Archive for March, 2008
Tuesday, March 25th, 2008
By Jason D ScorseMany critics of economists contend that because people aren't rational, economics has little predictive power. This is wrong for two reasons. First, people act relatively rational in many (if not most) circumstances; second, the deviations from rationality are predictable. As one of my professors at Berkeley used ...
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Tuesday, March 25th, 2008
French President Nicolas Sarkozy said Tuesday that he cannot rule out the possibility he might boycott the opening ceremony of the Beijing Olympics if China continues its crackdown in Tibet.Read the full story
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Monday, March 24th, 2008
Ethan Zuckerman: I was thrilled to get an email from Nicholas Kayser-Bril earlier today, introducing me to his research with Gilles Bruno on media attention. The pair...Read the full story
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Monday, March 24th, 2008
From the it was only a matter of time department. Guns, pilots and planes don't mix.Read the full story
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Monday, March 24th, 2008
Interesting, but will it turn out to be all hype.Read the full story
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Monday, March 24th, 2008
Anti-war agit-prop. I like it. Is that McCain?
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Monday, March 24th, 2008
The Wall Street Journal today writes about the economic resurgence in Hayfork, California created by companies like Jefferson Forest Products, a sustainable logging company acquired a couple of years ago by Upstream21. Upstream21 is a holding company that buys small to medium-sized businesses and operates them in a socially responsible ...
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Monday, March 24th, 2008
Protesters disrupted the Beijing Olympics flame-lighting ceremony in Ancient Olympia on Monday and a Tibetan woman covered in fake blood briefly blocked the path of the torchbearer.Read the full story
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Sunday, March 23rd, 2008
Over a quarter of the Bison in Yellowstone National Park have been killed aka culled this year - in part due to Republican gamesmanship.Read the full story
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Sunday, March 23rd, 2008
roadside bomb killed four U.S. soldiers in Baghdad on Sunday, the military said, pushing the overall American death toll in the five-year war to at least 4,000. The grim milestone came on the same day that rockets and mortars pounded the U.S.-protected Green Zone, underscoring the fragile security situation ...
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