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The End of Parking Misery
Modern-Day Typhoid Marys
How Cellphone Companies Have Resisted Rules for Disasters
Mississippi River Faces Shipping Freeze as Water Levels Drop
How Much Tech Can One City Take? | Modern Luxury
Even American Drivers Like Mass Transit More Than They Think
The Great Montessori Schism - Atlantic Mobile
Why We Should Stop Talking About 'Bus Stigma' - Commute - The Atlantic Cities
Khan Academy Founder Salman Khan Breaks Down The Future Of Education And Learning
How High Design Can Help the Homeless - Housing - The Atlantic Cities
$20 Per Gallon: How the Inevitable Rise in the Price of Gasoline Will Change Our Lives for the Better:Amazon:Books
Guest Post: The Value of Short-term Energy Storage for Renewable Energy | Plugged In, Scientific American Blog Network
Jeff Jordan
People Hate Losses and That Affects U.S. Budget Talks- Bloomberg
Does Altruism Actually Exist? - Atlantic Mobile
The Truth about Violence : 3 Principles of Self-Defense : Sam Harris
California demographic shift: More people leaving than moving in - Los Angeles Times
LA Times - Let there be dark
Why Workers Are Losing the War Against Machines - Atlantic Mobile
What Lying Actually Does to Your Brain and Body Every Day
The Path of Economic Recovery from Superstorm Sandy - Liberty Street Economics
Renting Inefficiency | Energy Economics Exchange
What does randomness look like? | Empirical Zeal
the americas
Jerry Seinfeld Intends to Die Standing Up
The Signal and the Noise: Why Most Predictions Fail but Some Don't:Amazon:Books
I am Adam Lanza's Mother - The Blue Review | The Blue Review
The Difference Between Persuading and Convincing
Super Storm Sandy Recovery: The Case For Disaster Bonds
Exit, Voice, and Albert O. Hirschman - Justin Fox - Harvard Business Review
Can History Tell the Truth?
Of Luck and Success — Economic View - NYTimes.com
Choosing Poorly
Automate This: How Algorithms Came to Rule Our World:Amazon:Books
New Ways to Warn Threaten Tsunami Sirens in Oregon - NYTimes.com
The story of the self
Why Too Much Data Disables Your Decision Making | Psychology Today
Thomas Bayes and Bayes’s Theorem
Why Accountability Is So Muddled, and How to Un-Muddle It
Why economists love Intrade and why the government hates it
Feudal Security
Nassim Nicholas Taleb: The future will not be cool - Salon.com
CONVERSABLE ECONOMIST: Why Doesn't Someone Undercut Payday Lending?
Inequality is not just about taxes and education | Economic Policy Institute
NEW SOUTH JOURNALISM: Fact-Checking Feature
Foxwoods Is Fighting for Its Life
Distancing Techniques in Cognitive Therapy
Grow Your Own Energy
The Fire Next Time
Storm Stimulus
How Dangerous Is Your Couch?
May Doctors Help You to Die?
