April 2009
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“In his April 18 New York Times op-ed, Harvard professor (and Bush adviser) Greg...”
– Robert Murphy
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Questions and answers about pirates and Somalia →
Somalia is capable of producing for itself; it’s just that poor governance and civil strife periodically get in the way. Unfortunately, the U.S. has done much more to foster that poor governance and fan that civil strife than to end them. The evidence of this goes all the way back to the 1970s, when, for reasons related to the Cold War, the Ford administration started sponsoring a brutal...
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Why Did Kitty Genovese Die? →
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“Poverty has no causes; wealth has causes.”
– Peter Bauer
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“It’s common to hear the rapid growth of economies like Singapore and Hong...”
– Brandon Berg
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Watch“More American Workers Outsourcing Own Jobs Overseas”
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Google Similar Images Search →
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“Property does not exist because there are laws, but laws exist because there is...”
– Frédéric Bastiat
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Murray Rothbard: The Sociology of the Ayn Rand... →
Some Randians emulated their leader by changing their names from Russian or Jewish to a presumably harder, tougher, more heroic Anglo-Saxon. Branden himself changed his name from Blumenthal; it is perhaps not a coincidence, as Nora Ephron has pointed out, that if the letters of the new name are rearranged, they spell, B-E-N-R-A-N-D, Hebrew for “son of Rand.” A Randian girl, with a...
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David Friedman: Auto Accidents, AIDS,... →
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“Chamberlain was perfectly aware how dangerous Hitler was – but he was also aware...”
– Roderick Long
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O roubo da Mona Lisa, em agosto de 1911, parecia... →
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Star crust is 10 billion times stronger than steel →
The crust of neutron stars is 10 billion times stronger than steel, according to new simulations. That makes the surface of these ultra-dense stars tough enough to support long-lived bulges that could produce gravitational waves detectable by experiments on Earth.
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Irã na década de 1970, antes da Revolução Islâmica →
There are a large number of pictures and videos out there that show a radically different country from the one today.
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Overestimating the Paradox of Choice →
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Lifehacker: Most Popular Free Windows Downloads of... →
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Mandolux wallpapers →
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A 64-year-old Swiss woman has reported the... →
This case of what is known as a supernumerary phantom limb (SPL) is a genuine head-scratcher. The upshot is that the woman can use the apparitional extremity to relieve very real itches on the cheek.
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“Married to the Eiffel Tower” →
A BBC documentary about Objectophilia, a fetish where a person feels sexual desires for inanimate objects such as bridges, fences, the Eiffel Tower, etc. (via Jason Kottke)
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The neuropsychology of zombies →
George Romero, the man behind “Night of the Living Dead,” may not be a neuroscientist, but he and the zombie-auteurs who followed him have an uncanny understanding of the brain works. (via aleatorio)
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WatchBraid foi lançado para PC hoje. Existe um demo para download.
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Did Lack of Regulation Cause the Financial Crisis? →
You may recall that as the crisis initially unfolded, there was a reflexive reaction on the part of many to blame deregulation, without presenting any evidence for that position.
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“He’s more likable than Bush. He’s more articulate than Bush. But when it comes...”
– Roderick Long
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“The study raised new questions about the teaching... →
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The Cult of the Amateur →
De Andrew Keen, indicado pelo Paulo Justus.
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