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By now you've read about the interesting information from the Climatic Research Unit that has recently been made public. Here, though, are three pieces you may not have seen.
Two months ago, Patrick J. Michaels warned that CRU seemed to have "lost or destroyed" much of the key ...
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Mel Brooks and Carl Reiner. " The 2000 Year Old Man: The Complete History" is in stores today .
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Cute article comparing Marvin, a random USC freshman, with Matt Barkley, USC's freshman quarterback.
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NPR-- NPR!-- discovers that markets aren't the cause of the problems in our health-care system and that the currently proposed liegislation won't fix them. Stephen Spruill at National Review Online cracks :
Democrats have accused conservatives of spreading fear and misinformation ...
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Scott Beaulier and Pete Boettke :
Of course, our call for debt repudiation is not a new one. Like many good ideas in economics, Adam Smith was there long before us. “When it becomes necessary for a state to declare itself bankrupt ... a fair, open, and avowed bankruptcy ... is both least ...
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. . . that's how you fix the K-12 schools. It's no mystery. If you don't believe me, read about Leroy Anderson Elementary School in San Jose and listen to Charles Weis, superintendent of schools in Santa Clara, CA : “We know what needs to be done; we know how to do it.”
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" Keep the Car Running ". Live, Ottawa, 10/14/07.
Dave Grohl said that " he listens to the song every morning when he wakes up ". So there.
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A lot of good advice here . Samples:
"Show your passion for helping your customers solve problems - and talk to them like you talk to your friends. A real, enthusiastic, human voice is every small business's edge" — Andy Wibbels, AndyWibbels.com
"Don’t start a ...
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In fact, accordingn to Gene Weingarten he was really, really unfunny .
There are worse qualities in a president.
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Excellent . Includes the stellar, "I will not gloat over my enemies predicament before killing them."
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"Mind-Boggling" might be a bit strong. But "entertaining" and "surprising" would be fine .
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Johns Hopkins faculty outline mini-courses on various topics .
Includes "How These Things Work: Business Management Writ Large". I'd skip Berle and Means, but the Mokyr, Hayek, and Chandler volumes are good for autodidacts or anybody else.
Link via Metafilter .
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. . . is "interval" or high-intensity training .
It might even help reduce heart disease and Type II diabetes .
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From the U.K. Telegraph : "Featuring quotes and interesting facts, we list the world's 20 oldest continually-inhabited cities ."
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Forbes analysis using four factors: violent crime, workplace fatality rate, traffic death rate, and natural disaster risk. Minneapolis-St. Paul wins and Miami-Fort Lauderdale loses.
Surprising to me was the city that ranked worst on the workplace fatality rate: Indianapolis.