Making steam without boiling water, thanks to nanoparticles - The Washington Post
The kindness of beasts
A Simple Health-Care Fix Fizzles Out
Data Barns in a Farm Town, Gobbling Power and Flexing Muscle
Public Appearances, Private Realities: The Psychology of Self-Monitoring (Series of Books in Psychology):Amazon:Books
Silk Parachute:Amazon:Books
Too Big to Fall: America's Failing Infrastructure and the Way Forward:Amazon:Books
Genius : The Nickelback Story
Mental Model: Bias From Insensitivity To Base Rates
Pipelines Explained: How Safe are America’s 2.5 Million Miles of Pipelines? - ProPublica
The Avalanche That Killed Three Skiers at Stevens Pass | Snow Sports | OutsideOnline.com
When the Nerds Go Marching In - Atlantic Mobile
True or False? Pay Attention to a Story's Structure and Detect Whether It's Made Up
Bring back the 40-hour work week - Salon.com
Why Everyone (Else) Is a Hypocrite: Evolution and the Modular Mind:Amazon:Books
The Presentation Mistake You Don’t Know You’re Making
The Pygmalion Effect
How Insurers Can Foil the Next Hurricane Sandy | Wired Business | Wired.com
Let's Go Back to Patenting the 'Solution,' Not the 'Problem' | Wired Opinion | Wired.com
How Store Shelves Stay Stocked Even After a Sandy-Sized Disaster | Wired Business | Wired.com
Why the Answer to Motivation Is You | Greatist
The Risks of Trusting Experts
Warmth or Competence – Not Both
Washington Post
For New York's Subway, Sandy's Devastation May Be Just the Beginning - Atlantic Mobile
Power, Pollution and the Internet
Toxic State Syndrome: As California Declines, Texas Rises
The Woman Who Took the Fall for JPMorgan Chase
How Memories of Experience Influence Behavior
7 Ways To Stimulate Your Capacity For Creativity
California's community colleges staggering during hard times
The League of Dangerous Mapmakers
Who Destroyed the Economy? The Case Against the Baby Boomers
The science behind what motivates us to get up for work every day
Public Books — Errol Morris, Forensic Epistemologist
The Island Where People Forget to Die
health science
Life of a salesman: Selling success, when the American dream is downsized
The Broke Broker: He’s Got Keys to the Best Apartments, But Lacks One of His Own | Observer
Paradox of Hoaxes: How Errors Persist, Even When Corrected
Fix the Machine, Not the Person
Investor Demands (More! Less!) Show Financial Illiteracy
Criminal Justice
A Fish Story
Rita Crundwell and the Dixon Embezzlement
Soccer Violence in Argentina : Sports : OutsideOnline.com
How to find true friends (and love) in 45 minutes (Wired UK)
How to Make Performance Anxiety an Asset Instead of a Liability
Mental Models
BBC Column: Psychological self-defence for the age of email
Pandora's Risk: Uncertainty at the Core of Finance (Columbia Business School Publishing):Amazon:Books
The Talent Code: Greatness Isn't Born. It's Grown. Here's How.:Amazon:Books
The Answer Is (Artificially) Blowing in the Wind
At a High-Tech School, Supportive Adults Are the Real Key to Success
Can Campaign Ads Convince Voters Not to Care What's In Their Food?
A High-Tech Solution to the Writing Crisis
It's Time for California to End Its Death Penalty
Why Things Fail: From Tires to Helicopter Blades, Everything Breaks Eventua
Big, Smart and Green: A Revolutionary Vision for Modern Farming
Resilience: Why Things Bounce Back:Amazon:Books
The Honest Truth About Dishonesty: How We Lie to Everyone---Especially Ourselves:Amazon:Books
Nate Silver : The polls aren’t wrong
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The New Geography of Jobs:Amazon:Books
Wait: The Art and Science of Delay:Amazon:Books
1 | An Extra Cheap Way To Get Salt Out Of Water Could Help Make The World Less Thirsty | Co.Exist: World changing ideas and innovation
Rural Minorities Ponder The American Dream From The Bottom Rung Of The Econ
When You Can't Sleep, How Good Is Lying in Bed With Your Eyes Closed?
Misinformation: Why It Sticks and How to Fix It
Should the terminally ill control their deaths?
Invasion of the faux cities
Why Students Cheat on Tests : New York Magazine
The Hollow Boom Of Brooklyn: Behind Veneer Of Gentrification, Life Gets Worse For Many
Fly by Wire:Amazon:Books
The Collapse of American Criminal Justice:Amazon:Books
Liars and Outliers: Enabling the Trust that Society Needs to Thrive:Amazon:Books
Close Calls Are Near Disasters, Not Lucky Breaks
Get Disciplined, Not Motivated : Blog Of Impossible Things
The Hidden Truths about Calories
Did Barack Obama Save Ohio?
A Better Way to Practice
Can You Die From A Nightmare?
