February 2012
6 posts
“In the past decade, scientists have come to realize that our memories are not...”
– The Forgetting Pill Erases Painful Memories Forever | Wired Magazine | Wired.com
The New Haven Experiment - NYTimes.com →
The breakthrough experiment in New Haven offers a glimpse of an education future that is less rancorous. It’s a tribute to the savvy of Randi Weingarten, the president of the American Federation of Teachers and as shrewd a union leader as any I’ve seen. She realized that the unions were alienating their allies, and she is trying to change the narrative. New Haven may be home to Yale University,...
How Your Cat Is Making You Crazy - Magazine - The... →
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Morning Routines Are Creativity Killers →
kateoplis:
As several recent studies highlight, the way most of us spend our mornings is exactly counter to the conditions that neuroscientists and cognitive psychologists tell us promote flexible, open-minded thinking. Take that hurried wake-up, for example. In a study published in the journal Thinking and Reasoning last year, researchers Mareike Wieth and Rose Zacks reported that imaginative...
January 2012
8 posts
“The people who want to protect “intellectual property” from all...”
– Stop Sopa or the web really will go dark | Dan Gillmor | Comment is free | guardian.co.uk
“Censorship is the tool of those who have the need to hide actualities from...”
– Congress Should Use the Internet - Room for Debate - NYTimes.com
“Mashable’s Chief Architect, Chris Heald , dissected the SOPA bill section...”
– Why SOPA Is Dangerous
“Here are some of the highlights from the growing chorus of opposition – in...”
– Growing Chorus of Opposition to “Stop Online Piracy Act” | Center for Democracy & Technology
“Despite its strengths—hefty investment in research, a rigorous approach to...”
– Technological change: The last Kodak moment? | The Economist
“Iceland did what the United States chose not to do — allow its biggest banks to...”
– Iceland makes fledgling recovery from its economic meltdown - The Washington Post
“There has never been a mass market for good journalism in this country. What...”
– Newspapers, Paywalls, and Core Users « Clay Shirky
December 2011
5 posts
“researchers discovered money is indeed a major factor in day-to-day happiness....”
– The Overjustification Effect « You Are Not So Smart
Lessig gave a 45 minute talk at Google recently on... →
Выборы в Госдуму: В России обнаружилось "ничейное"... →
November 2011
5 posts
Estée Lauder Heir’s Tax Strategies Typify... →
kateoplis: “Whenever growing income disparities... →
kateoplis:
“Whenever growing income disparities threaten to come into focus, a reliable set of defenders tries to bring back the blur. Think tanks put out reports claiming that inequality isn’t really rising, or that it doesn’t matter. Pundits try to put a more benign face on the phenomenon, claiming that…
“U.S. banks increased sales of insurance against credit losses to holders of...”
– Selling More CDS on Europe Debt Raises Risk for U.S. Banks - Bloomberg
How American Banks Are Engineering the Next... →
“Over and over, the Buddha taught that what causes suffering is holding on to...”
– Remaining human: A Buddhist perspective on Occupy Wall Street | Matador Network
October 2011
10 posts
Wall Street Isn't Winning It's Cheating | Matt... →
And we hate the rich? Come on. Success is the national religion, and almost everyone is a believer. Americans love winners. But that’s just the problem. These guys on Wall Street are not winning – they’re cheating. And as much as we love the self-made success story, we hate the cheater that much more.
“Capitalism is so successful an economic system partly because of an internal...”
– Crony Capitalism Comes Home - NYTimes.com
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“Want to know what global warming has in store for us? Just go to Australia,...”
– Climate Change and the End of Australia | Politics News | Rolling Stone
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BofA Said to Split Regulators Over Moving Merrill... →
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Cost of Tax Cuts | costoftaxcuts.com →
from Facebook - Nicholas D. Kristof
As we debate tax policy, this is a nifty website that shows the running cost to Treasury of the Bush tax cuts on, say, the wealthiest 1 percent of taxpayers:http://t.co/2l4V1Kf6 A trillion here, a trillion there, soon you’re talking about real money. I rather think we should just go back to the Clinton tax rates of the 1990’s — when the budget...
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Here Are Four Charts That Explain What The... →
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“…trading derivatives and other securities really had nothing to do with...”
