Ben Kerschberg

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Alex Ferguson, 1.5M Likes & The Social Stats In Full

simplyzesty.com — Yesterday morning, Sir Alex Ferguson announced his retirement from Manchester United, and social media imploded. Every now and then, a story like this will dominate the digital airwaves and this was no exception. So we tracked everything that happened during May 8th to see just how far reaching this story was.

Why Fantastically Wealthy Apple Is Borrowing Money

wired.com — Wall Street is buzzing about Apple issuing around $17 billion in bonds. What this means in simple terms is that Apple is borrowing billions of dollars, and paying out a small yield to the people and institutions that purchase the bonds Apple is offering.
NYTimes -- Profiles in Science: May-Britt and Edvard Moser Explore the Brain’s GPS bit.ly/11BXtec
Very interesting -- FiveThirtyEight: How Immigration Reform and Demographics Could Change Presidential Math bit.ly/ZzAi6x

How Immigration Reform and Demographics Could Change Presidential Math

fivethirtyeight.blogs.nytimes.com — A bill to allow unauthorized immigrants to gain citizenship carries electoral risks and rewards for the Republican Party. On the one hand, if the bill were passed, some of those immigrants would eventually vote. Roughly 80 percent of illegal immigrants are Hispanic, and about 10 percent are Asian - groups that voted heavily Democratic in the last two elections.
If we are to achieve things never before accomplished we must employ methods never before attempted — Sir Francis Bacon
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