Saturday, August 30, 2008

George Washington on leadership

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Be realistic about politics

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Dear Sara : Thanks for writing. I often say, quite sincerely, that I'm not cynical about politics; I'm realistic about poli...

The Plight of Dalits

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There are about 200 million Dalits , or members of the Scheduled Castes, as they are known officially, in India. They remain socially scorne...

Yoga for bloggers

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Yoga for Computer Users: Healthy Necks, Shoulders, Wrists, and Hands in the Postmodern Age

How to dog-train your kids

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One of the best TED talks; The Anti-Cesar Millan Sirius Dog Training , as Dunbar called it, showed proven positive results from early off-le...
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Friday, August 29, 2008

Photography connects us with the world

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Can kids teach themselves?

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The World in Six Songs

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The World in Six Songs: How the Musical Brain Created Human Nature More podcasts; Musical Endings Canadian Music
Thursday, August 28, 2008

Singapore debate legalising organ trading

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Wednesday, August 27, 2008

Not ready yet?

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He Is ‘Ready to Be President,’ Bill Clinton Says ; “ Barack Obama is the man for this job ,” Mr. Clinton says. “ Barack Obama is ready to le...
Monday, August 25, 2008

Assorted Nudge

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Cass Sunstein: for the Homer Simpson in all of us (podcast) Sometimes, What’s Needed Is a Nudge Guiding Forces

Tuaregs of Niger

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Tuaregs

Assorted Podcasts

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Shakespeare Studies with Stanley Wells What do Greta Garbo, Madonna and Napoleon have in common? Why Glamour, Darling! Lipsky, Lanman Discus...
Saturday, August 23, 2008

Blog of the Day

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Alex Ross: The Rest Is Noise

City at the end of Time

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Go Fug Yourself

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Finding the "Ultimate Blogs": An interview with Sarah Boxer Blogs - a book review; We've Got Blog: How Weblogs Are Changing Ou...

Inside USA

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US Agriculture American Education

David Horowitz vs Hussein Ibish

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The Private Armies of Iraq

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The market value 100 billion dollars; Shadow Force: Private Security Contractors in Iraq by David Isenberg Private Sector, Public Wars: Cont...

The Award for protesters in China

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One in year jail for 79 year old illiterate lady- and electricity was also cut from her apartment . Meanwhile Chinese youth embrace Communis...

The first rule of politicians

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Politicians do what they do to stay in office or come to office From a debate in 2007, a clip shows Mr. Biden standing next to Mr. Obama. Ge...

The Strengths and Weaknesses of Ben Bernanke

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Ben Bernanke's Fed: The Federal Reserve After Greenspan

The Return of the Macroblog

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Macroblog

Advise to the Young Economist

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For those of you who have yet to encounter Gordon's scholarship, I urge you to purchase and to read, cover to cover, the 10 volume Sele...

Your China reading list

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The Globalist's Top Books on China
Wednesday, August 20, 2008

Photo of the Day- The Cult of Obama?

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Everything seems new to those too young to remember the old and too ignorant of history to have heard about it - Thomas Sowell

The Future of Pakistan

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CROSSED SWORD PAKISTAN : ITS ARMY AND WARS WITHIN by Shuja Nawaz

War on Drugs in Bolivia

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The field of telomere research

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the emergence of a new field of scientific research on the specialized ends of chromosomes and the telomerase enzyme that extends them.

Reading for the Day

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How Obama Reconciles Dueling Views on Economy

Gorbachev on Georgia-Russia war

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Russia did not want this crisis. The Russian leadership is in a strong enough position domestically; it did not need a little victorious war...

Kissinger on Kissinger and Nixon

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Former U.S. Secretary of State and Nobel Prize winner Dr. Henry Kissinger joined CEO Eric Schmidt for a fireside chat at Google's Mounta...
Tuesday, August 19, 2008

What would an Obama loss mean?

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Obama Pessimism with Glenn Loury and John McWhorter
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Link of the Day

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The Massacre Map ; On the night of June 3-4, 1989, troops of China’s People’s Liberation Army moved into Beijing to crush the pro-democracy ...

Islam in China

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Onethousandpaintings

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" One number, one painting - the number is the art is the limit is the price ." Onethousandpaintings.com

Trading on the female body

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handsoffourovaries Confessions of a Serial Egg Donor by Julia Derek

What the future holds for Osama bin Laden's Al Qaeda

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Shortly after 9/11, a Russian scientist named Dmitri Gusev proposed an explanation for the origin of the name Al Qaeda. He suggested that t...

Hope in Obama's father's land

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The War nobody cared about

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The battle for peace in Northern Uganda

Podcast of the Day

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Pitt Says Raising Capital for Fannie, Freddie Is `In Jeopardy' Harvey Pitt, former chairman of the U.S Securities and Exchange Commissi...

Ownership Congestion? Tragedy of Anticommons?

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A former World Banker ; Well, I’ve been finding ownership puzzles in a host of disparate places, like waiting around in airports and wonderi...
Monday, August 18, 2008

The End of Suburbia

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via 2blowhards

Who would you hire- an economist or a psychologist

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Charlie Rose asks some of the best macroeconomists; 'If in fact you just simply want to make a lot of money,.. would you rather have a ...

Lectures and Talks

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Reviving the Invisible Hand: the case for classical liberalism in the 21st century Principles and Practice of Global Economic Governance Pro...

The Price of Political Connections

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To illustrate our approach in action, let’s take a trip to Indonesia and turn the clock back to 1996. Former President Suharto, who by then...

Nigeria's child 'witches'

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Obanomics

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A conversation with Austan Goolsbee - Charlie Rose show

Podcasts

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John Taylor on Monetary Policy El-Erian Says Banks Face Harder Time Raising Capital El-Erian's latest book, ``When Markets Collide: Inve...
Sunday, August 17, 2008

Meet Terry O'Neill

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Terry O'Neill with Riz Khan