Tuesday, March 24, 2009

The Man who Produced THE SILENCE OF THE LAMBS

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Sunday, March 15, 2009

Creative Defense Contractors

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Photo of the Day- Timothy Geithner

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via Indecision
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Monday, March 9, 2009

The Epic Story of Dutch Manhattan

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The Island at the Center of the World: The Epic Story of Dutch Manhattan and the Forgotten Colony that Shaped America Russell Shorto interv...
Sunday, March 8, 2009

Parenting skills of Mankiw

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Mankiw's favorite children's books ; Miss Rumphius By Barbara Cooney Cactus Hotel By Brenda Z. Guiberson Frindle By Andrew Clements ...
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Cool Blogs and other links

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Joshspear Zoomdoggle Tasks Every Day Wants for Sale Urlesque Bore Me
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One more reason why you should blog

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From Seth Godin ; The best measure of a blog is not how many people it reaches, it’s how much it changes what you do. Changes your posture, ...

Not the time to be thinking of doing a PhD

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Andrew Delbanco , the chairman of the American studies program at Columbia University, said that the system producing graduate students was ...

The Brothers Karzai

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The older brother of Hamid Karzai, the Afghan president, Mahmoud Karzai has major interests in the country’s only cement factory, its domina...
Saturday, March 7, 2009

Science Podcast of the Day

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THE MEASUREMENT PROBLEM IN PHYSICS ; The most famous fruit in physics is an apple, but the most famous animal in physics is a cat. It belong...
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Young Americans and Britons take the lead

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in cocaine-use !
Friday, March 6, 2009

Pornography Fact of the Day

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subscriptions to online pornography sites are “more prevalent in states where surveys indicate conservative positions on religion, gender ro...

A fisherman turned banker, now back to Fishing

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Lean and hungry-looking, wearing genuine rather than designer stubble, Alfsson still looks more like a trawler captain than a financier. He ...

A unique way to catch Tuna

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Catching tuna Maldivian style
Sunday, March 1, 2009

Tech Headline for the Day

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iFart And Pull My Finger Battle To Stink Up The App Store. Please Keep These Under Control, Apple.

The rapture of the geeks?

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Truly said, ' Death makes strange even the most rational of minds '; Using technology, he plans to bring his dead father back to lif...

New Rules for the Sub-prime Age- Bill Maher

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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