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

PREMORTEMS FOR BETTER DECISIONS

http://www.farnamstreetblog.com/2014/01/kahneman-better-decisions/

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

PREDICTING SUICIDE

http://www.cincinnatimagazine.com/features/2014/01/02/last-words?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

PRIORITIZING RISKS

http://www.pieria.co.uk/articles/on_risk

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/

BOOK DAVID AND GOLIATH

http://www.amazon.com/David-Goliath-Underdogs-Misfits-Battling/dp/0316204366/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1389576490&sr=1-1&keywords=david+and+goliath+malcolm+gladwell

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

LOS ANGELES MYTHS

http://www.buzzfeed.com/arianelange/los-angeles-myths-debunked?s=mobile

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/

THE COLLINGRIDGE DILEMMA

http://edge.org/response-detail/10898

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

GROUP POLARIZATION DYNAMICS

http://www.edge.org/response-detail/10662

HOW SEA LEVEL IS DETERMINED

http://www.farnamstreetblog.com/2013/12/determining-sea-level/

AVOIDING "THIS TIME IS DIFFERENT"

http://www.farnamstreetblog.com/2014/01/this-time-is-different/

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