Black Swan Farming
A Fracking Good Story
Abundant Natural Gas and Oil Are Putting the Kabosh on Clean Energy
The Salton Sea: Death and Politics in the Great American Water Wars
We’re Winning the War on Poverty
The Weatherman Is Not a Moron
Breaking the Ice: Russian nuclear-powered ice-breakers
How Google Builds Its Maps—and What It Means for the Future of Everything
Raging Bulls: How Wall Street Got Addicted to Light-Speed Trading
Lean into the pain (Aaron Swartz's Raw Thought)
The Truancy Trap
The False Promise of Back-to-School Commercials - Atlantic Mobile
New Voting Laws: Bending the Arc of History Away From Justice - Atlantic Mobile
The Positive Power of Negative Thinking - NYTimes.com
What is Deliberate Practice
Lonely Men on Campus: Student Veterans Struggle to Fit In - Atlantic Mobile
Who's Really Skipping School? - Atlantic Mobile
In South Carolina, Shockingly Candid Talk About Voter Discrimination - Atlantic Mobile
Traffic
The Power of Checklists
Generalists vs. Specialists (And the Specialist’s Dilemma)
The Library of Utopia
Why This Could Be the Worst Mosquito Summer of All Time : New York Magazine
The last days of MF Global
BBC - Adam Curtis Blog: HOW TO KILL A RATIONAL PEASANT
Tiny little laws:
How To Feed the World After Climate Change
An American Gulag: Descending into Madness at Supermax
How To Make U.S. Agriculture Even Stronger
Apple’s Retail Army, Long on Loyalty but Short on Pay
How I hacked my brain with Adderall: a cautionary tale
Undead: The Rabies Virus Remains a Medical Mystery
Modern life is killing us
Metal recycling firms burgeon in state, but regulators can't keep up
Keystone
Why Nations Fail: The Origins of Power, Prosperity, and Poverty:Amazon:Kindle Store
Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking:Amazon:Books
Resource Rich, Cash Poor
The Ultra-Extreme Calorie Restriction Diet Test : New York Magazine
The Science of Success - Atlantic Mobile
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Homeland Security Watch » Near-misses, mitigation, and resilience
The Righteous Mind: Why Good People Are Divided by Politics and Religion:Amazon:Books
Why Pennsylvania's Voter ID Law Is Unconstitutional - Atlantic Mobile
America's Simple-Minded Obsession With the Confederate Flag - Atlantic Mobile
Daryl Johnson: I tried to warn them - Salon.com
Tampa: America’s hottest mess - Salon.com
The Credit Illusion - NYTimes.com
Steven Pearlstein: Shattering the Glass-Steagall myth - The Washington Post
Raising Successful Children - NYTimes.com
The Test Case Behind Goldman's Investment in Jail Inmates - Businessweek
Chivalry is a myth: In shipwrecks, it’s every man for himself - Slate Magazine
The economics of serial dating: A case study | Bundle
Myths about single mothers: What bloggers and pundits are getting wrong about them. - Slate Magazine
A Record Decline in Government Jobs: Implications for the Economy and America's Workforce
Overreaction and Overly Specific Reactions to Rare Risks
The Southwest Secret
Why Are Poland Spring Bottles So Crinkly?
Polka Dots Are In? Polka Dots It Is!
