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Winter is icumen in - Winter is icumen in, Lhude sing Goddamm, Raineth drop and staineth slop, And how the wind doth ramm! Sing: Goddamm. Skiddeth bus and sloppeth us, An ague hat...13 hours ago
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Living With Music: A Playlist by Rus Bradburd - Rus Bradburd is the author of "Paddy on the Hardwood: A Journey in Irish Hoops." The book chronicles his quest to learn the fiddle in Ireland while his bas...14 hours ago
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Can't get you out of my head - Sometimes songs get 'stuck in our head'. In German, this experience is known as having an 'earworm' and a new study shortly to be published in the British Jo...14 hours ago
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Schools that beat the odds. - For various reasons I’ve been thinking a lot about schools that beat the odds lately (schools with high need student populations but which get high achieve...1 day ago
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The allure of annual to-do lists in business - So, how was it for you? The last set of board meetings I have attended have all been about the likely outcome for 2009 – and the prospects for next year. M...1 day ago
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Another rescue plan comes in below the original price tag - Though the tab to taxpayers could still be substantial when all is said and done, it now appears the taxpayer cost of the Troubled Asset Relief Program (TARP...1 day ago
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Social Status - In the latest Mind Matters, Adam Waytz (an old college friend, co-author of my favorite book on basketball, *The Macrophenomenal Pro Basketball Almanac*, ...1 day ago
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Eyes on the Ground - Photo by Tom Vanderbilt I flew in L.A. traffic reporter Mike Nolan’s Cessna as part of the research for Traffic. The piece of paper taped to the stick abov...1 day ago
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Statement on asset sales - I’ve done this as a press release. See if anyone bites STATEMENT The government’s announced plans for privatisation show that Queenslanders are unlikely to...1 day ago
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Abstracts that caught my eye - Mary Amiti and David Weinstein: A striking feature of many financial crises is the collapse of exports relative to output. In the 2008 financial crisis, re...1 day ago
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Sunday Function - Here's a very simple function: [image: 1.png] You give it a positive real number, it gives you the square root. It maps 81 to 9, 100 to 10, 2 to 1.414.....2 days ago
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In The New York Times Magazine: Blu Dot’s Real Good Chair promotion - A REAL FIND? A furniture maker hypes its wares by leaving them out with the trash. In early November, a marketing agency’s “street team” began scattering a...4 days ago
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Off to India - Flying out to India in a few hours for a friend's wedding, so little or no blogging over here in the next 10 days. See you all then. Justin and Jacqueline ...5 days ago
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Transatlantic Relations: NATO and ESDP after Iraq - The role of the United States’ decision to invade Iraq in March 2003, without the support of NATO or the UN Security Council (UNSC), in triggering the curr...1 week ago
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Leggo My Eggo! Really! - It’s hard to miss the barren shelves in grocery stores due to a pending Eggo Waffle shortage. The recent run on the popular breakfast food is one of the fe...1 week ago
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Western Academe as the Bully Pulpit - It's no secret that authoritarianism and weak institutions have been culprits of poverty and underdevelopment around the globe. And there is nothing new in...1 week ago
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Clemons: Pricing Out an Afghan Surge: $65 Bill Could Go to $105 Billion per Year - [image: humvee us soldier.jpg] The Pentagon, which favors a surge in US troops to Afghanistan knows how defense bidding goes. They've seen enough of it f...2 weeks ago
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And the Winner: 'No Problem' - A look at some of the readers' responses to a column about current expressions that drive us up a wall.2 weeks ago
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News Corp. - If You de-Index Will They Still Come? - Two weeks ago we posted on Rupert Murdoch's threat to block Google from Indexing News Corp. content. While at first it seemed as though Murdoch was merely po...2 weeks ago
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Cold, Clothing and Fatality Risk - In just a few weeks, we will set out from sunny (currently 30 degree plus) Melbourne to Boston where there is, right now, sunny but that hasn't stopped sin...2 weeks ago
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Assorted - 2009 edition of the World Energy Outlook (WEO) If Statisticians Could Turn Back Time Effective Habits for writers? I'm interested in doing very few things...3 weeks ago
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The Economics of Organizations--Posner - Oliver Williamson, an economist who won half a Nobel prize last week, has made important contributions to a field of economics that is not as well known as i...1 month ago
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One time return to blogging - My post on the G-20’s agenda can be found on the official Pittsburgh Summit blog.2 months ago
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Lunch w/ the FT... - ...last weekend, with Rory Stewart. I blog the lunch interview really for this snippet: Since arriving at Harvard in June last year, he has been consultant t...4 months ago
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More than a simple phone - Paul Taylor road tests the new generation of high-tech phones He writes: “I have to admit that when I first saw the HTC Magic smartphone at the Global Worl...4 months ago
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New site - I have a new site at *WordPress*: http://www.harryrclarke.com/ *Readers please adjust your browser settings. * ** It is goodbye *Blogger* for at least a wh...8 months ago
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Satan and the G-16: A Sacrilegious Rant and a (Modest?) Proposal - It appears now that the G-20 intend to make their compromise with the devil. That’s pretty much inevitable, since the devil is one of them. When I say the ...8 months ago
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For we are young and free? - As I've been spending this Australia Day long weekend writing about the paternalist nanny state in health policy, I have been struck by the multiplicity of...10 months ago
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Re-opening for business (in one form or another) - by Conor Clarke Hi again, and sorry for the publishing hiatus. The Creative Capitalism book is now done. It comes out December 2 -- "just in time for the hol...1 year ago
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Now also with non-English blogs - Now that I have figured out how to make the welcome message stick at the top, I will also post from time to time about additions. For the moment, I have ad...1 year ago
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The Noisy Game of Baseball - By Julie J. Rehmeyer Halfway through the 2005 baseball season, John Olerud was having a great year with the Boston Red Sox. His batting average was .405, far...1 year ago
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