dominate the fields of science, engineering and mathematics? Read.