The Golden Boy and the Invisible Army
The Surprising Truths About Income Inequality in America: Big Issues: GQ
Is long-term solitary confinement torture? : The New Yorker
Rethinking “tough on crime”
The Dilbit Disaster: Inside The Biggest Oil Spill You've Never Heard Of, Pa
Reimagining Recreation
Postville, Iowa, Is Up for Grabs - NYTimes.com
Amazon.com: Finding Flow: The Psychology of Engagement with Everyday Life (Masterminds Series) (9780465024117): Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi: Books
Amazon.com: Steve Jobs (9781451648539): Walter Isaacson: Books
Rich Kid, Poor Kid: How Mixed Neighborhoods Could Save America's Schools - Atlantic Mobile
Amazon.com: It's Your Ship: Management Techniques from the Best Damn Ship in the Navy (9780446529112): Michael Abrashoff: Books
TwitLonger — When you talk too much for Twitter
Single Motherhood: Worse for children. - Slate Magazine
TomDispatch - Salon.com
Unleash our kids - Salon.com
BBC - Future - Health - Why I am always unlucky but you are always careless
L.A. sues US Bank over blighted, abandoned homes - latimes.com
Lower Costs and Better Care for Neediest Patients : The New Yorker
Moneyballing Criminal Justice - Atlantic Mobile
Lawsuits Should Not Be a Free-For All - Atlantic Mobile
A New Code for Reliable Justice - Atlantic Mobile
Scholars Return to ‘Culture of Poverty’ Ideas - NYTimes.com
A Culture of Poverty - Atlantic Mobile
“A tipping point is happening” - Salon.com
Amazon.com: Moonwalking with Einstein: The Art and Science of Remembering Everything (9780143120537): Joshua Foer: Books
Amazon.com: Top Secret America: The Rise of the New American Security State (9780316182218): Dana Priest, William M. Arkin: Books
David And Goliath: The Art And Science Of The Underdog
‘Resilience’ Author Andrew Zolli on the Secrets of Failure - The Daily Beast
Print - The Perfect Compliment - Esquire
Bin Laden realized the truth: Terrorism doesn't work - baltimoresun.com
Amazon.com: Texas Tough: The Rise of America's Prison Empire (9780312680473): Robert Perkinson: Books
http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~rja14/shb10/angela1.pdf
Predicting The Future
FORTUNE Features
NPR.org » The Psychology Of The Honor System At The Farm Stand
William Langewiesche on the Amazon air crash | The Magazine | Vanity Fair
Declining Birthrates Key to Europe's Decline
Private Prisons’ Cost Benefits Debated - NYTimes.com
We Don’t Need More Scientists—We Need Better Ones
Three seeds for America's future economic boom
A Serial Bomber in Phoenix | Stratfor
Peter Thiel’s Rise to Wealth and Libertarian Futurism : The New Yorker
Mimetic Desire in the 21st Century --mmoorejones
Mass Incarceration and Criminal Justice in America : The New Yorker
Brainstorming Doesn’t Really Work : The New Yorker
Chart: What Killed Us, Then and Now - Atlantic Mobile
Amazon.com: The Information Diet: A Case for Conscious Consumption (9781449304683): Clay A. Johnson: Books
The Phantom King of Buffalo
The last tower:
Atul Gawande — Failure and Rescue
Research Shows That the Smarter People Are, the More Susceptible They Are to Cognitive Bias : The New Yorker
Our great healthcare denial - Healthcare Reform - Salon.com
The stop-and-frisk crisis - AlterNet - Salon.com
The history of the paper clip: It was invented in 1899. It hasn’t been improved upon since. - Slate Magazine
How a Mexican Drug Cartel Makes Its Billions - NYTimes.com
Amazon.com: The City that Became Safe: New York's Lessons for Urban Crime and Its Control (Studies in Crime and Public Policy) (9780199844425): Franklin E. Zimring: Books
Will the Middle East starve? - Middle East - Salon.com
Why do people choke when the stakes are high? Loss aversion may be the culprit
Amazon.com: Last Harvest: From Cornfield to New Town: Real Estate Development from George Washington to the Builders of the Twenty-First Century, and Why We Live in Houses Anyway (9780743235976): Witold Rybczynski: Books
Your words matter - Neuroscience - Salon.com
Salon.com » Casinos aren’t the future Mobile
Salon.com » Our new era of anxiety Mobile
What do you do when the evidence says you’re wrong? | Farnam Street
David Foster Wallace — The Truth With A Whole Lot Of Rhetorical Bullshit Pared Away | Farnam Street