– - Robert G. Wilmers, CEO of M&T Bank | The Good Banker - NYTimes.com
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What if the Secret to Success Is Failure? -... →
It is a central paradox of contemporary parenting, in fact: we have an acute, almost biological impulse to provide for our children, to give them everything they want and need, to protect them from dangers and discomforts both large and small. And yet we all know — on some level, at least — that what kids need more than anything is a little hardship: some challenge, some deprivation that they can...
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Robert Reich: Follow the Money: Behind Europe's... →
robertreich:
Today Ben Bernanke added his voice to those who are worried about Europe’s debt crisis.
But why exactly should America be so concerned? Yes, we export to Europe – but those exports aren’t going to dry up. And in any event, they’re tiny compared to the size of the U.S. economy.
If you want the…
Robert Reich: Follow the Money: Behind Europe's... →
robertreich:
Today Ben Bernanke added his voice to those who are worried about Europe’s debt crisis.
But why exactly should America be so concerned? Yes, we export to Europe – but those exports aren’t going to dry up. And in any event, they’re tiny compared to the size of the U.S. economy.
If you want the…
September 2011
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Robert Reich: The Election of 2012: Why the Most... →
robertreich:
We’re on the cusp of the 2012 election. What will it be about? It seems reasonably certain President Obama will be confronted by a putative Republican candidate who:
Believes corporations are people, wants to cut the top corporate rate to 25% (from the current 35%) and no longer require they pay…
“Now, however, compassion is out of fashion — indeed, lack of compassion has...”
– Free to Die by Paul Krugman, The New York Times. (via bobbyhundreds)
Robert Reich: The Republican Weapon of Mass... →
robertreich:
According to the latest ABC New/Washington Post poll, 77 percent of Americans say they “feel things have gotten pretty seriously off on the wrong track” in this country. That’s the highest percentage since January, 2009.
No surprise. The economy is almost as rotten now as it was two years ago….
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“As the nation gears up for the 2012 presidential election, Republican officials...”
– Rolling Stone, The GOP War on Voting (via wisconsinforward)
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"This is the best list on politic$ (that's... →
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- @lessig
August 2011
36 posts
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“Reagan believed that there were constitutional limits on federal power, yet he...”
– Columnist Reihan Salam argues that Reagan did federalism better. (via thedailyfeed)
BUSTING UP THE KLAN AND STICKING IT TO THE MAN -... →
Does the Klan still have relevance? The militias are, in my opinion, the modern manifestation of the Klan’s tradition of violence and white rule. The militia agenda, in some respects and in many areas, is far more drastic than the Klan could have ever conceived. The Klan, by and large, was considered patriotic and supportive of the US government, whereas the militias want to overthrow the American...
Is Rick Perry dumb? - Jonathan Martin -... →
He is not an ideas man. Perry hasn’t spent his political career marking up the latest Cato or Heritage white papers or reading policy-heavy books late into the night. Advisers and colleagues have informed much of his thinking over the years.
American Politics More Religious Than American... →
“The Michele Bachmanns and Rick Perrys of the world are playing to a base that’s much smaller than it was in the 1970s and 1980s,” said Chaves, whose new book, “American Religion: Contemporary Trends,” analyzes trends based on data from the General Social Survey and the National Congregations Study.
Using data collected between 1972 and 2008, Chaves said America is...
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Friday Fact: It takes 713 gallons (2,700 L) of... →
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“A politician’s attitude to evolution is perhaps not directly important in...”
– Attention Governor Perry: Evolution is a fact - On Faith - The Washington Post
Why Amazon Can't Make A Kindle In the USA - Forbes →
Decades of outsourcing manufacturing have left U.S. industry without the means to invent the next generation of high-tech products that are key to rebuilding its economy, as noted by Gary Pisano and Willy Shih in a classic article, “Restoring American Competitiveness” (Harvard Business Review, July-August 2009) The U.S. has lost or is on the verge of losing its ability to develop and manufacture a...
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“For the past two decades, according to a whistle-blower at the SEC who recently...”
– Matt Taibbi: Is the SEC Covering Up Wall Street Crimes? (via kateoplis)
Death Riders: OPINION VS. HATE →
deathriders:
Opinions are like assholes. But haters ARE assholes.
There’s a difference between OPINION and HATE, and I think it’s time we drew the difference.
Tonight, an erudite and composed (yet justifiably irate) thehundreds.com reader tweeted me, calling me out for what he considered was an…