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Tuesday, August 21, 2007
The Mullahs and the Rock Star
Assorted on Salman Ahmed;
"In high school, I prayed to Allah for Yankees to win"
Junoon Official Website (biggest rock band in South Asia, sold over 25 million albums, the first rock band to be invited to perform at the U.N. General Assembly.)
Cadillac XT5 Years To Avoid
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The Cadillac XT5 has over the years symbolized the meaning of luxury and
stylishness. It is no doubt that elevation speaks volumes for the brand’s
devotion...
Seven novels about women chasing love abroad
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Juli Min is a Korean-American writer based in Shanghai. She holds an MFA in
fiction from Warren Wilson, and she studied Russian and comparative
literature ...
Friday Links
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ISPOR is next week…IRA is a hot topic. Spending on AI vs. the Manhattan
Project. Competition and dating apps. Coverage of UnitedHealth cyberattack
Good new...
How mindstorming supercharges innovation
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Looking for a better way to generate creative ideas and drive innovation?
Traditional brainstorming often encourages group thinking, where group
members ...
Machines and tools
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It’s International Workers Day, still celebrated as the May Day public
holiday here in Queensland, at least when the Labor party is in office. So,
it’s a g...
Machines and tools
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It’s International Workers Day, still celebrated as the May Day public
holiday here in Queensland, at least when the Labor party is in office. So,
it’s a g...
Should Frozen Russian Assets Fund Ukraine?
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The adversaries during more cordial times.
Unbeknownst to many, one of the linchpins of the post-WWII global
infrastructure is coming under sustained at...
The two notions of amenities in spatial economics
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Spatial economists use the word “amenity” in two imperfectly aligned ways.
The first refers to place-specific services that are not explicitly
transacted a...
Thatcherism is dead: Thatcherism lives
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Thatcherism is dead. It has ceased to be. It has expired and gone to meet
its maker. It has kicked the bucket, shuffled off this mortal coil and
joined the...
Some Links
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(Don Boudreaux) TweetWriting in the Wall Street Journal, NYU physicist
Steven Koonin reports on how the Biden White House inadvertently told the
truth abou...
Chromostereopsis
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The effect varies for different people. Take a moment and look at this.
Some people don’t see anything special: just a blue iris in a red eye. For
me thoug...
Do Higher Wages Mean Higher Standards of Living?
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Editor's note: We have updated macroblog's location on our website,
although archival posts will remain at their original location. Readers who
use RSS sho...
A new shop for parents who've done better
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It has been a while. Actually, I am not sure anyone reads this blog anymore
and even if they did how they might find out about a new post.
Anyhow, your eco...
The WSJ Law Blog: 2006-2017
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More than a decade ago, The Wall Street Journal launched Law Blog. It had a
simple name but a novel approach to legal coverage in the pre-Twitter era.
The ...
herbal untuk jantung dan darah tinggi yang ampuh
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Apakah Anda tahu bahwa madu mampu memberikan M segala macam manfaat bagi kesehatan
manusia? Madu diakui mengingat bahwa zaman kuno sebagai obat, dan penggun...
Why model?
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The first question that arises frequently--sometimes innocently and
sometimes not--is simply, "Why model?" Imagining a rhetorical
(non-innocent) inquisi...
Good Text Book on Public Policy
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Section I: What Is Public Policy? Chapter 1: Public Decision Making
Chapter 2: Why Is It So Hard to Make the World a Better Place?
Section ...
The end …
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This is the end of our broadcast day here at Murketing.com. Thanks for
having tuned in! Please head over to RobWalker.net for more on whatever I’m
up to no...
this site is moving
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After more than eight years at this address and more than more than seven
years blogging with the same old version of MovableType software, I am
shifting o...
An Announcement
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Michael Blowhard writes: Dear Friends -- You imagine it can't happen to
you, and then it does. Here's why 2Blowhards disappeared: Our webhost,
who'd given ...
Armenian genetics
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Armenian genes: Scientist in Yerevan launches a project to reveal genetic
history of the nation. The description of the science in the piece is *very*
garb...
New site
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I have a new site at *WordPress*:
http://www.harryrclarke.com/
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It is goodbye *Blogger* for at least a whil...
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