Monday, October 28, 2013

WHAT'S WRONG WITH PUERTO RICO?

http://www.businessinsider.com/puerto-rico-debt-crisis-2013-10?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+businessinsider+%28Business+Insider%29

Saturday, October 26, 2013

THE SCIENCE OF SWARMS

http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2013/03/powers-of-swarms/all/

Friday, October 25, 2013

THE DANGERS OF JUST IN TIME FOOD DISTRIBUTION

http://m.theatlanticcities.com/politics/2013/10/new-yorks-looming-food-disaster/7294/

WHAT IT'S LIKE IN PRISON

http://www.oxfordamerican.org/articles/2013/apr/01/issue-80-fog-count/

DISSONANCE THEORY - RECONCILING ACTIONS WITH BELIEFS

http://www.bbc.com/future/story/20130312-why-we-act-against-our-beliefs/print

Wednesday, October 23, 2013

LAW SCHOOL IS A SHAM

http://www.salon.com/2013/04/06/law_school_is_a_sham/

WHY NOT ACCURATELY MONITOR CLIMATE CHANGE?

http://www.popsci.com/technology/article/2011-03/lost-satellite?nopaging=1

CHOOSING LOW WAGE CAREERS

http://www.elle.com/_mobile/life-love/society-career/creative-ambition-versus-financially-stable-job?src=longreads

THE BUSINESS OF BOOKS

http://www.vqronline.org/articles/2013/spring/nash-business-literature/?utm_source=DailyNewsletter

Tuesday, October 22, 2013

REDUCING HIGH SCHOOL SUSPENSIONS

http://www.csmonitor.com/layout/set/print/USA/Education/2013/0331/Restorative-justice-One-high-school-s-path-to-reducing-suspensions-by-half?src=longreads

COFFEE AND ETHIOPIA

http://www.afar.com/magazine/coffeeland

WHAT DRIVES JUDGES' DECISIONS?

http://www.newrepublic.com/article/112683/moneyball-judges

LIBOR AND SWAP MANIPULATION

http://feedly.com/k/12vVxFO

MICRO APARTMENTS

http://preview.reuters.com/2013/6/2/big-city-tiny-apartment-small-scale-living-is-1

INMATE MENTAL ILLNESS

http://fresnoalliance.com/wordpress/?p=7800

Monday, October 21, 2013

CLIMATE CHANGE AND FLOODING

http://www.slate.com/articles/health_and_science/climate_desk/2013/06/map_fema_study_shows_flood_hazard_areas_may_increase_45_percent_by_2100.html

PERFORMANCE PLATEAUS

http://www.farnamstreetblog.com/2013/06/the-8-causes-of-plateaus/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+68131+%28Farnam+Street%29

DENTAL CARE AND EMPLOYMENT RELATIONSHIP

http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2013/06/13/bad-teeth-broken-dreams-lack-of-dental-care-keeps-many-out-of-jobs.html

IMMIGRATION AND LOW WAGE JOBS

http://www.washingtonpost.com/national/low-skilled-immigrants-economic-burden-or-boon/2013/08/24/b1b88858-ed5b-11e2-9008-61e94a7ea20d_print.html

EXCEPTIONS TO THE 10,000 HOUR RULE OF EXPERTISE

http://m.newyorker.com/online/blogs/sportingscene/2013/08/psychology-ten-thousand-hour-rule-complexity.html?utm_source=%22BarkingUpTheWrongTree%22WeeklyNewsletter

THE MENTAL HEALTH OF CODERS

http://www.columbiaspectator.com/eye/2013/04/18/code-red

REGULATING INTERNATIONAL AND MULTINATIONAL BANKS

http://www.voxeu.org/article/there-future-international-banks

REASONS TO ASK FOR ADVICE

http://www.mediate.com/mobile/article.cfm?id=2748

POWERFUL SPEECH UNDERMINES COLLABORATION

http://www.pon.harvard.edu/daily/business-negotiations/the-perils-of-powerful-speech/

Sunday, October 20, 2013

SHARING THE BENEFITS OF PRODUCTIVITY GAINS

http://www.epi.org/blog/slow-wage-growth-sign-big-problem-profit/

LESSONS FROM DETROIT'S BANKRUPTCY

http://www.newgeography.com/content/003887-what-detroit-has-really-taught-america?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+Newgeography+%28Newgeography.com+-+Economic%2C+demographic%2C+and+political+commentary+about+places%29

THE PSYCHOLOGY OF DEADLINES

http://blogs.hbr.org/2013/08/heres-what-really-happens-when/

FUTURE SHORTAGE OF CAREGIVERS

http://www.washingtonpost.com/national/health-science/huge-shortage-of-caregivers-looms-for-baby-boomers-report-says/2013/08/25/665fb2aa-0ab1-11e3-b87c-476db8ac34cd_story.html?wpisrc=nl_headlines

BOOK GIVE AND TAKE

http://www.amazon.com/Give-Take-Revolutionary-Approach-Success/dp/0670026557/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1382289915&sr=8-1&keywords=give+and+take

THE MENTAL TOLL OF POVERTY

http://m.theatlanticcities.com/jobs-and-economy/2013/08/how-poverty-taxes-brain/6716/

SLEEP IS GOOD FOR YOUR BRAIN

http://www.washingtonpost.com/national/health-science/brains-flush-toxic-waste-in-sleep-including-alzheimers-linked-protein-study-of-mice-finds/2013/10/19/9af49e40-377a-11e3-8a0e-4e2cf80831fc_story.html?wpisrc=nl_headlines

Saturday, October 19, 2013

THE EFFECT OF STUDENT AID ON TUITION COSTS

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/wonkblog/wp/2013/09/03/the-tuition-is-too-damn-high-part-vii-is-government-aid-actually-making-college-more-expensive/

COLLEGE IS STILL WORTH IT

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/wonkblog/wp/2013/08/27/the-tuition-is-too-damn-high-part-ii-why-college-is-still-worth-it/

UNCONTROLLED COLLEGE SPENDING

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/wonkblog/wp/2013/09/02/the-tuition-is-too-damn-high-part-vi-why-theres-no-reason-for-big-universities-to-rein-in-spending/

TUITION AND THE COST DISEASE

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/wonkblog/wp/2013/08/30/the-tuition-is-too-damn-high-part-v-is-the-economy-forcing-colleges-to-spend-more/

WHY COLLEGE TUITION IS INCREASING

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/wonkblog/wp/2013/08/28/the-tuition-is-too-damn-high-part-iii-the-three-reasons-tuition-is-rising/

THE INCREASE IN COLLEGE TUITION

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/wonkblog/wp/2013/08/26/introducing-the-tuition-is-too-damn-high/

Friday, October 18, 2013

THE SOCIAL BENEFITS OF CUL DE SACS

http://m.theatlanticcities.com/housing/2013/10/sociologists-defense-cul-de-sac/7262/

Tuesday, October 8, 2013

BOOK THE LAST GUN

http://www.amazon.com/Last-Gun-Changes-Industry-Americans/dp/1595588302/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1381273945&sr=1-1&keywords=the+last+gun+tom+diaz

Tuesday, October 1, 2013

BOOK MIND OVER MIND

http://www.amazon.com/Mind-Over-Surprising-Power-Expectations/dp/1591846579/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1380649920&sr=1-1&keywords=mind+over+mind