Sunday, March 25, 2007

Places you'd rather want to be in

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- Faroe Islands (from NYT )

What Iraqi Government Promised IMF

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Some excerpts from Iraq: Letter of Intent, Memorandum of Economic and Financial Policies, and Technical Memorandum of Understanding ; The Go...

China beats US in EU imports

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Last year, imports from China into the 25 countries comprising the EU rose by 21 per cent to €191.5bn ($255bn, £130bn), according to Eurosta...
Saturday, March 24, 2007

Africans Assisting Africans?

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Angola sends ‘Ninja’ paramilitaries to bolster Mugabe’s security forces ; "About 2,500 Angolan paramilitary police, feared in their own...

Photo of the Day

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Dragon’s blood trees, Socotra , Yemen (from NYT )

BBC Guide to Euromyths

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Some examples of ‘ euromyths ’ from UK (via FP Blog ); BARMAIDS' BREASTS There was great alarm in 2005 when it was reported that "p...

Assorted University Blogs

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The MorningSide Post - SIPA Columbia FLETCHER Reflections - Tufts SAISgeist - John Hopkins
Friday, March 23, 2007

The Coming End of Musharaff

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Ahmed Rashid has good advice for Musharaff; "Moreover, Musharraf is losing control of three key elements that have sustained his rule ...
Thursday, March 22, 2007

Teaching Psychiatry with Hollywood

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"In the United States, a growing number of psychiatry professors see an answer in Hollywood and its large output of films that deal wit...

This and That on Global Warming

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Warmer, Warmer by John Lanchester (reviews of some recent books on the issue); We know all this, but whether any of it will actually happen ...

History Podcast of the Day- Bismark

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"The Iron Chancellor, Otto von Bismarck -one of Europe's leading statesmen in the 19th Century and credited with the unification of...
Wednesday, March 21, 2007

Doctors’ Ties to Drug Makers

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An interesting article from NYT on relationship between doctors and drug companies ; "Dr. Allan Collins may be the most influential kid...

Slavery Podcast

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As part of the commemorations for the 200th anniversary of the abolition of the British transatlantic slave trade, ‘Free at Last’ a three pa...

Is Capitalism bad for gender equality?

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"Similarly, the egalitarian legacy of communism could explain the high proportion of women near the top of companies in China and Russi...

Don’t Mess with Lawyers

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"Politics entered my life with two phone calls that I received last fall, just before the November election. One came from Representati...
Monday, March 19, 2007

Subsidies and Corruption

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Governor of Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe appears to be speaking out against his boss; Outlining some of the ways that Mr Mugabe's attempts ...

Has Your PC Been Hijacked?

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" More than six million computers world wide are now part of a "bot network", reported security firm Symantec . Computer user...

Education Facts

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-Over 100 million primary school-age children are out of school; -Roughly 380 million children are not enrolled in school (28 percent of th...

Cartoon of the Day

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Cartoon by Kevin Kallaugher of The Economist.

Q&A with Arnold Harberger

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Excerpts from an interview with Arnold Harberger ; Q: The majority of Latin American countries are now on the path to economic stability aft...
Sunday, March 18, 2007

Visual for the Day- Real Estate Prices

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-“ PRICE PEAKS AND VALLEYS ” shows real estate prices from November 2005-November 2006; "One way to understand where the housing slump ...

The Tolerant Zimbabweans

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The ability for human beings to tolerate brutality and dictatorship is truly amazing; “Once the bread-basket of southern Africa and one of t...

On the Wealth of Nations

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P.J O'Rourke interviewed on the Australian Radio about his recent book, On the Wealth of Nations . Listen to the podcast . Related On On...

Ramachandran on Phantom Penis

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“One striking example of this we've seen recently is some work I've done talking to transsexuals; these are people who want sexual r...

Socialist Women's Rights

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The Government of Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka has banned mothers from working abroad; A ban by the Sri Lankan government on y...

This and That

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Misleading Visual for the Day information visualization Database More on Interpreting Statistics Rich Writer Poor Thinker Infant mortality S...

Adjust rather than Reduce!

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An interview with Hans von Storch is one of Germany's leading researchers on climate change; SPIEGEL: Is it even possible to prevent glo...

Hugo Chavez's Tract on Monetary Reform

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"First, Mr. Chávez said the authorities would remove three zeroes from the denomination of the currency, the bolívar. Then he said the ...
Saturday, March 17, 2007

Free Read on Bird Flu

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Michael Greger's Bird Flu, A Virus of Our Own Hatching is available online. Related; The Next Pandemic? Effect Measure blog

Quote of the Day

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"Now, in the budget speech, I mentioned, this was the time the world looked very well. When I started we had a small deficit budget. Th...

A New Search Engine

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TimeSearch developed by Bamber Gascoigne . See also his website HistoryWorld .

Bringing Hayek to the Muslim World

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The western media seem more interested in people like Ayaan Hirsi Ali (her approach for reforming Islam would get a hearing only in the west...

Alexander Hamilton of Palestine?

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“An economist who curbed Yasser Arafat's freewheeling spending of public funds and earned the trust of the Bush administration is now th...

Clash of Cultures and Tourism?

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More on Topshop billionaire's £20m 'garden party' celebrations; “The two great deities sat facing one another, each a colossus,...

Discover Your Inner Economist with Tyler Cowen

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Tim Harford’s been reading Tyler’s new book- Discover Your Inner Economist: Use Incentives to Fall in Love, Survive Your Next Meeting, and ...

Dear Economist,

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"What are the psychosocial implications of disappearing pubic hair on women? Please address the subject from a cultural, political, eco...

AIDS Quote of the Day

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Economist Emily Oster : " Not having sex is like an investment, so you value it more the longer you expect to live in the future ....

Visual for the Day- Future Costs of Iraq

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From Foreign Policy magazine - see this post on their blog; Iraq is all about the benjamins Related; Chris Jordan Photographic Arts Cost An...
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I, Thong

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Globalisation is truly remarkable- a successful lace making business from Poland; "Lace wasn't selling in the quantities it once di...
Friday, March 16, 2007

Sir Philip Green's birthday party

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A billionaire who knows how to celebrate a birthday; “The billionaire Top Shop boss will celebrate his 55th birthday by flying 100 of his cl...

Tyler Cowen Prediction of the Day

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“ I think blogs are essentially replacing the op-ed and the newspaper . And I think three years from now most people who learn economics ...

Best Magazine Blogs of the Year

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Going over the 2007 National Magazine Award Finalists , I felt there should be an award for the best magazine blogs. Here’re my list of the ...
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Thursday, March 15, 2007

Literary Podcast- Epistolary Literature

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"From its first appearance in the 17th Century with writers like Aphra Behn , epistolary fiction , fiction in the form of letters, reac...

The Richest in the World

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The Forbes magazine "has counted a record 946 billionaires around the world, with a combined net worth of $3.5 trillion. Heading the l...