Martin Wolf Gets It – NYTimes.com – Paul Krugman “Mr Obama wishes to be president of a country that does not exist. In his fantasy US, politicians bury differences in bipartisan harmony. In fact, he faces an opposition that would prefer their country to fail than their president to succeed.” …this was what worried me [...]
Welfare Rates Almost Unchanged During Recession – Miller-McCune Germany Crafts Its Nuclear Power Exit Strategy – Miller-McCune Bad Teachers Improving With Help From Peers – Miller-McCune President Barack Obama has endorsed peer review as a way to help struggling teachers, and so has the American Federation of Teachers, but nationally, such programs are few and [...]
No Impact Week: Learning to Grow Compassionate Children Since completing the No Impact Week experiment in January, we’ve certainly become more mindful of our habits and their impact on our world. But even better, we’ve started living more creatively—with more joy. We move more slowly, and for a family living in a 21st-century city, this [...]
Gold or Water? A Deadly Debate | YES! magazine • by John Cavanagh To protect their water supply, Salvadorans are trying to ban corporate gold mining—and facing threats and violence as a result. New report urges the government to invest in farmers markets | Nourishing the Planet Does The Internet Stifle Revolutions? — Media Access [...]
Happy Birthday, John Locke: The Essential Locke in 3 Minutes | Brain Pickings • by Maria Popova > video philosophy 8,000-year-old stone shelter found in Colorado A small prehistoric stone shelter which dates back 8,000 years has been found in Colorado. > archaeology Ancient Egyptians used hair gel An analysis of an Egyptian mummies hair shows that a [...]
BBC News – Call for action on homes ‘crisis’ BBC News – Los Angeles learns to love its river BBC News – Obama nominates Alan Krueger as his new chief economist BBC News – Irene: Death toll nears 40 as recovery begins BBC News – New Nepal PM Baburam Bhattarai pledges to secure peace BBC [...]
Did Wis. Justice Put Colleague in Chokehold? Prosser Admits Reflexive Neck Touching | ABA Journal Daily News Wisconsin Supreme Court Justice David Prosser has admitted he touched the neck of a colleague who accused him of putting her in a chokehold, but said it was a reflexive reaction. Prosser’s admission was among statements by the [...]
A Wishlist for this Fall’s Doctor Who Episodes Doctor Who comes back for a run of six episodes starting this weekend, and our hopes are high. If nothing else, we know there will be witty dialogue, insanely cute actors, and mind-bending plots. But we’re hoping for more than that. Because these six episodes aren’t just [...]
Newsflash: It’s not over in Libya | The Plum Line • by Adam Serwer It’s not as though the Iraq war was over after Saddam Hussein was defeated — years of violence and terrorism followed. Indeed that’s been the fate of all American executed or backed military interventions over the past decade, not just Iraq [...]
Extended households, extended version | Family Inequality • by Philip Cohen There is little doubt now that household structure has changed in response to the financial crisis and recession, partly because of its overall severity and partly because of its concentration in housing and real estate. There is general evidence of doubling up, as well [...]
Decision making changes with age — and age helps! At last, a reason why stress causes DNA damage Radical overhaul of farming could be ‘game-changer’ for global food security According to the authors of new research released today at the World Water Week in Stockholm, a radical transformation in the way farming and natural systems [...]
Straight Talk about Vaccination | Scientific American Last year 10 children died in California in the worst whooping cough outbreak to sweep the state since 1947. In the first six months of 2011, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention recorded 10 measles outbreaks–the largest of which (21 cases) occurred in a Minnesota county, where [...]
The evanescence of pseudonymous online identity | Futurismic • by Paul Raven Charlie Stross… joins the…chorus of people trying to make Google aware of just how dickish they’re being with this whole pseudonyms business… [his post is] worth reading for the borrowed list of programmer assumptions about human names alone, though it’s all good stuff. [...]
Bountiful Books: 13 Incredibly Intricate Historic Libraries | WebUrbanist • by Steph Dark wood, dazzling details, leaded glass windows and tier after towering tier of books – classic historic libraries are a bibliophile’s dream. These 13 (more) libraries, dating from the 18th to the early 20th centuries, represent some of the most astonishingly beautiful book [...]
What Rupert Murdoch Means For You Personally « SpeakEasy Miiu.org – The Resilient Community Wiki MiiU is a collection of all the resources and places that make personal, family, and community resilience possible. Resilience isn’t only about surviving global failures, it’s about building a better life for you and everyone around you. Centropa Jewish Witness [...]
Maine Couple On Trial For Redeeming Deposits For Bottles From New Hampshire | The Consumerist • by Chris Morran The investigation led authorities to the redemption center, which prosecutors allege illegally redeemed out-of-state recyclables for two years, effectively stealing $10,000 from the state. In addition to the New Hampshire sports complex, a former employee at [...]
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Posted 19 August 2011
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Fair is fair: Kindergarten and the American Dream | Alas, a blog • by Grace Annam reap what you sow. Hard work earns success. Rags to Riches. Horatio Alger. We cherish this belief so strongly that it has a Title in Capital Letters : The American Dream. To an extent, all of this is true. [...]
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Posted 18 August 2011
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Local Blogger Swears Off Mirrors for a Year – Culture Feed – The Bay Citizen Gruys has been blogging about the experiment and it’s finding an audience … She let her readers decide via vote whether she gets to look at her wedding photos. They said she could. “I don’t know if I will,” she [...]
Public Lab Helps Communities Do ‘Civic Science’ Investigations | MediaShift Idea Lab • by shannon The Public Laboratory for Open Technology and Science (PLOTS) is a community which develops and applies open-source tools to environmental exploration and investigation. Resonating with Public Laboratory’s vision of community engagement and leadership, a little over a year ago — [...]
jointure: Dictionary.com Word of the Day jointure: property given to a woman upon marriage, to be owned by her after her husband’s death. > patriarchy Gabon | About.com African History Gabon, the last of the four territories which had formed French Equatorial Africa, achieved independence on 17 August 1960 with Gabriel Léon M’Ba as president. [...]
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Posted 17 August 2011
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