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Friday, January 31, 2014
BOOK SCARCITY
http://www.amazon.com/Scarcity-Having-Little-Means-Much/dp/0805092641/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1391229524&sr=1-1&keywords=scarcity+why+having+too+little+means+so+much
Sunday, January 26, 2014
PAYING THE POOR HAS BENEFITS
http://mobile.nytimes.com/blogs/opinionator/2014/01/18/what-happens-when-the-poor-receive-a-stipend/
BOOK RISE OF THE WARRIOR COP
http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_sb_ss_i_2_14?url=search-alias%3Dstripbooks&field-keywords=rise+of+the+warrior+cop+by+radley+balko&sprefix=rise+of+the+wa%2Cstripbooks%2C501
JAPAN'S AGING POPULATION
http://www.ft.com/intl/cms/s/2/07d4c8a8-7e45-11e3-b409-00144feabdc0.html?src=longreads
CHALLENGES FOR AMERICAN MANUFACTURING JOBS
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/01/26/opinion/sunday/rattner-the-myth-of-industrial-rebound.html?partner=rss&emc=rss&_r=1
Friday, January 24, 2014
WORKING WHILE DISABLED
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/wonkblog/wp/2014/01/24/you-work-until-you-die-inside-americas-fragmented-safety-net-for-the-disabled/
Tuesday, January 21, 2014
APPROVING A REPLACEMENT FOR AMBIEN
http://m.newyorker.com/reporting/2013/12/09/131209fa_fact_parker?currentPage=1
FORFEITURE LAW ABUSE
http://m.newyorker.com/reporting/2013/08/12/130812fa_fact_stillman?currentPage=all
NETFLIX GENRES
http://m.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2014/01/how-netflix-reverse-engineered-hollywood/282679/?src=longreads
HOMESTEADING IN DETROIT
http://www.buzzfeed.com/drewphilp/why-i-bought-a-house-in-detroit-for-500?src=longreads&s=mobile
Saturday, January 18, 2014
VALLEY FEVER FUNGUS
http://www.businessinsider.com/valley-fever-epidemic-in-arizona-2014-1?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+businessinsider+%28Business+Insider%29
Friday, January 17, 2014
SMALL BUSINESSES NEED DOWNTOWNS
http://www.strongtowns.org/journal/2014/1/15/the-case-for-investing-downtown.html#.UtoMf32Ia2c
Thursday, January 16, 2014
BOOK I WEAR THE BLACK HAT
http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_sb_ss_i_1_13?url=search-alias%3Dstripbooks&field-keywords=i+wear+the+black+hat+by+chuck+klosterman&sprefix=I+wear+the+bl%2Cstripbooks%2C2348
Wednesday, January 15, 2014
THE COST OF SURVEILLANCE
http://www.yalelawjournal.org/the-yale-law-journal-pocket-part/constitutional-law/tiny-constables-and-the-cost-of-surveillance:-making-cents-out-of-united-states-v.-jones
Sunday, January 12, 2014
ORGANIC BATTERIES
http://www.businessinsider.com/harvard-study-of-quinones-flow-battery-2014-1?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+businessinsider+%28Business+Insider%29
GRADUATE FROM HIGH SCHOOL AT YOUR PUBLIC LIBRARY
http://m.theatlanticcities.com/arts-and-lifestyle/2014/01/la-public-library-about-start-offering-high-school-diplomas/8080/
MOTIVATED REASONING
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/wonkblog/wp/2014/01/10/the-depressing-psychological-theory-that-explains-washington/
THE VICIOUS CIRCLE OF INCOME INEQUALITY
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/01/12/business/the-vicious-circle-of-income-inequality.html
CAR DEPENDENCY: NEW YORK, SAN FRANCISCO AND LA
http://la.streetsblog.org/2010/12/13/density-car-ownership-and-what-it-means-for-the-future-of-los-angeles/
FAMILY STRUCTURE AND POVERTY
http://filipspagnoli.wordpress.com/2014/01/10/the-causes-of-poverty-74-family-structure-ctd/
Thursday, January 9, 2014
STROADS
http://m.theatlanticcities.com/commute/2014/01/dangerous-street-design-spreading-through-suburbs/8033/
UK COPS TO WEAR CAMERAS
http://www.businessinsider.com/uk-firearms-police-to-trial-cameras-2014-1?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+businessinsider+%28Business+Insider%29
Wednesday, January 8, 2014
TAXES WORK BETTER THAN INCENTIVES
http://www.brookings.edu/research/opinions/2014/01/08-why-a-bag-tax-works-wessel?rssid=LatestFromBrookings&utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+BrookingsRSS%2Ftopfeeds%2FLatestFromBrookings+%28Latest+From+Brookings%29
Tuesday, January 7, 2014
BOOK THIS EXPLAINS EVERYTHING
http://www.amazon.com/This-Explains-Everything-Beautiful-Theories/dp/0062230174/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1389112417&sr=1-1&keywords=this+explains+everything+deep+beautiful+and+elegant+theories+of+how+the+world+works
Sunday, January 5, 2014
WIND TURBINES, BIRDS, AND BATS
http://grist.org/climate-energy/for-the-birds-and-the-bats-8-ways-wind-power-companies-are-trying-to-prevent-deadly-collisions/?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_term=Daily%2520Jan%25203&utm_campaign=daily
Friday, January 3, 2014
EVERYTHING IS THE WAY IT IS BECAUSE IT GOT THAT WAY
http://mindblog.dericbownds.net/2012/03/everything-is-way-it-is-because-it-got.html
Thursday, January 2, 2014
Wednesday, January 1, 2014
IS THE US REALLY BEHIND IN BROADBAND SPEED?
http://www.digitopoly.org/2013/12/31/end-the-broadband-panic-meme/
REDUNDANCY REDUCTION AND PATTERNS
http://old.richarddawkins.net/articles/644605-redundancy-reduction-and-pattern-recognition-richard-dawkins-s-answer-to-the-annual-edge-question
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