How Will You Measure Your Life? | Farnam Street
Noise and Signal — Nassim Taleb | Farnam Street
Amazon.com: The Political Mind: Why You Can't Understand 21st-Century American Politics with an 18th-Century Brain (9781615513857): George Lakoff: Books
Amazon.com: Why People Obey the Law (9780691126739): Tom R. Tyler: Books
Insurer targeted HIV patients to drop coverage
Politics: The Rise of the Killer Drones: How America Goes to War in Secret
McAllen, Texas and the high cost of health care
How the Chicken Conquered the World
Slippery-Slope Logic vs. Health Care Law - Economic View - NYTimes.com
Direct Fail
What’s in a Name? (Part 3)
What’s in a Name? (Part 2)
What’s in a Name? (Part 1)
American History
How Green Dot Charter Turned Around L.A.'s Worst Schools
Salon.com » A better border is possible Mobile
Fire in the Hole | Travel | Smithsonian Magazine
California's egg-farm law prompts a push for national standards - latimes.com
Many hospitals, doctors offer cash discount for medical bills - latimes.com
Last Ones Left in a Toxic Kansas Town
Amazon.com: Power and Plenty: Trade, War, and the World Economy in the Second Millennium (Princeton Economic History of the Western World) (9780691143279): Ronald Findlay, Kevin H. O'Rourke: Books
Discovering Autism
How the Potato Changed the World
The Gloucester Fish War
It's Not About Broccoli!: The False Case Against Health Care
NPR.org » Psychology Of Fraud: Why Good People Do Bad Things
Augusten Burroughs
Gutted
White Bread Kills
The Chocolate Machine That Can Improve Your Willpower - Businessweek
Chemical manufacturers rely on fear to push flame retardant furniture standards - chicagotribune.com
Healthcare jobs lift Pittsburgh from recession - latimes.com
Scamworld: 'Get rich quick' schemes mutate into an online monster | The Verge
Empire of the Bun - Features - Los Angeles magazine
New Statesman - You agree with this column
Amazon.com: The Matthew Effect: How Advantage Begets Further Advantage (9780231149488): Daniel Rigney: Books
Why McDonald's Fries Taste So Good
How the New York Film Academy discovered gold in the developing world
Truth or Consequences
Studies Question the Pairing of Food Deserts and Obesity
Amazon.com: Situations Matter: Understanding How Context Transforms Your World (9781594488184): Sam Sommers: Books
Amazon.com: Extreme Fear: The Science of Your Mind in Danger (Macsci) (9780230103481): Jeff Wise: Books
The Fatal Flaw of the Storyteller | Psychology Today
Amazon.com: Flourish: A Visionary New Understanding of Happiness and Well-being (9781439190760): Martin E. P. Seligman: Books
The taxes Americans really pay, in two graphs
Amazon.com: The Science of Trust: Emotional Attunement for Couples (9780393705959): John M. Gottman: Books
The Life
How Your Cat Is Making You Crazy
Angry Birds, Farmville and Other Hyperaddictive ‘Stupid Games’
Here's Why You Shouldn't Freak Out About the Shrinking Workforce - Atlantic Mobile
Amazon.com: Out of Character: Surprising Truths About the Liar, Cheat, Sinner (and Saint) Lurking in All of Us (9780307717757): David DeSteno, Piercarlo Valdesolo: Books
BlueCross BlueShield of Texas' blueprint for denying health policies.
Takeout story: Behind bulletproof glass and out on a bike for a Chinese res
The Gray Box: An investigative look at solitary confinement
Environmental regulation doesn't kill jobs; it creates them.
Warm Showers, Friction, And Failure: Jonah Lehrer On The Keys To Creativity
Can parking lots be great?
‘The Righteous Mind,’ by Jonathan Haidt
Amazon.com: The Ambiguities of Experience (Messenger Lectures) (9780801448775): James March: Books
This Reporter Waded Into The Wreckage Of The Foreclosure Crisis And Found Out It Was Far From Over
Talent Grab
The Treatment
pandoras briefcase
Drinking Games
The Sure Thing
Cocksure
On the Market
Amazon.com: Bargaining with the Devil: When to Negotiate, When to Fight: Robert Mnookin: Books
Amazon.com: On Writing Well, 30th Anniversary Edition: The Classic Guide to Writing Nonfiction (9780060891541): William Zinsser: Books
Amazon.com: A Mind of Its Own: How Your Brain Distorts and Deceives (9780393331639): Cordelia Fine: Books
More states privatizing their infrastructure. Are they making a mistake?
