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The Suicidal Planet is timely, and recommended reading
... It Strikes Me Funny by G. Harrison —
Authority: 433
Finally, I came to the end of the book The Suicidal Planet, and though I still think it should be called It Looks like Homicide To Me, I recommend it highly. The book is timely. Every world leader sitting down for climate change talks in Copenhagen should have a copy in their briefcase. They could introduce their ...13 hours ago -
Recommended Reading from Online Magazines
Dark Sky Magazine —
Authority: 134
G reat new(ish) stories from around the Web. Forget work for a minute and read a story. It’s good for you. – Francis Varsho took leave from opening his birthday presents to calm himself in private. Almost all gifts people gave him these days insulted Francis deeply, as though, through the act of generosity, ...13 hours ago -
Recommended Reading for December 7
FWD/Forward —
Authority: 648
Disability & Poverty People with disabilities, the report says, account for a larger share of those experiencing poverty than people in all other minority, ethnic and racial groups combined and are even a larger group than single parents. The extra costs associated with living with a disability such as ...15 hours ago -
Shorter Recommended Reading
zenpundit.com —
Authority: 126
I’m pretty tired, megaproject due on Monday which I finished a few hours ago, but I have not done one of these posts in a while. TopBilling! HG’S World - 600 Years of Naval Strategy It’s a big post, as befits six centuries of history and strategy: The key point of the article focuses on the real goal ...1 day ago -
Femmostroppo Reader (Scitech Edition) – December 7, 2009
Hoyden About Town —
Authority: 138
Items of interest found recently in my RSS feed. What did I miss? Please share what youve been reading (and writing!) in the comments. “As you’ll see, very few commentators who jumped on the conspiracy bandwagon even before reading the e-mails managed to get it right. “ “Donation” and “Welfare” ...1 day ago -
Recommended Articles for the Week of November 30
Ms. Smarty Pants Know It All —
Authority: 122
Here my are favorite reads for the week: The FICO folks reveal exactly how many points you lose with each financial misstep. Very interesting. Doesn’t Thanksgiving in Venice make you want to travel? Take a break and enjoy Beaker , the Swedish Chef , and Animal do Habanera from Bizet’s Carmen.1 day ago -
Two Books on Technology: "The Nature of Technology" & "Technology Matters"
JND.org —
Authority: 447
Technology is important to all of us, and it is critical to understand the role it plays in society. Society, culture, human behavior and technology lay a complex intertwined role together, each mutually influencing the other, so the evolution of each is affected by the evolution of the others.2 days ago -
The Lie Detectors
JND.org —
Authority: 447
Alder, K. (2007). The lie detectors: the history of an American obsession. New York: Free Press. There is a continual group of scientists and tinkerers whose life is driven by the passion to discover a machine that would tell us when someone was lying. Unfortunately, many have claimed success, sufficiently so that the ...2 days ago -
The measure of all things
JND.org —
Authority: 447
Alder, K. (2002). The measure of all things: the seven-year odyssey and hidden error that transformed the world. New York: Free Press. Measurement is of critical importance to science, but as Ken Alder shows in this fun and informative book, scientific activities cannot be separated from the personalities of those ...2 days ago -
Indefinite Pursuits
51stories —
Authority: 107
The year’s drawing to an end and so are the noughties. Papers are being filled with ‘definitive lists’ of great events, the most read books, the best books, etc. I realise that I haven’t kept pace at all these last few months, I’ve stopped recording my reading lists, have been slack on reviews. All ...2 days ago -
Femmostroppo Reader – December 5, 2009
Hoyden About Town —
Authority: 138
Items of interest found recently in my RSS feed. What did I miss? Please share what youve been reading (and writing!) in the comments. Have Yourself a Rapey Little Christmas – Yet another song where most of us just never think about what those lyrics are really conveying I Like Matt Damon – “It ...2 days ago -
Weekend Reading #3
The Captain's Journal —
Authority: 537
TCJ was linked at Hannity , and it seems like every time a rules of engagement article is linked, some wise guy drops by and says something like “but this isn’t war, it is a counterinsurgency and in COIN we must prevent killing innocents and thus win the hearts and minds.” Well now. I just hadn’t figured ...2 days ago -
Resume Keyword Optimization matches Jobs and Seekers
Upright Communications —
Authority: 110
Keyword optimization is a vital component in website SEO, allowing search engines to find and rank relevant content for internet users. Increasingly, this effective concept is being utilized in business not only by marketing experts, but also by human resource managers.With high volumes of job applicants and the ...3 days ago -
Recommended Reading: Aiming For Liberty by David Kopel
Bore Patch —
Authority: 574
There are a lot of folks who dont trust the People. “The People” are seen as an aimless mass, wandering helplessly without the guidance of an enlightened leadership class. These folks dont have much use for the idea of individual liberty. Thats why Dave Kopels new book Aiming for Liberty is so important. ...3 days ago -
Re: The Treasure Hunter
TreasureNet Forum —
Authority: 200
Quote from: snake35 on Jun 19, 2009, 12:20:26 PM Well i read it. It was highly entertaining. How factual is another story, but most treasure tales are generously blown up. All in all I liked it. I have read Roatan Odyssey http://www.amazon.com/Roatan-Odyssey-Anne-Jennings-Brown/dp/0955760003 and highly recommend ...3 days ago -
Religion and Economic Development
Organizations and Markets —
Authority: 516
| Peter Klein | Thanks to Tyler for calling my attention to Davide Cantoni’s job-market paper, “The Economic Effects of the Protestant Reformation: Testing the Weber Hypothesis in the German Lands”: Many theories, most famously Max Weber’s essay on the ‘Protestant ethic,’ have hypothesized that ...3 days ago -
Recommended Reading for December 4
FWD/Forward —
Authority: 648
This is the “Anna is tired” edition of Recommended Reading, where I link you to posts contributors have made elsewhere: abby jean: What is ableist language and why should you care? at Bitch Blogs Emo: A hip way to police emotional expression at Bitch Blogs Ouyang_Dan: The Public Consumption of Britney at ...3 days ago -
Obama the Nixonian?
Weekly Standard Blog —
Authority: 156
Thats the theme of Peter Beinarts latest essay in Time : The best precedent for all this is what Nixon did in the late Vietnam years. For roughly two decades, the U.S. had been trying to contain "communism" — another ominous, elastic noun that encompassed a multitude of movements and regimes. But Vietnam proved ...4 days ago -
China Demographics Because They Matter.
China Law Blog —
Authority: 580
Bill Russo , China car expert extraordinaire, has been running an excellent series of posts on Chinas car market and he just hit the lucky number 8 and final one and this one really got my attention. It is entitled, " TREND #8: China’s Rapidly Changing Demographics and Growing Demand in Lower Tier Cities, " and its ...4 days ago -
Monterey Memories by Gail Gaymer Martin
Squirrel's Treehouse —
Authority: 112
Heres another good book to tell you about: MONTEREY MEMORIES - Three novels by Gail Gaymer Martin set in the beautiful Monterey area in the central coast of California. The Barbour anthology includes the novels And Baby Makes Five, Garlic and Roses and Butterfly Trees. Book Description Walk the streets and ...4 days ago
