Mitchell Tsai

Generations of Eastern European housewives doing battle against bedbugs spread bean leaves around the floor of an infested room at night. In the morning, the leaves would be covered with bedbugs that had somehow been trapped there. The leaves, and the pests, were collected and burned — by the pound, in extreme infestations. - Mitchell Tsai

A study published Wednesday in The Journal of the Royal Society Interface details the scientists’ quest, including their discovery of how the bugs get hooked on the leaves, how the scientists have tried to recreate these hooks synthetically and how their artificial hooks have proved to be less successful than the biological ones. - Mitchell Tsai

The first mobile call was placed April 3, 1973, by Motorola engineer Martin Cooper, head of a team working on mobile communication technologies. - Mitchell Tsai

An unknown man stole $33 million from an Australian casino by hacking into its surveillance footage and having the information relayed to him via earpiece. - Mitchell Tsai

According to Las Vegas-based casino consultant Barron Stringfellow, pulling off this type of heist takes far fewer resources than an "Ocean's Eleven"-type sting. Instead, most of the equipment can purchased at any local electronics store. "Intercepting them [the surveillance signals] is simple as going down to a local Radio Shack," he told ABC. - Mitchell Tsai

The player wears an earpiece that is fed information from an accomplice sitting somewhere in the casino or outside of it. This person would have access to the casino's surveillance feed and would be watching the action on the table. They would then relay the best plays and bets to the player. - Mitchell Tsai

The Arica School's origins began in 1956 when groups of people formed in major cities in South America to study the thoughts that Ichazo was proposing. For fourteen years these different groups studied his teachings. In 1968 Ichazo presented lectures on his theories of Protoanalysis and the ego-fixations at the Institute of Applied Psychology in Santiago, Chile. - Mitchell Tsai

Ichazo is considered by many to be the father of the Enneagram of Personality (usually just called the Enneagram) movement which uses an enneagram figure. - Mitchell Tsai

The popular use of the Enneagram of Personality (as contrasted with the use of enneagrams within the Arica School) began principally with Claudio Naranjo who had studied with Ichazo in Chile. - Mitchell Tsai

Mr. Papola clearly believes that your consumption of goods is justified only by your prior production of goods. ... Effort and reward -- work performed and income received -- are transparently aligned in this austere moral sequence, but, alas, it has nothing to do with the world as it exists. For no one can demonstrate an intelligible or morally justifiable relation between work performed and income received -- not since outputs started increasing without any measurable increase of inputs, around 1910. - Mitchell Tsai

US Population growth since 1940 1.2%/year, but US Spending growth on Social Security since 1940 14%/year, Medicare since 1970 11%/year, Defense since 1940 7.4%/year. - Mitchell Tsai

[Picture] Annual Income share of the US Top 1% http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki... - Mitchell Tsai

Europe in on a rampage against sky-scraping compensation packages. Months after France announced a new confiscatory top tax rate, the EU recently capped banker bonuses at twice their salary. This weekend, Switzerland voted to put historic restrictions on corporate pay. Two-thirds of a national referendum (in one of the finance capitals of the world!) voted to give shareholders the right to slash their executives' compensation and banned "golden parachutes" for outgoing executives. - Mitchell Tsai

Couldn't find it at the local Home Depot. Seems like you have to order this on-line now. Recommended to me 15 years ago by a fantastic landlord who used it to clean apartments left in disaster-area shape by poor tenants. - Mitchell Tsai

Wagasky, 28, lives with her her husband, Jason, 31, and their two young children in a three-bedroom family home in Las Vegas, Nevada. While Jason, a member of the U.S. Army, completes his undergraduate studies, the family's only source of income is the $14,000 annual cost of living allowance he receives under the G.I. Bill. Despite all odds, the family has barely any credit card debt, no car payment, and no mortgage. - Mitchell Tsai

Wagasky has been sharing her journey to living meaningfully and frugally on her blog, Blissful and Domestic, since 2009. http://www.blissfulanddomestic.com/ - Mitchell Tsai

When the research began in 2000, Dr. Megargee said he expected to find perhaps 7,000 Nazi camps and ghettos, based on postwar estimates. But the numbers kept climbing — first to 11,500, then 20,000, then 30,000, and now 42,500. - Mitchell Tsai

The numbers astound: 30,000 slave labor camps; 1,150 Jewish ghettos; 980 concentration camps; 1,000 prisoner-of-war camps; 500 brothels filled with sex slaves; and thousands of other camps used for euthanizing the elderly and infirm, performing forced abortions, “Germanizing” prisoners or transporting victims to killing centers. - Mitchell Tsai

can't really get my head around this :( - MiniMage

It's like the 25-40 million people Chairman Mao killed in China. Staggering. ... On the positive incredible side, 140 million babies are born every year! (400,000/day. 16,000/hour). - Mitchell Tsai

I didn't think it possible but Hawaiian Airlines' Honolulu and Kahului flights are even cheaper than last week—and by as much as 45 percent! Round-trip rates start at $245 (Kahului flights from Oakland and San Jose), but the deepest discounts can be found on the Honolulu routes from Phoenix (the aforementioned 45 percent) and from San Diego (33 percent) since last week. Prices on all routes went down except for Las Vegas/Honolulu's, which only hiked 6 percent. - Mitchell Tsai

In modern times Timbuktu has become a synonym for a remote place. But the city thrived for centuries at the crossroads of the region’s two great highways: the caravan route across the Sahara passed right by its narrow warren of streets, bringing salt, spices and cloth from the north, and the Niger River brought gold and slaves from West Africa. - Mitchell Tsai

Traders brought books, and the city’s scribes earned their living by copying them out by hand. These manuscripts cover a vast range of human knowledge — Islamic philosophy and law, of course, but medicine, botany and astronomy as well. - Mitchell Tsai