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    Tuesday, April 15, 2008 Financial literacy (2 clicks)
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April 15, 2008 at 5:43 am ET Our high-schoolers should spend less time studying recycling and global warming and more time learning basic personal finance. This is discouraging: In this year's survey, only 16.8 percent correctly answered that stocks likely would offer ... (more) NCLB (pronounced "Nickleby") (2 clicks)
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April 15, 2008 at 5:38 am ET Chester E. ("Checker") Finn, Jr. tackles five myths about No Child Left Behind, "the education law everyone loves to hate". ... (more) From Newmark's Door - view blog entries - visit this blog
April 15, 2008 at 5:31 am ET The argument that "America's reputation is in tatters" and that we have to regain the trust of the world. Abe Greenwald asks: who exactly are we talking about? ... (more) Kevin Spacey on Inside the Actors Studio (2 clicks)
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April 15, 2008 at 5:30 am ET This clip shows off Spacey's fine talent for impersonations. ... (more) Monday, April 14, 2008 From Newmark's Door - view blog entries - visit this blog
April 14, 2008 at 5:47 am ET Interesting-sounding paper I haven't read yet: Jonathan S. Masur of the U. of Chicago Law School notes that the U. S. Patent Office has a "well-deserved reputation for ineptitude and inefficiency", but Masur argues that ... (more) From Newmark's Door - view blog entries - visit this blog
April 14, 2008 at 5:33 am ET Oil prices way up? Concern--valid or not--about carbon emissions? It's no surprise, then, that people will work harder to develop solar power. Here's "The World's Largest Solar Energy Projects". ... (more) This must scare our Liberal friends to death (2 clicks)
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April 14, 2008 at 5:25 am ET What if force--military force--turns out to be moral and noble? What if American soldiers are now winning hearts and minds? Michael Yon's eyewitness account (Wall Street Journal, 4/11): A young Iraqi translator, wounded in battle ... (more) We owe what?? (1 click)
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April 14, 2008 at 5:16 am ET Stephen Moore writes a hair-curling account of the unfunded retirement liabilities many U.S. cities and towns face. And guess what? The public-employee unions aren't helping. ... (more) "How to Think" (3 clicks)
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April 14, 2008 at 5:08 am ET Ed Boyden, assistant professor at MIT: When I applied for my faculty job at the MIT Media Lab, I had to write a teaching statement. One of the things I proposed was to teach a ... (more) From Newmark's Door - view blog entries - visit this blog
April 14, 2008 at 4:56 am ET "They mean that you can be a brilliant young scholar, from a top program, but if you're an expert in Hemingway, Faulkner and Fitzgerald, or Malamud, Bellow and Roth, or Gaddis, Pynchon and DeLillo, or ... (more) Sunday, April 13, 2008 "Making the World a Billion Times Better" (7 clicks)
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April 13, 2008 at 5:34 am ET Feeling a bit gloomy? Pessimistic? Believe all the junk that our Democratic friends are saying? Read Roy Kurzweil's predictions of what's coming. If he's even half right, it will be amazing. (And if you think ... (more) The unbelievably dopey Trent Lott (3 clicks)
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April 13, 2008 at 4:56 am ET Michelle Malkin: "Everything that’s wrong with the Beltway GOP elite in two words". (Not for the easily nauseated.) I can sorta sympathize with Trent Lott for being clueless. (Let he who is without sin cast ... (more) Saturday, April 12, 2008 Four videos (5 clicks)
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April 12, 2008 at 5:37 am ET 5-year-old girl rocks the Canadian anthem. I've seen a lot of "amazing basketball shots," but I hadn't seen one like this. (Via Bill Simmons.) This year's men's tourney featured another great Nike ad: "There Are ... (more) Friday, April 11, 2008 Rooting for disaster (4 clicks)
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April 11, 2008 at 5:46 am ET Ottawa Citizen columnist totally nails "declinists". One of the most disturbing aspects of the growing concern over climate change is the giddy delight with which some members of the left await the coming global catastrophe. ... (more) From Newmark's Door - view blog entries - visit this blog
April 11, 2008 at 5:39 am ET Economist Eric Rasmusen has written "Capitalization Rules for Titles". A New York Times writer discusses the semicolon. Semicolon sightings in the city are unusual, period, much less in exhortations drafted by committees of civil servants. ... (more) Deep funk (3 clicks)
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April 11, 2008 at 5:29 am ET Not just Michael, but the entire Jackson family has hit hard times. Michael, at his peak: the famous Motown 25 performance. ... (more) Thursday, April 10, 2008 From Newmark's Door - view blog entries - visit this blog
April 10, 2008 at 5:48 am ET The NY Sun has a column, "Economics on the Web". ... (more) Old technologies (1 click)
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April 10, 2008 at 5:41 am ET Interesting New York Times article, "Why Old Technologies Are Still Kicking". In some instances, older technologies don't "die". Radio was supposed to kill records/tapes/CDs, TV was supposed to replace movies, and PCs were supposed to ... (more) For the extra cautious . . . (1 click)
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April 10, 2008 at 5:34 am ET "Are Your Sure Your EMail Isn't Being Hacked?" ... (more) Dan Neil almost loses his mind (2 clicks)
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April 10, 2008 at 5:24 am ET Test driving a 2008 Porsche GT2, LA Times car reviewer extraordinare Dan Neil, fries a few neurons. To love the GT2 is to embrace its malign indifference to your well-being. . . . the most ... (more) Wednesday, April 9, 2008 Late grades (2 clicks)
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April 9, 2008 at 5:40 am ET Article about how Florida State now charges professors $10 per grade that is late. (The comments following the articles are worth reading, too.) ... (more) Davidson's NCAA effects (2 clicks)
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April 9, 2008 at 5:38 am ET Davidson's recent run in the NCAA basketball tournament appears to have had some noticeable effects: Average regular daily sales at Davidson College Bookstore before Sunday, March 23: $1,700. Daily sales at Davidson College Bookstore on ... (more) From Newmark's Door - view blog entries - visit this blog
April 9, 2008 at 5:12 am ET FYI: in the future, people won't be able to observe the remnants of the Big Bang. When the universe is 100 billion years old, the peak wavelengths of the microwave radiation will be on the ... (more) From GE (2 clicks)
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April 9, 2008 at 5:10 am ET Need an online whiteboard? GE provides one. ... (more) Tuesday, April 8, 2008 "Do the Time, Lower the Crime" (6 clicks)
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April 8, 2008 at 5:44 am ET An argument that I'm seeing more frequently is that we have "too many people in jail". Noted social scientist James Q. Wilson replies. ... (more) Items 507 - 531 of 595
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