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Thursday, February 21, 2008
From The Onion (2 clicks)
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February 21, 2008 at 5:01 am ET
Too good: "Study Finds Jack Shit". ... (more)

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February 21, 2008 at 5:00 am ET
"The United States, Sweden and Japan topped a new ranking that measures how well countries use telecommunications technologies -- networks, cell phones and computers -- to boost their social and economic prosperity." ... (more)

Wednesday, February 20, 2008
Amazing (3 clicks)
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February 20, 2008 at 5:43 am ET
Girl with autism, unable to speak, labelled "moderately to severely cognitively impaired", begins to communicate. ... (more)

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February 20, 2008 at 5:23 am ET
"Software Essentials for the Modern Educator". Big list. Everything faculty need except for things to prepare lectures, write papers, and tolerate committee meetings. "Free and Open Source Software". Another big list, and not just for ... (more)

Tuesday, February 19, 2008
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February 19, 2008 at 5:51 am ET
Kevin Kelly concisely summarizes how the entertainment businesses will be foreced to change by the Net: When copies are super abundant, they become worthless. When copies are super abundant, stuff which can't be copied becomes ... (more)

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February 19, 2008 at 5:37 am ET
"100 Best Movie Soundtracks". There are some good ones on this list--The Big Chill, Godfather II, Pulp Fiction, The Magnificent Seven, Blade Runner, and The Graduate--but it misses completely the extraordinary work of Thomas Newman ... (more)

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February 19, 2008 at 5:33 am ET
Impatient for Star Trek-ian warp drive? NASA explains the problems and the approaches. ... (more)

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February 19, 2008 at 5:32 am ET
Beavis and Butthead, now attending many of my undergraduate classes, are apparently everywhere. ... (more)

Monday, February 18, 2008
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February 18, 2008 at 5:56 am ET
Paige Skiba (Vanderbilt Law School) and Jeremy Tobacman (Oxford), "The Profitability of Payday Loans": Payday loans provide households with expensive, short-term liquidity. This paper studies the profitability of payday lending using standard .nancial data from ... (more)

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February 18, 2008 at 5:45 am ET
Spreadsheet showing, as of last February, the average salaries of Purdue Univ. faculty by department, with breakouts by rank. The spreadsheet also shows "Peer Average Salary, Excluding Purdue". Here are statistics, for 2006-07, for Oklahoma ... (more)

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February 18, 2008 at 5:40 am ET
A fine James Lileks rant that starts with this biting sentence: Love of country must always be qualified these days, lest anyone think you are unaware of slavery, insufficiently regulated railroad stock offerings, Lester Maddox ... (more)

Useful book? (1 click)
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February 18, 2008 at 5:38 am ET
Mefites discuss the question, "What is the most useful book you own?" Props to the person who picked Peter Kennedy's A Guide to Econometrics. A big boo to the person who picked Howard Zinn's A ... (more)

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February 18, 2008 at 5:35 am ET
I wonder about the proposed merger of Microsoft and Sony. It seems to me that, at best, Microsoft is overpaying. Here's an article that argues that Microsoft should instead merge with Sony. ... (more)

Sunday, February 17, 2008
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February 17, 2008 at 5:32 am ET
James Pethokoukis: What does "change" cost? About a quarter of a trillion bucks a year, according to Barack Obama. Charles Krauthammer is unimpressed, too: "The Audacity of Selling Hope". ... (more)

Saturday, February 16, 2008
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February 16, 2008 at 5:29 am ET
The Wharton School auctions spots in its MBA classes. ... (more)

Friday, February 15, 2008
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February 15, 2008 at 5:35 am ET
40 Yiddish Words You Should Know. ... (more)

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February 15, 2008 at 5:30 am ET
Tony Snow, on Reagan, at CPAC. (Mr. Snow knows what's he talking about: watch his address and recall that he has metastatic cancer.) ... (more)

Pizza (8 clicks)
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February 15, 2008 at 5:12 am ET
Everything you ever wanted to know about U.S. regional pizza styles. ... (more)

Thursday, February 14, 2008
Locopops! (4 clicks)
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February 14, 2008 at 5:38 am ET
Good news for Raleigh residents: before the end of the month, Locopops of Durham will open an outlet at Hillsborough and Oberlin (two blocks east of the NCSU Bell Tower). A locopop is a Mexican ... (more)

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February 14, 2008 at 5:34 am ET
How do you interest kids in learning physics? Show 'em NASCAR. ... (more)

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February 14, 2008 at 5:28 am ET
Thomas Sowell interviewed briefly about his new book, Economic Facts and Fallacies. ... (more)

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February 14, 2008 at 5:19 am ET
I believe that most of my undergraduate students read less for pleasure than most students did when I was in college. My wife thinks the same about her high school students. We're not the only ... (more)

Wednesday, February 13, 2008
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February 13, 2008 at 5:31 am ET
There's hypocrisy. There's rank hypocrisy. But we need a new word to describe the Duke administration's policy toward strippers. ... (more)

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February 13, 2008 at 5:25 am ET
. . . of why some countries have been, and remain, poor. The Ivory Coast built a church with "7000 individually air-conditioned seats" that cost $300 million. ... (more)

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February 13, 2008 at 5:16 am ET
Barely a week goes by that I don't see something that suggests more medical miracles are right around the corner. "Scientists Discover Way to Reverse Loss of Memory". "A Visionary Approach Using Stem Cells to ... (more)

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