An emergency room story to make anyone ill - latimes.com
gladwell dot com : in the air
Late Bloomers
Spread Reckoning: U.S. Suburbs Face Twin Perils of Climate Change and Peak Oil [Excerpt]: Scientific American
Disentangling the channels of the 2007-2009 recession
Does Experience Make you an Expert?
Econbrowser: Why do gasoline prices differ across U.S. states?
Dangerous Minds
Open Secrets
The Risk Pool
The Uses of Adversity
Here's Why
Salon.com » On the waterfront, the battle rages on Mobile
Online Poker Kings Get Cashed Out
The rise and fall of white bread - Salon.com
Life, With Dementia
The Case for Treating Big Finance Like Big Pharma
gladwell dot com - the physical genius
Is The United States Population Heading to Long-term Deceleration?
Luv and War at 30,000 Feet
Dubya and Me
Rethinking Debt
Alex Peake's "Code Hero": How To Scale Education The Right Way
Why Middle Managers May Be the Most Important People in Your Company
Quitting the Paint Factory by Mark Slouka
Upheaval at the New York Public Library | The Nation
The High Price of Losing Manufacturing Jobs
GOOD Mobile
Behavioral Economics Foils an Obama Tax Cut? - Businessweek
Elementary Worldly Wisdom
What The Bagel Man Saw
The Left-Behinds
The Little State With a Big Mess
Bad Education
Transit: The 4 Percent Solution
Goodbye, New York State Residents are Rushing for the Exits
Here's The REAL Reason Gasoline Prices Have Been Surging In The US
The Forgetting Pill Erases Painful Memories Forever | Wired Magazine | Wired.com
Salon.com » The scientific argument for being emotional Mobile
The Irrational Risk of Thinking We Can Be Rational About Risk | Risk: Reason and Reality | Big Think
The Art of Distraction - NYTimes.com
How Doctors Could Rescue Health Care
A Radical Solution For America’s Worsening College Tuition Bubble
How Companies Learn Your Secrets
Why the Clean Tech Boom Went Bust
As teacher merit pay spreads, one noted voice cries, ‘It doesn’t work’
MILLIONAIRE'S ISLAND: A Simple Example Of Why 'Rich People' Don't Create Jo
Business & Technology | Empty, foreclosed houses burden cities, neighborhoods | Seattle Times Newspaper
Amazon.com: Willpower: Rediscovering the Greatest Human Strength (9781594203077): Roy F. Baumeister, John Tierney: Books
Amazon.com: On Apology (9780195189117): Aaron Lazare M.D.: Books
Why Downtowns Fail and How They Can Come Back
Washingtonpost.com : Invisible Lives
Leveling the field:
Could this time have been different?
The Snakehead
How Carrots Became The New Junk Food
The Embarrassment of Riches
Terrorist Threats to Commercial Aviation: A Contemporary Assessment
For families without options, that cheap motel may be their last resort
Straight Time
Dispatch From Angola: Faith-Based Slavery in a Louisiana Prison
“LIVING IN A TRAILER” by James Jones – July 1952
Rolling Stone Mobile - Politics - Politics: Climate Change and the End of Australia
Making murder respectable
How to Get a Nuclear Bomb
Stolen Bikes – How to Catch a Bike Thief : Biking : OutsideOnline.com
Between the Lines
This Tech Bubble Is Different
[Transcript] Tyler Cowen on Stories - Less Wrong Discussion
The Dollar Store Economy - NYTimes.com
All the Single Ladies - Atlantic Mobile
Paper Tigers
Goldman's new money machine: warehouses
Why Is Unemployment Duration So Long? (201 : 3, 1/30/2012)
The mystery of slow family household formation
The Shadow Superpower - By Robert Neuwirth | Foreign Policy
The Woman Who Knew Too Much
The American Scholar: Solitude and Leadership - William Deresiewicz
When Irish Eyes Are Crying | Business | Vanity Fair
James Meek · In the Sorting Office · LRB 28 April 2011