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Posted by Jim on 15/11/2009
International Year of Astronomy 2009 Posters ¦ simoncpage.com Lovely retro-inspired designs (tags: design art) Book Review - 'What the Dog Saw - And Other Adventures,' by Malcolm Gladwell - Review - NYTimes.com Pinker zings Gladwell: "An eclectic essayist is necessarily a dile ...
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Posted by Jim on 14/11/2009
Why Buy Homes At All? « Modeled Behavior I like the comment here from 'ao': "Why should homeowners buy a home as a bundle of consumption and investment goods rather than rent a home and invest traditional investments? In the long run, the asset value of a house owned by the occupa ...
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Posted by Jim on 12/11/2009
velorution » Blog Archive » The convinceables have been convinced "Paris is no Amsterdam either, but the Velib has been a success because DelaNoe has given a clear message to all Parisians that cycling was being made safe; many boulevards had the right hand lane transformed into a segregated ...
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Posted by Jim on 10/11/2009
The Jobless Rate for People Like You - Interactive Graphic - NYTimes.com Stunning infographic showing unemployment trends for different segments of the population. (tags: design inequality) The Berlin Wall: 20 Years Later - A Division Through Time - Interactive Feature - NYTimes.com (tags: photo ...
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Posted by Jim on 09/11/2009
Matthew Yglesias » The Senates the Thing "Its worth taking a moment to appreciate the fact that in a unicameral United States of America, we would now have passed both a comprehensive health care reform bill and also the most important piece of environmental legislation in the history of the ...
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