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“a safe, cheerful, comfortable place to live, a decent education, and a few good times? You mean shame about not knowing where the Money River is?”

“In his 2007 book The Myth of the Rational Voter, economist Bryan Caplan proposes an interesting thought experiment which suggests that people implicitly accept the results of competitive markets. Caplan asks if those who criticize companies that pay low wages source...

“Jo Glanville was appointed editor of Index on Censorship in December 2006. Her first issue "What New Labour did for free speech" appeared in May 2007. She was previously a current affairs producer at the BBC for eight years. She source...

“ The Birdbooker Report is a special weekly report of a wide variety of science, nature and behavior books that currently are, or soon will be available for purchase. This report is written by one of my Seattle birding pals source...

“The Stupids are back. You remember that fictional family who appear in series of books portrayed as incompetent to the point of confusing the most simple concepts and tasks The books were themselves denounced as irresponsible and inspired films which source...

“ Daemon by Daniel Suarez (former pen name Leinad Zeraus) is not only a self-publishing success story but also a work that has been endorsed by hackers the world over. Read the EH-Net review and the first four chapters in their entirety. source...

“The following is a highly edited version of a comment thread found on the blog Gene Expression.  The thread discusses the role of empricism verus deduction in the social sciences.  The star commenter PhysicistDave actually studied under Feynman, which gives source...

“The last thing that Dan Lyons (Newsweek columnist and author of Options: The Secret Life of Steve Jobs) wrote as Fake Steve Jobs is Reality Check’s foreword. It is, in my opinion, the best foreword in the history of man.”

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“ Sherriff's job could not be further from this description. A sprightly young woman without a bun in sight, her role is to engage young people aged 11 to 18 in library services. Among the activities she undertakes to achieve source...

“Hernando de Soto is President of the Institute for Liberty and Democracy, headquartered in Lima, Peru and considered by The Economist to be one of the two most important think tanks in the world. Time and Forbes have chosen him source...

“Some of the coolest photographs I've seen recently are these long exposure shots of crowds in St. Petersburg, Russia. They were taken by Alexey Titarenko for a project called "City of Shadows."”

“I recently purchased a short story from Fictionwise, which was not DRM’ed, so I could easily get it into a form where I could read it on my Sony eReader. Thanks to that short story, I was introduced to an source...

“Those tickers are now hotlinked to stocktwits. This gets me excited. Because someone could do so much more with this idea. We have a few companies that are trying to extract meaning out of content on the web. Adaptive Blue source...