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Alan Robock: 20 reasons why geoengineering may be a bad idea (pdf)

Bull. Atom Sci., Vol. 64, No. 2, p. 14-18 (2008)

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“Traditional” marriage or a break with tradition? | The Immanent Frame

The establishment of monogamy required the Church to deny that procreation was central to the definition of marriage. In fact, one of Christianity’s major innovations was its insistence that a marriage remained valid even if the couple could not reprodu

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Norman Nie and Saar Golde: Does Education Really Make You Smarter?

even though education has increased considerably through the decades, and even though education is correlated with verbal ability, verbal ability has stayed practically constant over time

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Gilberto Gil's talk at Google Zeitgeist - Joi Ito's Web

we offer society the oppotunity to achieve radical change, step by step, using the day to day inputs of new industrial and social technologies, without the earth quaques of classical revolutionary action

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In Switzerland, they had brotherly love; they had 500 years of democracy and peace, and what did that produce? « Quantum of Wantum

Here you have a group of bioethicists, with drastically differing views, and they attempt to work out (in a public way) what their moral intuitions and conclusions were on a few key topics with regard to plants.

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Michael Gecan: On Borrowed Time. Urban decline moves to the suburbs | Boston Review

These three major improvements were extremely costly, requiring sustained financial support for fifteen years or more. But each long-term investment, once it hit critical mass, also generated extraordinary value.

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Cycling | Four wheels bad... | Economist.com

Cycling England, a government-funded outfit that promotes pedal power, will see its budget increased from £10m to £60m by 2009. The cash will be spent on connecting schools to the national cycle-lane network, training for children and propaganda

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Seth's Blog: Henry Ford and the source of our fear

This is the central conceit of our economy. People in productive industries get paid a lot even though they could likely be replaced by someone else working for less money. This is why we’re insecure.

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Shankar Vedantam - A Dose of Libertarian Paternalism - washingtonpost.com

we don't believe you can just have markets and then declare victory. It is legitimate to be paternalistic in terms of steering people in directions that will increase the likelihood they will do well."

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A chorus of booze (Amis on drinking, Ch. Hitchens, ed) | New Humanist

Not even hashish has ever come close to gathering about itself such a weight and variety of cultural endeavour, inspiring so many inventive and variegated ways to be mixed and presented to the enthusiast.

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Not Your Father's FCC | The Nation

there may be no new deals until we democratize the media

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Arts and the city | cafebabel.com

a special issue on European arts and the city.

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Deyan Sudjic on the city of the future | Art & Architecture | guardian.co.uk Arts

Deyan Sudjic, director of the Design Museum and author of a major new report. extremely recyclable

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The Monkey Cage: The Political Valence of DNA Testing

I don’t fully understand the science – but more importantly, neither will our politicians, judges, regulators, police officers, doctors, and educators. (emph. arthegall)

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The Militarization of the World's Urban Peripheries - Worldpress.org

the recruitment ability of the insurgents can be reduced through the expansion of market logic, "by 'gentrifying' city centers and creating business parks...

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