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• New music act Danimals to write soundtrack for Lion Nathan TV ad

  
  mUmBRELLA — Authority: 572
  Lion Nathan’s competition to find a new musical act to star in a Tooheys Extra Dry TV ad has revealed Sydney band Danimals as the winner. The band was chosen by musician and producer Mark Ronson. Danimals will fly to New York to collaborate with Ronson in his studio with Nick Hodgson of Kaiser Chiefs, Sean ...
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• Spirit of ‘76: Thoughtful Look Into Framing of America’s Constitution is Great History Lesson

  
  Debbie Schlussel — Authority: 676
  By Debbie Schlussel“Spirit of ‘76” isn’t for dummies, but they’re the ones who most need to see it.  And Obama voters.  And people affected by big government interference.  And anyone who’s ever said, “there ought to be a federal law.”  And pretty much all Americans.  Watching this movie made me ...
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• Chronophage clock | The time eater clock of Paa

  
  Tiny News — Authority: 405
  The Chronophage clock or Corpus Clock is a large sculptural clock at street level on the outside of the Taylor Library at Corpus Christi College, Cambridge, England . The grasshopper (!) or chronophage, meaning time eater , advances around the 4ft-wide face, each step marking a second. Its movement triggers blue ...
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• The Journey Begins

  
  Dad-O-Matic — Authority: 419
  Today’s post is really a beginning. I’m a neurohacker at heart and by profession . I design behavioral software. That means I create media designed to “install” beliefs and behaviors into people just like you would install a new app onto your computer. I enjoy it. I’m good at it. And I believe that one day ...
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• Barbarians at the Gate: Are We Watching the Demise of Sound Central Banking?

  
  Incentives Matter — Authority: 130
  Bob McTeer explains in this post and John Taylor in this post how central bank independence to conduct monetary policy is under attack here in the US. Its also under attack in many other countries right at this moment. Take the Central Bank of Brazil, (which has never been too independent anyway) as an example: ...
  2 weeks ago

• Sorry, I Couldn’t Come Up With A Duran Duran Song Title Pun…

  
  Sell Off Music — Authority: 167
  While I don’t agree with his conclusion that the Internet has stunted artistic growth, I liked many of the observations that Duran Duran’s John Taylor made in his recent presentation at UCLA’s 40th Anniversary of the Internet conference. In particular, an idea that I’ve been coming back to for the past few ...
  3 weeks ago

• Sorry, I Couldnt Come Up With A Duran Duran Song Title Pun...

  
  Digital Audio Insider — Authority: 109
  While I dont agree with his conclusion that the Internet has stunted artistic growth, I liked many of the observations that Duran Durans John Taylor made in his recent presentation at UCLAs 40th Anniversary of the Internet conference. In particular, an idea that Ive been coming back to for the past few years: that ...
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• 2006 John Taylor Gatto Keynote

  
  Education Revolution — Authority: 119
  2006 John Taylor Gatto Keynote Address Find out more and order online at:www.educationrevolution.org/aero06gatto.html
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• More Than This: The Story of Roxy Music

  
  Eat Sleep Drink Music — Authority: 135
  Bar none the best Eagle Vision video we’ve seen to date, “More Than This: The Story of Roxy Music” is absolutely packed with interviewees, each with a unique perspective on the band’s musical vision, artistic direction and influence. The set is much more focused on the “Eno years” (that way they can ...
  4 weeks ago

• why we homeschool: john taylor gatto

  
  good tree montessori homeschool — Authority: 118
  i’m revisiting this because of a conversation my husband had with a coworker whose wife was a teacher. my husband was amazed because his coworker’s wife had never even heard of homeschooling. she actually thought it was a joke. i challenge every teacher or teacher-to-be to read the underground history of ...
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• Traitors to the American Revolution

  
  Tenth Amendment Center — Authority: 597
  by Thomas J. DiLorenzo, LewRockwell.com The American Revolution was waged against a highly centralized, nationalistic governmental tyranny run by a king, namely, the British Empire. The king enriched himself and his regime through the economic institution of mercantilism, defined by Murray Rothbard as “a system ...
  5 weeks ago

• When Politics and Academia Dont Mix

  
  The New Republic - the stash Feed — Authority: 138
  Is Stanfords John Taylor -- who, according to this measure is the 10th most influential economist in the world -- exhibit A for the corrosion that occurs when politics meets academic economics? In a blog post last week titled "National Accounts Show Stimulus Did Not Fuel GDP Growth," Taylor writes: Along with ...
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• Government Failure Versus Market Failure

  
  Incentives Matter — Authority: 130
  In this blog I like to point out how frequent and prevalent is the phenomenon of government failure . Under a public choice perspective, the problem is that, in the public sector, there are strong incentives to use market failure as an excuse for the adoption of awkward or interested public policies, while ...
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• Government Failure: Mankiw and Taylor on the Increases in Marginal Income Tax Rates

  
  Incentives Matter — Authority: 130
  A labor income tax is not too different from having to pay the government for the right to work. Its also a punishment on working more hours or more productively. The more we work and the more we earn from working, the more the government collects from us as "access to work fees." Right now, the government is not ...
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• The Future of Too Big Too Fail

  
  The Everyday Economist — Authority: 116
  As we emerge from the financial crisis, it is important to develop a framework for dealing with failing institutions. In particular, the nature of the doctrine of “too big to fail” must be addressed and re-examined. Recently, John Taylor and Larry White have spoken out about the need for a rule of law rather ...
  6 weeks ago

• Government Failure: Institutionalizing Bailouts

  
  Incentives Matter — Authority: 130
  John Taylor explains in this post how the administration is trying to transform its bailouts of large financial institutions (its "too big to fail" doctrine) into a permanent feature of the American financial regulatory framework: Fears of potential damage from the failure of a large financial institution has ...
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• Government Failure: More Evidence that the Administration is Wrong

  
  Incentives Matter — Authority: 130
  Here is John Taylor criticizing the claims of the administration . And here are the findings of new research by Alesina and Ardagna (HT Division of Labours Stephenson ): We examine the evidence on episodes of large stances in fiscal policy, both in cases of fiscal stimuli and in that of fiscal adjustments in ...
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• ;&gm^

  
  Education Revolution — Authority: 119
  “Walkabout London: Open Source Learning”
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