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Final Frontier: Space Collisions and Liability - Timothy Nelson, a parnter at Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP, has considered a future where private spacecraft and their jetsam clog Earth's orbit...22 hours ago
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The Big Easy's Hometown Paper - (Flickr/Earthhopper) As of this fall, I'll be living in the largest American city without a daily paper. The Newhouse-owned New Orleans *Times-Picayune*'s...1 day ago
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Berlusconi's 'burlesque games' apparently included dressing up as Barack Obama - It's often said that politics makes strange bedfellows. Leave it to Silvio Berlusconi, the scandal-ridden former premier of Italy, to make the platitude ...1 day ago
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Heroes without Health Insurance - This weekend is Memorial Day Weekend. It is a time to celebrate the service of current and former members of the military. Although military veterans garn...1 day ago
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A New Taste for Collard Greens - The large, sturdy leaves of collard greens hold up so well to heat that they can be used in a variety of creative dishes, writes Martha Rose Shulman in thi...1 day ago
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Leveson's unlearnt lesson - The Leveson inquiry has drawn our attention to a fundamental political problem which hasn't had the attention it deserves. I'm referring to the fact that Jer...1 day ago
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Obama's Deficits: The Buck Stops Nowhere in US - *The President--whoever he is--has to decide. He can't pass the buck to anybody. No one else can do the deciding for him. That's his job* - Harry Truman ...1 day ago
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Politics and the Internet - A few months ago, I posted a draft article on Politics and the Internet that was forthcoming in the Annual Review of Political Science. The final version i...1 day ago
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Neuro images - So how did I not know about the amazing neuroimages blog? It has plenty of beautiful pieces like this taken from neuroimaging to historical neuroscience to...1 day ago
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The relative expansion of central banks’ balance sheets - Dave Altig's recent macroblog post on policy actions that affected the Fed's balance sheet made me wonder about how changes to the Fed's balance sheet since ...2 days ago
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Motorola V300 Subsidy Password - Connecting customers through various major network systems across the motorola v300 subsidy password to release the *motorola v300 subsidy password* in d...2 days ago
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The green fields of nuclear power (updated) - Despite Fukushima and the failure of the US “nuclear renaissance”, nuclear power still has plenty of fans in Australia. A question which opponents routinel...2 days ago
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The Wiggles Are No Longer Ready to Wiggle - [This post appeared on the Parentonomics blog at Forbes on 17th May 2012] Today marks the end of an era for parents. The remaining three original membe...4 days ago
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What Do Spoilers Spoil? - There is an upside to knowing plot twists in advance, isn't there?4 days ago
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Should Greece Exit the Euro Zone? Becker - Countries run balance of payments deficits when their tradable goods are expensive on world markets because their producers are not sufficiently cost effecti...5 days ago
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Flame Retardants and our Political Mess - Readers comment on my column about the lack of regulation of potentially hazardous chemicals as a textbook example of the failure of Washington.6 days ago
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Who Pays for Online Discounts? - The other day I woke up, looked in the mirror, and decided it was time for a haircut. Rather than picking up the phone and calling the salon where I’ve go...2 weeks ago
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Rose: Protectionism is acyclical - Andrew Rose: Almost everyone agrees that protectionism is countercyclical; tariffs, quotas, and the like grow during recessions. The abstract of Bagwell an...4 weeks ago
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A Home in the Colonias | The New York Times - A Home in the Colonias | The New York Times This video is about 5 years old, but it shows some the living conditions where we will be working in South Texas...4 weeks ago
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The latest discussions about economics research in the blogosphere - Follow the latest blog posts discussing economics research throughout the blogosphere.4 weeks ago
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You Can’t Make This Stuff Up - From the comments: I did ride my bike to the gym this morning and thus only did 5 minutes on the treadmill to warm up before lifting! If I’d driven, I’d ha...1 month ago
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Bullish It - OK, so I decided to do a substantive post – something I haven’t done in a while because this blog has fallen into the category where, if I have the time an...1 month ago
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Why Don't We Read About Architecture? - Jargon interferes with our appreciation of the art that has perhaps the most impact on us.2 months ago
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Good Text Book on Public Policy - Section I: What Is Public Policy? Chapter 1: Public Decision Making Chapter 2: Why Is It So Hard to Make the World a Better Place? Sectio...5 months ago
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Spherical Waves and the Hairy Ball Theorem - Boy howdy do we love spheres in physics. Sure we might tell you that the reason involves deep truths in topology, and symmetry, and group theory, and all...9 months ago
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Google Plus – Innovators and Early Adopters - On June 28, 2011, Google+ launched with a limited, invitation-only beta. Now, nearly a month and half later and a less restrictive invitation policy, what ...9 months ago
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Annual semi-data-driven favorite songs list: 2011 - It’s time once more to take a semi-data-driven look back at my 10 favorite songs of the year just ended. (I have previously conducted this empirical/subjec...11 months ago
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this site is moving - After more than eight years at this address and more than more than seven years blogging with the same old version of MovableType software, I am shifting ove...1 year ago
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A Conversation about Gasoline Prices - According to yesterday’s weekly federal report, This Week in Petroleum, the average price of regular gasoline is up to $3.96 per gallon, just 15 cents shy ...1 year ago
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Behavioural Economics and Irish Public Policy - posted the following on irisheconomy.ie I have posted a few times (here and here) before on developments in the micro-side of behavioural economics. I thin...1 year ago
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Gobal Civil Society in the making - by Johannes Staemmler The number of internationally operating NGOs has risen drastically over the last years. They are to some extent an indicator for what...1 year ago
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Moving Day for This Blog: Thanks for Everything! - In August, 2007, the Freakonomics blog took up residence on NYTimes.com. It has been a great ride. But now we are riding off, back to an independent Freako...1 year ago
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U-verse app delivers TV to smartphones - ‘Place-shifting’ technology, pioneered by companies like Sling Media with its SlingBox and SlingPlayer Mobile service, has proved popular with consumers ...1 year ago
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An Announcement - Michael Blowhard writes: Dear Friends -- You imagine it can't happen to you, and then it does. Here's why 2Blowhards disappeared: Our webhost, who'd given ...1 year ago
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Goodbye Scienceblogs - NOTE: This blog has moved. The Frontal Cortex is now over here. I've got some exciting news: Starting today, the Frontal Cortex will be moving over to th...1 year ago
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Armenian genetics - Armenian genes: Scientist in Yerevan launches a project to reveal genetic history of the nation. The description of the science in the piece is *very*garble...2 years ago
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REFORM: Increasing Medicare Payroll Tax Musters Support - The Center on Budget and Policy Priorities concludes that the idea of raising the Medicare payroll tax "on high-wage earners would represent a sound and ...2 years 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 years 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...3 years 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...3 years 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...4 years ago
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