Friday, February 27, 2009

More Game Theory from Middle East

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In early summer 1995, a few months before his assassination, prime minister Yitzhak Rabin asked Jordan's King Hussein to approach Iraqi ...
Thursday, February 26, 2009

Is it religion or culture?

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A 14-year-old Israeli girl has got a divorce from her 17-year-old husband, making her what media are describing as the country's younges...

The Dark Geography of the Pentagon's Secret World

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Blank Spots on the Map: The Dark Geography of the Pentagon's Secret World.

Another former dictator's Art collection

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After Ceausescu visited Pyongyang in North Korea, he decided to rebuild his own capital city. The result was to wipe out much of historic Bu...

Economic Gangsters from Paradise

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The lavish lifestyle of the former head of the tiny island nation of Maldives ; Gold Plated Toilets Over 8 million dollars! Private island r...
Sunday, February 22, 2009

John Kay's ‘long walk’ problems

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For years, I have identified what I think of as ‘long walk’ problems - knotty issues that are best tackled if you can get away from it all....
Saturday, February 21, 2009

Steven Pinker with Colbert

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The Colbert Report Mon - Thurs 11:30pm / 10:30c Steven Pinker Colbert Report Full Episodes Funny Political News Christian Bale Parody Joke o...
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Thursday, February 19, 2009

Artist of the Day

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Enough About Me. Like My Portrait? ; Donald Bachardy , the Santa Monica portraitist who is known for his drawings and paintings of celebriti...
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Saturday, February 14, 2009

Advice of the Day- Turkey's jewish business tycoon

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ISHAK ALATON , a prominent member of Turkey’s tiny Jewish community, has a secret to living more intensely: He built his house next to a ce...
Wednesday, February 4, 2009

Ethics for the Real World from Engineers

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Ethics for the Real World: Creating a Personal Code to Guide Decisions in Work and Life Ronald A. Howard is a professor in the Department o...
Monday, January 26, 2009

Using IT to create a post-bureaucratic organization

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Bringing Change in Government Organizations: Evolution Towards Post-Bureaucracy with Web-Based IT Projects ; This paper examines the followi...
Sunday, January 25, 2009

Did you Know

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Two UN agencies have declared 2009 as; Year of the Gorilla International Year of Natural Fibres

Cool link for the Day

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Crib Candy

Obamania

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Assorted at N euroanthropology Obama - Professor President Obama’s Foursquare Politics, With a Dab of Dijon ; But while Mr. Obama occasional...
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For Debate

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Corseting female sexuality The whole article is pitched to support that old tired cliché of sexuality that 'women are complicated, men ...

Book recommendation

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Anticipating Correlations: A New Paradigm for Risk Management Robert Engle
Saturday, January 24, 2009

Media Trust improves Health

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Individuals with high levels of trust in the mass media tend to be healthier, according to a new study of people from 29 Asian countries.......

From Crotch Crescent to Penistone

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In the scale of embarrassing place names, Crapstone ranks pretty high. But Britain is full of them. Some are mostly amusing, like Ugley, Es...

Assorted

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What Do Women Want? ; “I feel like a pioneer at the edge of a giant forest,” Chivers said, describing her ambition to understand the working...

Announcement

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Carnival of Podcasts is up.

An overdose of Obama merchandise

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We can truly understand the feeling; Am I the only person who finds the glut of Obama merchandise, well, gross? It has moved from memorializ...
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Wednesday, January 21, 2009

Economist Sightings in the Inauguration

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via NYT
Tuesday, January 20, 2009

Blog of the Day

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The White House Blog
Monday, January 19, 2009

Assorted

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Letter from Birmingham Jail The Origin of Singaporean Crime Policy How Much Should Judges Make? Chief Justice Roberts, in his report on the ...

Forgive and Forget?

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Keith Olbermann's tribute to Bush

Bethany McLean on Daily Show

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The Daily Show With Jon Stewart M - Th 11p / 10c Bethany McLean Barack Obama Interview John McCain Interview Sarah Palin Video Funny Electio...

What I'm reading

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Outliers , by Malcolm Gladwell Kenneth Rogoff Interview , The Region Making Great Decisions in Business and Life , David R. Henderson
Sunday, January 18, 2009

A Nudge towards good behavior?

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And How Do I Know You? Oh, the List

Gaza doctor's tragedy caught on Israeli TV

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Saturday, January 17, 2009

Matt Taibbi takes on Thomas Friedman

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In The World is Flat, the key action scene of the book comes when Friedman experiences his pseudo-epiphany about the Flat world while talkin...

What's her fault?

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Being a Palestinian?
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Art Therapy for Terrorism

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From Jihad to Rehab ; In the first episode of Focal Point, From Jihad to Rehab , Canadian journalist Nancy Durham takes us inside a rehabili...

How to Negotiate with the Chinese

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Cultural Notes on Chinese Negotiating Behavior
Friday, January 16, 2009

Photo Caption Contest

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Israelis from Kibbutz, near the Gaza border, watched shelling in the distance

The Outliers

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THE ART INSTINCT

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THE ART INSTINCT-Beauty, Pleasure, and Human Evolution By Denis Dutton Denis Dutton is the founder and editor of the hugely popular Web site...
Wednesday, January 14, 2009

What it takes for a girl to go to school in Afghanistan

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One morning two months ago, Shamsia Husseini and her sister were walking through the muddy streets to the local girls school when a man pull...
Monday, January 12, 2009

War Crimes!

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Sunday, January 11, 2009

How to be Happy with Dan Gilbert

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American Lion: Andrew Jackson in the White House

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American Lion: Andrew Jackson in the White House
Saturday, January 10, 2009

Before you go to the Doctor

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Assorted on In Search of a Good Doctor ; familydoctor.org Health Calculators Foundation for Informed Medical Decision Making Cardiac Risk Ca...

Religion promotes self-control

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“We simply asked if there was good evidence that people who are more religious have more self-control,” Dr. McCullough. “For a long time it ...
Thursday, January 8, 2009

Photo caption contest

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Israelis watched smoke rise above the northern Gaza Strip
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New Year in KL

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Police warned that the "no-underwear" event for under-40s, advertised through a website that asked for 250 ringgit ($A100) as an e...
Wednesday, January 7, 2009

Fact or Fiction

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One developmental psychologist even admitted, one year ago on this very website, that researchers hadn't yet found proof that "pare...
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BH Economics Blog Awards 2009

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Bayesian Heresy Economics Blog Awards 2009

A good parenting tip?

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We should bring up our children with more emphasis on self-control and less on self-esteem . via New Year's Resolution: Get Happy

Three New Blogs

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Three new blogs have been added to our group of blogs; MTEF Tracking the Economy The Blog University
Monday, December 8, 2008

Announcing a Bail-Out and a Merger

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From January 1st 2009, The Bayesian Heresy and MTEF blog will merge.
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Monday, December 1, 2008

Special Announcement

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MJ will be blogging on MTEF
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