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• Wilhelm Ropke: Swiss Localist, Global Economist (Library of Modern Thinkers): John Zmirak

  
  The Ebooks Review — Authority: 129
  Editorial Reviews Review “John Zmirak’s Wilhem Röpke…rises toward literature.” — National Review, November 19, 2001 Wilhelm Röpke is probably the most unjustly neglected economist and social critic of the twentieth century. Exiled by Hitler’s regime, Röpke was a passionate critic of socialism ...
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• Emanuel Derman at Bloomberg

  
  bottlerocketscience — Authority: 131
  On Fisher Black, plus Spinoza, Keyness insight into Newton, and the difference between models and theories. Key line: "Intuition is a merging of the understander with the understood."
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• Solebury School’s Creative Thinkers Book Series features Pulitzer Prize-winning author Chris Hedges

  
  The Intelligencer Now — Authority: 504
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• Immanuel Kants Critique of Aesthetic Judgement

  
  bottlerocketscience — Authority: 131
  "The Drastically Condensed Awesome Version" Its a hell of a lot better to watch Douglas Wolk explain this in five minutes while showing slides of, viz. Wolverine with a severed ear on a claw, than it is to read Kant in translation or, God forbid, the original, which is written in the kind of philosophical German ...
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• Exploring Religion, Shaped by the Enlightenment

  
  Through Your Body: — Authority: 131
  By PETER S. STEINFELS Why can’t religion and the Enlightenment be friends? What’s that, you say? They were friends? Why didn’t anyone tell us? Well, David Sorkin has. A professor of history and Jewish studies at the University of Wisconsin , he argues in a new study that religion and the Enlightenment were ...
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• If something is fun then it must be bad…

  
  Spooncraft — Authority: 434
  Gamers seem to follow the mob mentality more than most sub-groups in modern society. You could do (and I’m sure there are) a case study on how gamers innately become instant followers when thrust into a large group similar to how prey animals panic and stampede when there’s danger or in this case – change.The ...
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• Visual Ambassador’s Leadership Points

  
  Visual Ambassador — Authority: 127
  1) Change the idea people have of “creatives” by creating a new model of leadership. 2) Don’t push, lead. 3) Managers have employees, leaders have followers. 4) Skill and attitude is essential. Authority is not. Authority can get in the way. 5) Updated and relevant companies are hiring younger and younger. ...
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• Johan Scharffenberg

  
  Wilson Revolution Unplugged — Authority: 133
  Seven score years ago today, Johan Scharffenberg was born. Scharffenberg was active in 1905 for the republican cause in the Kingdom of Norway, but at the end of World War II he was behind a move to give more powers to the King.
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• How important is animal life to you?

  
  http://diddy.name — Authority: 169
  Nice Guy Wrote in a previous question: “Matt has basically stated that animals are equally important as humans. I’m sorry, but no animals life has as much importance or relevance as that of a human. For one to think that an animals life is just as important as his own is absurd. Can anyone possibly believe that ...
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• The Lies Keep Rolling

  
  American Conservative Daily — Authority: 503
  Liberals who email me think they are great and deep thinkers. They aren’t, but they think they are. You can also tell that very few of them actually read what I write. Most of them, it seems, are sent a note from one of their equally misinformed comrades and told to just email me claiming that I am wrong or that ...
  5 days ago

• Teams that relate, create

  
  Visual Ambassador — Authority: 127
  Today’s marketing is about engaging with the audience and delivering products and services with stories that connect. We need to be part of a team that relates and then spreads the stories that get others to notice the trends. All you need is the desire. Take the initiative and make things happen. The organization ...
  6 days ago

• What Shaun White and Snowboarding Can Teach You About Innovation

  
  Endless Innovation — Authority: 112
  One of the best articles that Ive read about innovation this week actually had absolutely nothing at all to do with business innovation -- at least on the surface. Hannah Karp of the Wall Street Journal recently took a closer look at When Snowboarders Baffle the Judges . Faced with the prospect of judges that are ...
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• Pearltrees: A Design Interface for Remapping the Web

  
  Family Learning Center — Authority: 161
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• CKFree push leverages social networking apps (DMNews)

  
  Stompernet SEO Course — Authority: 166
  Calvin Klein and perfume company COTY are using an increased amount of social media and Internet marketing to promote CKFree, a cologne aimed at men ages 18 to 34 who identify themselves as independent, modern thinkers.
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• Satan, the great motivator

  
  Stupidica — Authority: 174
  Satan, the great motivator The curious economic effects of religion By Michael Fitzgerald  |  November 15, 2009What makes economies grow? It’s a question that has occupied thinkers for centuries. Most of us would tick off things like education levels, openness to trade, natural resources, and political ...
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• Is art whatever you can get away with?

  
  Visual Ambassador — Authority: 127
  http://www.soulpancake.com/view_post/1465593/is-art-whatever-you-can-get-away-with.html “I like money on the wall. Say you were going to buy a $200,000 painting. I think you should take that money, tie it up, and hang it on the wall. That way, when someone visits you, the first thing they would see is the money on ...
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• Brahman and the Atman or God and the Soul

  
  Ephemeral Thoughts — Authority: 124
  Note – When I started this post I had an idea of what I wanted to say and where the post was going. Then I got sidetracked by real life stuff and lost my train of thought. The ending might be more abrupt than I intended. What is a soul? What is the relation of the soul to the All? These are the questions that ...
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• The Sleazy Advocacy of a Leading “Liberal Hawk”

  
  Count Us Out — Authority: 153
  “Here we have yet another example of one of America’s most Serious and respected “experts” advocating various policies while maintaining huge, undisclosed financial and personal interests in his advocacy.  He was given access to every major media outlet virtually on demand to do so — the NYT, The ...
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• On Power and Politics

  
  Wilson Revolution Unplugged — Authority: 133
  The American Conservative reruns a review of Daniel J. Mahoneys Bertrand de Jouvenel: The Conservative Liberal and the Illusions of Modernity . From the review: Jouvenel introduces the startling notion, later amplified, that the modern democratic state is potentially the most dangerous regime that has ever ...
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• Daniel Pink talks TED

  
  Visual Ambassador — Authority: 127
  In December Daniel Pink has a new book coming out called Drive: The Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us. In a TED talk from this summer in Oxford, Dan overviews some of the key ideas in the new book. This talk will make you (re-)think about work, management, and what motivates you — and those you work with ...
  2 weeks ago

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