Wednesday, December 30, 2009

One Author to read 2010- Orhan Pamuk

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Pamuk’s appeal has not been lost on politicians. Daniel Cohn-Bendit has credited Pamuk with helping him to ‘understand the importance of Tur...

David Brooks favorite blogs

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Fortunately there are a few Web sites that provide daily links to the best that is thought and said. Arts and Letters Daily is the center o...
Tuesday, December 29, 2009

Eat, Pray Love

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Elizabeth Gilbert at Google
Monday, December 28, 2009

When things go wrong in project managment!

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I'm starting to become a big fan of Scott Berkun ; 1. Calm down . Nothing makes a situation worse than basing your actions on fear, ange...
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Assorted Cool blogs

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DesignBoom Typefiend
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Confessions of a Public Speaker- recommended by Tyler Cowen

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Tyler Cowen recommends: Scott Berkun , Confessions of a Public Speaker . If you get only one good tip from this book, it's worth it.
Sunday, December 27, 2009

Using Obituaries in Teaching- The Rain Man is dead!

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Kim Peek possesses one of the most extraordinary memories ever recorded. Until we can explain his abilities, we cannot pretend to understand...
Saturday, December 26, 2009

Invisible Hand for Energy Supply and Demand (for the body)

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Dr. Edwin G. Krebs , who shared a Nobel Prize in 1992 for discovering a crucial bodily process that helps govern the movement of muscles, th...
Thursday, December 24, 2009

You can’t build a country if you’re not thinking beyond your own lifetime

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Mr. Ali is an institution in Pakistan. He has started some of the country’s most successful companies. But perhaps his most important contri...
Monday, December 21, 2009

BH Economics Blog Awards 2009

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Best Overall Economics - ( If you had to pick one Economics Blog what would it be? ) Econlog Best Econ Literacy Mankiw Twenty Cent Paradigms...
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Friday, December 18, 2009

Bernanke- young and happy

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Source
Monday, December 7, 2009

Artist of the Day

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William Powhida His blog
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Sunday, November 22, 2009

Think about for the Day

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In the United States today, democracy means that most people have essentially zero political power, and a relative handful of people have al...
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Ancient Wisdom and Modern Solutions

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Ancient Wisdom and Modern Solutions
Sunday, November 15, 2009

Book Cover Art of the Day

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Not A Chimp: The Hunt For The Genes That Make Us Human
Friday, November 13, 2009

Charter for Compassion

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Charter for Compassion
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Thursday, November 12, 2009

Elinor Ostrum in South Asia

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In the south Asian context, the key contribution by Elinor Ostrom , along with other scholars (Shivakoti and Ostrom 2002) has been to provid...
Sunday, November 8, 2009

Back to Nature

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via Flick
Wednesday, November 4, 2009

Lévi-Strauss is dead

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A powerful thinker, Mr. Lévi-Strauss, in studying the mythologies of primitive tribes, transformed the way the 20th century came to understa...
Saturday, October 31, 2009

Dickensian China

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Source More here
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Wednesday, October 28, 2009

Parenting advice for the day

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the Walt Disney Company is now offering refunds for all those “ Baby Einstein ” videos that did not make children into geniuses... “My impre...
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Memo to Self- Exercise gluteus maximus

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“Ancient humans exploited the fact that humans are good runners in the heat,” Dr. Bramble said. “We have such a great cooling system” — man...
Saturday, September 19, 2009

Weekend reading

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Carl Jung and The Holy Grail of the Unconscious ; Some people feel that nobody should read the book, and some feel that everybody should rea...
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What will it take in the Middle East

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A settler tosses wine at a Palestinian woman on Shuhada Street in Hebron
Saturday, July 11, 2009

Assorted on Parenting

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Reader Suggestions for the Best Kids’ Books The Greatest Gift Starfall
Friday, July 10, 2009

You've the right to remain ------

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The Urumqi government said Friday that families of "innocent" people killed in the unrest will receive about $29,300 in compensa...
Friday, July 3, 2009

They Don’t Really Care About Us- The final rehearsal

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Visit msnbc.com for Breaking News , World News , and News about the Economy The Life and Death of Micheal Jackson
Monday, June 22, 2009

Democracy Dreaming

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Source: NYT
Saturday, June 6, 2009

Sex in the city, Saudi version

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In Saudi Arabia and other countries where the genders are rigorously separated, many men have their first sexual experiences with other men,...
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Friday, May 22, 2009

Photo of the Day - Caddo Lake

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A Passage Into the Primeval on a Bayou Lake in East Texas
Monday, May 11, 2009

Blog of the Day

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Aquanomics
Sunday, May 3, 2009

Parenting sites for the Day

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Go Ask Alice! TeenHealthFX.com
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Friday, May 1, 2009

Bees Fact of the Day

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In effect the honeybee has a daily diary that can include as many as nine appointments — say, 10:00 a.m., lilac; 11:30 a.m., peonies; and so...
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Friday, April 24, 2009

Blog of the Day

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Think Geek

A credit worthy face?

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Women, for instance, judge men by their face s. Testosterone levels are reflected in the face, and who is seen as a one-night stand and who ...
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Japanese clean Paris

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Japan syndrome ” hits about 10 Japanese tourists to Paris a year. The victims are so disappointed at the dirty streets and rude waiters that...

Costs and Benefits of Friends

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A 10-year Australian study found that older people with a large circle of friends were 22 percent less likely to die during the study period...
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Understanding and debating Islam

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One of the scholars at the Notre Dame conference whom I particularly admire is Nasr Hamid Abu Zayd, an Egyptian Muslim who argues eloquentl...
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Saturday, April 18, 2009

Photo of the Day

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Third-World Stove Soot Is Target in Climate Fight
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Sunday, April 12, 2009

The great career experiment

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“ In choosing careers, young people look for signals from society, and Wall Street will no longer pull the talent that it did for so many ye...
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An Urban Love Story

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As she entered the train, she noticed a man standing and reading “ History of Philosophy, Volume IX .” That impressed her. “ I infer that pe...
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Friday, April 3, 2009

Hope!

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After reciting the Oath of Allegiance, 144 people became American citizens during a special naturalization ceremony in Washington. The open...

Co-founder of Twitter Biz Stone

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The Colbert Report Mon - Thurs 11:30pm / 10:30c Biz Stone comedycentral.com Colbert Report Full Episodes Political Humor NASA Name Contest T...

G-20 and John Nash

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Essential task for G20 leaders is a cinema trip to see 'A Beautiful Mind' by Mohamed A El-Erian and Mike Spence; The US is in the g...
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Thursday, April 2, 2009

Seeking your advice: Which Economics Department do you recommed?

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Maryland , NYU Economics or GMU Economics ?
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Happy Marriage fact of the Day

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a marriage is worth almost £80,000 ($110,000) a year ; this reflects partly the fact that marriage makes people happy, but also the fact tha...
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Is World Bank a pyramid scheme?

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The Colbert Report Mon - Thurs 11:30pm / 10:30c Dambisa Moyo comedycentral.com Colbert Report Full Episodes Political Humor NASA Name Contes...
Tuesday, March 31, 2009

Assorted

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The Biggest of Puzzles Brought Down to Size Skype, the Web Phone Giant, Brings Cheap Calls to Cellular Google to Announce Venture Fund The C...
Monday, March 30, 2009

A bit of a background on the music industry

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British-Asian singer-songwriter, Jay Sean .
Sunday, March 29, 2009

Freeman Dyson profile

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Among Dyson’s gifts is interpretive clarity, a penetrating ability to grasp the method and significance of what many kinds of scientists do...