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Companies Monitor Employees’ Biosignals; Chicago Ode to Robber Baron; Dyett High School Hunger Strike Meeting
Beware Of Companies Whose Names End In Yze. Finance is adopting sophisticated analytics to ensure business performance from high-dollar employees. Cambridge neuroscientist and former Goldman Sachs trader John Coates works with companies to figure out how monitoring biological signals can lead to trading success; his research focuses on measuring hormones that increase confidence and other desirable states as well as those that produce negative, stressful states.
Chicago’s Taxpayer-Funded Ode to Robber Barons. The new national monument to corporate greed created in Chicago is on the site of what had been Pullman, a company town created by the feudalistic 19th-century profiteer George Pullman. He amassed a fortune by infamously suppressing the wages of his factory workers.
Illumination Project Asks Where The Money Went. The room was filled with supporters of the Dyett High School hunger strikers. People young and old expressed their anger and aspirations, stepping up to the mike and demanding that the mayor first meet with the hunger strikers and accept the community-development proposal to transform Dyett into a global leadership and green technology academy.
