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Orchid Genes - David Dobbs has a fantastic new article on behavioral genetics at The Atlantic. He adds an important amendment to the vulnerability hypothesis, which hol...21 hours ago
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Boring Post About Cameras - Donald Pittenger writes: Dear Blowhards -- I'm back from California where, among other things, I gave my new digital camera a workout. As a result, you are...23 hours ago
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service-learning, the Buddha, Jesus, and Muhammad - The phrase "service-learning" seems to date from 1966. Nowadays, it means organized opportunities in schools or other educational institutions that combine c...23 hours ago
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Dodging the Vietnam draft - What percentage of draft eligible men did not, or would not, join the US military despite being drafted? How many men's enlistment in the military ultimate...1 day ago
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News Corp. Google-less? - Rupert Murdoch made an interesting statement in a Sky News interview today, when asked about news content available through search engines such as Google, Mu...1 day ago
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Sunday Function - Again I have to apologize for the sparseness of posting lately, but I've got two research projects going full blast and time has not been something I hav...2 days ago
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Crash Cab - You thought those TVs in the back of New York taxis were supremely annoying? South Korea has legalized TVs in the front of cabs, for the drivers.2 days ago
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Stories from Swine Flu in the UK and Germany - Any Lessons for the Policy Process? - Through the end of July, I lived in the United Kingdom. Its health care system is fairly nationalized–while there are separate services for England, Scotla...2 days ago
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Productivity and Jobs-Becker - Last week two pieces of news about the American economy were disclosed, with important implications for where the economy is going. On Thursday, the Labor De...2 days ago
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Offshoring and the composition of home employment - At Vox, Sascha Becker, Karolina Ekholm, and Marc Muendler use firm-level data from Germany to assess how the job composition at home changes when firms off...2 days ago
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Why Ahmadinejad Voted Against Occupying the U.S. Embassy in 1979 - This week, on the 30th anniversary of the takeover of the United States Embassy in Tehran, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad did not mention that, as a student leader in...3 days ago
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Is That a Plastic Bottle You're Drinking From? - BPA is a common chemical used in plastics and cans used to contain food, yet it seems to have far reaching effects on our health -- particularly for young ...3 days ago
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Sorting out books - As part of our packing we are sorting out stuff like books. Conversation with my 8 year old son. "2001. This book is 8 years old." "Well, actually, that b...4 days ago
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What is systemic risk, anyway? - On October 30, the Center for Financial Innovation and Stability at the Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta held a conference on Regulating Systemic Risk. The pr...4 days ago
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Virtually Bankrupt - The space-themed video game EVE Online is described as a massively multiplayer online game (or MMO). In other words, the game is played over the internet ...4 days ago
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Calling All Beta Testers! MindManager 8.2 for Windows Beta Release is Now Available - Are you up and running on Windows 7 yet? Want to leverage your touch screens and tablets to create mind maps? We’re getting ready to launch an update to Mi...5 days ago
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How to Save Economics--Yes, Macro Too - Never underestimate the forces of status quo... And now that all the dust has begun to settle from our economic--and, by extension, academic woes--we are pr...1 week ago
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Not New, But Improved - A big step forward in product design simply involves using better materials.1 week ago
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The Consolations of Economics and other Podcasts - Princeton’s Dixit Discusses Nobel for Ostrom, Williamson Calvo Sees Difficulty Unwinding Stimulus Packages Bill Clinton Cites Discipline, Growth to Cut Def...1 week 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.1 month 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...3 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...3 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...7 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 ...7 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...9 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...11 months 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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