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Techdirt
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How Much Harm Do Bad Patents Do To The Economy?

We've been discussing how patents can have a serious economic downside (as was recognized by Thomas Jefferson and James Madison as they designed the patent system). It appears that some researchers...

Started in Techdirt • 8 months ago • 0 responses

The Frontal Cortex
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Happiness and Children

Ronald Bailey looks at the data and concludes that having children doesn't make us happy:"Economists have modeled the impact of many variables on people's overall happiness and have consistently...

Started in The Frontal Cortex • 8 months ago • 0 responses

Pure Pedantry
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More on Demography and Having Fewer Children

It has been a big month for talking about the demographic transition here at Pure Pedantry. (See here and here.) Ronald Bailey at Reason had this interesting article speculating why people choose...

Started in Pure Pedantry • 8 months ago • 0 responses
Tags: psychology

Angry Bear
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Free trade, Republican's no like (along with others)

From a poll by the WSJ/NBC reported in October, 2007 comes:While 60% of respondents said they want the next president and Congress to continue cutting taxes, 32% said it's time for some tax increases...

Started in Angry Bear • 8 months ago • 0 responses
Tags: republican, trade, free trade, economy

Joystiq
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GDC08: Gameloft's Guillemot discusses mobile industry hang-ups

Filed under: GDC, Mobile In the opening keynote of the Game Developers Conference mobile component (being the section dedicated to gaming on cell phones, not some wheeled stage rolling down the...

Started in Joystiq • 8 months ago • 0 responses
Tags: gameloft, gdc-08, gdc-mobile, guillemot, iphone

CHINESE MEDICINE NEWS
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Stress hormone impacts memory, learning in diabetics

NIH release - Diabetes is known to impair the cognitive health of people, but now scientists have identified one potential mechanism underlying these learning and memory problems. A new National...

Started in CHINESE MEDICINE NEWS • 8 months ago • 0 responses
Tags: diabetes, stress, stress hormone, hormone

The World's Fair
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Academic eco-footprints are too large (and even folks who study biodiversity are guilty of this)

Just noticed an article in our local newspaper today that highlighted the irony of sustainability researchers inadvertently having a larger than average eco-footprint. This makes logical sense...

Started in The World's Fair • 9 months ago • 0 responses
Tags: nature as in earth, as in global, as in global issues generally

Chinese in Vancouver
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Soft landing expected for housing markets: CMHC

(caption: Vancouver's real estate prices are expected to climb about 6-7% this year. Buyers continue to welcome new constructions. CIV Photo)However, as most resale markets move toward more balanced...

Started in Chinese in Vancouver • 9 months ago • 0 responses
Tags: real estate, house prices, vancouver

American Thinker
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The Elephant In the Immigration Room

The ignored elephant in the immigration debate is the negative impact of illegal immigration on job opportunities for unskilled, uneducated, native-born U.S. workers

Started in American Thinker • 9 months ago • 0 responses
Tags: lee cary

Prostate Cancer
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Sex After Prostate Cancer

If ever you need a good reason to get a prostate cancer screening this is it. SEX, for many men, seems to define who we are as people. So the question about the possibility of having sex after being...

Started in Prostate Cancer • 9 months ago • 0 responses
Tags: prostate-cancer