Interesting Articles: June 20-26 2005

* Looking Long Term? Get Your Glasses. i.e., most investors don't look more than a few years ahead, even for trends that are quite predictable into the future. (New York Times)
* Gay or Straight? Hard to Tell. (New York Times)
* Some Politics May Be Etched in the Genes. i.e., yet another article relating relating high-level behaviors with genetics. (But, in contrast to the previous articles mentioned in this blog about this, they have not determined how complex the genetic control of these opinions are.) (New York Times)
* Black Market in Stolen Credit Card Data Thrives on Internet. i.e., the eBays of stolen credit card data. (New York Times)
* Steve Jobs' Stanford 2005 Commencement Speech, and the article covering the commencement. (Stanford Report)
* I read this New York Times article, On Autism's Cause, It's Parents vs. Research, right after reading this New York times article, Opting Out in the Debate on Evolution. They provide an interesting contrast: in the first, politicians and the religious right aren't listening to / believing the scientists; in the second, parents aren't. (I wonder if the parents in this latter argument are conservative or liberal... I'd actually guess liberal, which would make the contrast even more striking.)