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Alan Lomax: Recording The World (npr.org)
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Innovation in Britain's newspapers(economist.com)
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Tanks in the cloud - measuring web infrastructure(economist.com)
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Why do firms exist?(economist.com)
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As Hiring Falters, More Workers Become Temporary(nytimes.com)
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Can Airports Be Fun?(opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com)
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Reminds me of a Frank Herbert story called "Committee of the Whole". It concerns an engineer who makes public the plans and method to build a super-weapon from everyday household materials - and this makes government oppression a thing of t
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Airports consider congressman's call to ditch TSA (news.yahoo.com)
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The Workout Enigma(well.blogs.nytimes.com)
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Mick Jagger responds to Keith Richards: a short history of the Rolling Stones(slate.com)
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Middle management has its uses.(slate.com)
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Why do Americans resent upward mobility? (slate.com)
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Why art books won't become e-books any time soon(slate.com)
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The fundamental fallacy here is that people respond purely to monetary incentives for work. This may be true for Mr. Mankiw, but it is not a universal truth.
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Cisco Rolls Out Umi Home Video Conferencing System(bits.blogs.nytimes.com)
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The best coffee in the South Bay is at Barefoot in Santa Clara.
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I'm curious what the mechanism is, though. From the perspective of a complete layperson - does this mean that the genome is modified based on acquired characteristics? Or are there other mechanism to carry the signal?
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Rotifers may reveal the secret of elongating life (economist.com)
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Social networks: Facebook and freedom around the world(economist.com)
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Why did Columbia's Campus Network lose out to Harvard's Facebook?(slate.com)
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The All-Girl Robotics Team from the Bronx(theatlantic.com)
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A Conference Makes Learning Free - TEDx(nytimes.com)
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Why Is Washington Ignoring the Freelance Economy?(theatlantic.com)
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The disappearance of salesmen explains America's economic woes(slate.com)
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Dylan Thomas said it best: "Grave men, near death, who see with blinding sight Blind eyes could blaze like meteors and be gay, Rage, rage against the dying of the light. And you, my father, there on the sad height, Curse, bless me now with
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In low-ball America, employers and shoppers pay less, and everyone suffers. (slate.com)
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Galloping inflation in higher education fees(economist.com)
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Good article. One bone to pick though - Orwell's criticism was in the context of writing, whereas the article quotes Churchill's speeches. Good oratory has a great component of theater and drama.
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The innovation machine - implementing new ideas(economist.com)
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This NPR recording with Murray Perahia further explores the connection between Bach and Chopin: http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=1251806...

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