Mar Vista Mom

Rutting Stags, Is It?

Check out how this psychologist reads the behavior on Wall Street: First of all, our financial system is based on illusion -- or rather, the shared belief that it all works. So when we all believe it works, then it does. And when we don't, it doesn't.

Plus listen to the testosterone reference and the pronouncement that women should run Wall Street. 

I have one thing to say: IT'S ABOUT TIME.

Audio from npr's Morning Edition, October 6, 2008.

Finally! It's About Time They Found It!

Here's the headline in the LA Times that caught my eye this morning:

UCLA mathematicians discover a 13-million-digit prime number

And here's the first sentence:

"UCLA mathematicians appear to have won a $100,000 prize from the Electronic Frontier Foundation for discovering a 13-million-digit prime number that has long been sought by computer users. "

I mean, I don't know about YOU, but I'VE been seeking it for YEARS. Probably ever since I even STARTED using a computer.

So I'm taking the rest of the day off.

(Read the whole story here.)