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Angry Bear
(0) | | Brad DeLong does in less than a weekend. He is as enchanted as Robert was*:My personal favorite is a giant parasol 18,000 miles in diameter at L1 to absorb and then reradiate a chunk of sunlight in... | |
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Angry Bear
(0) | | Two Views of The Late Great Johnny Ace:69 Years after his birth, my eldest daughter's favorite band is The Beatles (slightly ahead of the JoBros). The main reason, apparently, is this film. (I'm... | |
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Angry Bear
(0) | | I recently mentioned D-Squared's four-part review (evisceration?) of Freakonomics.I had forgotten he wasn't finished.Part Five is now posted. And the conceit of the pieces—"that there is... | |
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Angry Bear
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Norman Borlaug, Michael Jackson, and the Invisible Hand
When Adam Smith described the concept of laissez-faire capitalism, he argued that it was not just efficient but moral. As long... | |
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Grand Text Auto
(0) | | The ironic debacle this week – Amazon.com confiscating the mistakenly sold electronic books by none other than George Orwell from user’s Kindle machines across the country — stokes... | |
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Grand Text Auto
(0) | | In his 2009 speech at Dartmouth, Jesper Juul argued that the list of games people choose to play is itself a form of self-expression. His “video game literacy” really does exist. People read,... | |
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Grand Text Auto
(0) | | Games are a global medium, and to theorists such as Lisa Nakamura at the Games, Learning, and Society Conference 2009, one cannot separate the construction of digital games into particular cultures... | |
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Balloon Juice
(2) | | Something tells me that the Beijing Olympics won’t see any world records in the marathon.As a biomedical researcher I will make this small prediction: several years from now statisticians... | |
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Balloon Juice
(2) | | At one point a long time ago, traveling by plane was an expensive choice that most ordinary people didn’t have the means to try. Then the infrastructure matured, fuel was relatively cheap and... | |
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Balloon Juice
(2) | | Tony Snow has died at the age of 53.You know the drill, if you can’t say anything nice, don’t say anything at all.Fifty-three is just way too damned young, especially for a man with... | |
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