May 2009
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So maybe the slackers had it right after all →
In the cold glare of a recession, everything looks different: We’ve got no house to lose, no career to dash, no school-aged children in need of pricey Wii gaming systems.
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Como os neandertais foram extintos: nós devoramos... →
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“Foreign aid to Africa has turned the continent... →
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Deng Undone →
The year 2008 marked the 30th anniversary of the beginning of market reforms in China — and perhaps the third anniversary of their ending. Driven by a near obsession with economic growth, Beijing has extended the state’s reach into the economy.
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Wolfram Alpha →
Mais aqui: First Look at Wolfram Alpha’s Impressive (and Fun) Knowledge Computation. (via aleatorio)
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Why did the peoples of the New World fail to... →
“The general sequence of friction-reducing inventions is thought to have been runners, rollers, rollers held in place by guides, rollers held in place by guides and thickened on the ends to make them roll straighter, the wheel and axle, and from there it’s pretty much a straight shot to the Chevy Impala”.
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“Is there a formula — some mix of love, work, and... →
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Molecule of life emerges from laboratory slime →
“We don’t use any way-out scenarios - all the conditions are consistent with what we know about early Earth,” says Sutherland.
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Província chinesa obriga funcionários públicos a... →
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Guatemalan president accused of murder in video... →
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“We have to tell people that diamonds are... →
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“Be careful: in the last analysis, reality may be exactly what we think it is.”
– Alan Moore in What Is Reality? (via joaotenorio)
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“When the lights came up she tried in vain to roll... →
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“Foreign Body in the Eye” →
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‘Steep rise’ in Sri Lanka deaths →
At least 378 people have been killed by fierce shelling from the Sri Lankan army in the past 24 hours, a health official has told the BBC.
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The masterpiece that killed George Orwell →
In 1946 Observer editor David Astor lent George Orwell a remote Scottish farmhouse in which to write his new book, Nineteen Eighty-Four. Robert McCrum tells the compelling story of Orwell’s torturous stay on the island where the author, close to death and beset by creative demons, was engaged in a feverish race to finish the book.
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“The Real Culture War Is Over Capitalism” →
Via Roger Kimball: A specter is haunting America — the specter of freedom. Even as President Obama proceeds with his efforts to impoverish the country, the productive classes of society are waking from their dogmatic slumbers and banding together.
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“Thomas Jefferson wrote many stirring passages about the natural rights of man....”
– Roderick T. Long
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Tata's Nano Home: The company behind world's... →
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8-Bit Fatalities →
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If China loses faith, the dollar will collapse →
Emerging economies such as China and Russia are calling for alternatives to the dollar as a reserve currency. The trigger is the US Federal Reserve’s policy of expanding the money supply to prop up the banking system and its over-indebted households.
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Green ethnic cleansing →
Removal of aboriginal human beings from their homeland to create a commodified wilderness is a deliberate charade.
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I.F. Stone era agente soviético →
When new information about Americans who had cooperated with the Soviet KGB began to emerge in the 1990s, no individual case generated as much controversy as that of the journalist I.F. Stone, who had long been installed in the pantheon of left-wing heroes as a symbol of rectitude and a teller of truth to power before his death in 1989.
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According to a new book, the painter Vincent van... →
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"What laws did Ferris Bueller break on his day... →
Perfect mix of 80s nostalgia and online criminal justice research prowess.
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Afghanistan's only pig quarantined in flu fear →
The pig is a curiosity in Muslim Afghanistan, where pork and pig products are illegal because they are considered irreligious, and has been in quarantine since Sunday after visitors expressed alarm it could spread the new flu strain.
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“The Belgian sinologist Pierre Ryckmans (pen-name “Simon Leys”) was once asked...”
– John Derbyshire, na The New Criterion
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“Don’t Know Much About Capitalism” →
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“The Ferris Bueller Fight Club Theory” →
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Ron Paul sobre a gripe suína →
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“Life isn’t divided into genres. It’s a horrifying, romantic, tragic, comical,...”
– Alan Moore (via affremblequotes, aleatorio)
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“After eight years of watching conservatives blow trillions of dollars and...”
– Tom Woods, via Roderick Long
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