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David Brooks, "The Neural Buddhists" - New York Times
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Russia Threatens Retaliation After Georgia Says It Fired on Planes - NYTimes.com
Worrisome signs of escalating conflict over South Ossetia after reports that Georgian bombing raids caused Russian casualties; Russian bombers allegedly have retaliated with attacks on Ge...
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How about a little sewage in your water glass?
Orange County has just set up a system which allows wastewater to be filtered, purified, and then re-injected back into the local aquifer. Permalink: http://snipr.com/3e8gj
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Summer Express: 101 Simple Meals Ready in 10 Minutes or Less - New York Times
With a little imagination and some swift moves, you can turn any dish on this list into a meal that not only will be better than takeout, but won’t heat you out of the house.
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At Social Site, Only the Businesslike Need Apply - NYTimes.com
The four-year-old site is decidedly antisocial: only last fall, after what executives describe as a year of intense debate, did the company ask members to add photos to their profiles.
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British Film on Global Warming Draws Rebuke - NYTimes.com
A controversial British documentary called “The Great Global Warming Swindle” unfairly portrays several scientists and the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, Britain’s telev...
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Appealing to Bloggers’ Influence, Gore Asks for Help in Promoting Energy Challenge - NYTimes.com
The best use of his talent and experience, he said, is “to focus on trying to enlarge the political space” within which politicians can address the climate crisis.
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http://www.nytimes.com/2008/07/20/us/politics/20netroot.html
New Interest in Vertical Farms for Urban Areas - NYTimes.com
Despite its potential problems, the idea of bringing food closer to the city is gaining traction among pragmatists and dreamers alike.
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http://www.nytimes.com/2008/07/15/science/15farm.html
Bob Herbert - Madness and Shame - Op-Ed - NYTimes.com
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http://www.nytimes.com/2008/07/22/opinion/22herbert.html?ex=1374465600
Lure of Big Paycheck Tugs at Graduates Considering Public Service - NYTimes.com
A prominent education professor at Harvard has begun leading “reflection” seminars at three highly selective colleges, which he hopes will push undergraduates to think more deeply abo...
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http://www.nytimes.com/2008/06/23/education/23careers.html
Unboxed - If You’re Open to Growth, You Tend to Grow - NYTimes.com
People with a growth mind-set tend to demonstrate the kind of perseverance and resilience required to convert life’s setbacks into future successes.
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Trying to Build a Greener Britain, Home by Home - NYTimes.com
In an era when movie stars build $5 million eco-mansions, families here have made their old Victorian houses eco-friendly, too.
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Do Angry Clinton Women Love McCain? - NYTimes.com
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More on the future of Iraq's oil
In case you missed this bit from last month (I did), a number of no-bid contracts have been put in place to bring US oil giants (plus BP and Total) back to Iraq as "service" operators. An...
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As Web Traffic Grows, Crashes Take Bigger Toll - NYTimes.com
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The Urge to End It - Understanding Suicide - NYTimes.com
On the connection between the incidence of suicide and the availability of the means of suicide.
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Preoccupations - I Freed Myself From E-Mail’s Grip - NYTimes.com
Some great advice for an e-mail centric world. I really like this approach. Has some interesting KM implications. What better way to start conversations than to get out of the redundan...
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Not so fast, solar energy
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The Mundaneum Museum Honors the First Concept of the World Wide Web - NYTimes.com
The Mundaneum Museum honors the first concept of a world wide wonder, sketched out by Paul Otlet in 1934 as a global network of “electric telescopes.”
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The Era of Green Noise - NYTimes.com
Some environmentalists fear that the public might begin to ignore their message before any meaningful change can be accomplished. For them, it’s a time to reassess strategies and stream...
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The Minimalist - The Minimalist - Putting Meat in Its Place - NYTimes.com
We have been talking about decreasing meat, and increasing veggies in its place at our dinner table. Some interesting thoughts on the subject here.
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When Tech Innovation Has a Social Mission - New York Times
A new style of “hybrid” technology organization is emerging that is trying to define a path between the nonprofit world and traditional for-profit ventures.
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What's Online - Keep It Short, Make It Instant - messaging less disrupive than email
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Thomas Hart Benton - Painting to Sound the Alarm in the Wake of Pearl Harbor
Clipping this mainly for the great slideshow of hard-to-find Benton images from the months following the US entry into WWII.
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On Carbon, Tax and Don’t Spend - New York Times
if we want to reduce carbon emissions, then we should follow Denmark’s example: tax the industrial emission of carbon and return the revenue to industry through subsidies for research a...
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Study Finds Big Social Factor in Quitting Smoking - New York Times
People may help many more than just themselves by quitting: quitting can have a ripple effect prompting an entire social network to break the habit.
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At One University, Tobacco Money Is a Secret - New York Times
the contract, a copy of which The New York Times obtained under the Virginia Freedom of Information law, is highly unusual and raises questions about how far universities will go in searc...
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Eating Junk Food May Help Stressed-Out Monkeys Cope - New York Times
Once these foods were available, the low-status monkeys promptly developed an appetite. They began eating significantly more calories than their social superiors.
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How Are Humans Unique? - NYTimes.com
Two young children pretending together that a stick is a horse have thus taken their first step on the road not just to Oz but also toward inhabiting human institutional reality.
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Mindfulness Meditation, Based on Buddha’s Teachings, Gains Ground With Therapists - NYTimes.com
Since mindfulness meditation may have different effects on different mental struggles, the challenge for its proponents will be to specify where it is most effective — and soon, given h...
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Op-Ed Columnist - Cult of Deception - Op-Ed - NYTimes.com
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Dumb as We Wanna Be - New York Times
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Want to Be My Boyfriend? Please Define - New York Times
This is truly depressing. Reminds me of Fear of Flying, except without the fun stuff and the sense of humor.
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Phoenix Lander "Talks" to Twitterers
Article about how NASA's News Service Manager has been using Twitter to answer questions about the Phoenix Lander.
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http://www.nytimes.com/2008/05/31/science/space/31mars.html?_r=1&ref=us&oref=slogin
Filming ‘The Road’ - At the End of the World, Honing the Father-Son Dynamic - NYTimes.com
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Gen.Vang Pao's Last War - Communism in Southeast Asia - Hmong People - Laos - New York Times
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Op-Ed Columnist - Truth or Consequences - Op-Ed - NYTimes.com
What would a mythical, truth-telling presidential candidate say about the best energy policy for America?
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The Miracle Fruit, a Tease for the Taste Buds - NYTimes.com
A small red berry called miracle fruit temporarily rewires the way the palate perceives sour flavors, rendering lemons as sweet as candy.
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Diet soda is not good for you
Soda in general is not good for you.
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The Slow Life Picks Up Speed - New York Times
“The time is now ripe for trying to formalize this slow revolution,” Mr. Berthelsen, the founder of the World Institute of Slowness, an advocacy group based in Kristiansand, Norway, s...
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The Neural Buddhists - New York Times
My guess is that the atheism debate is going to be a sideshow. The cognitive revolution is not going to end up undermining faith in God, it’s going to end up challenging faith in the Bi...
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Kaizen, That Continuous Improvement Strategy, Finds Its Ideal Environment - New York Times
Given a performance measure, be it clicks, revenue or something entirely different, a disciplined process of experimentation and evaluation can lead to rapid improvements.
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Can You Become a Creature of New Habits? - New York Times
Brain researchers have discovered that when we consciously develop new habits, we create parallel synaptic paths, and even entirely new brain cells, that can jump our trains of thought on...
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For the Elderly, Being Heard About Life’s End - New York Times
Slow medicine encourages physicians to put on the brakes when considering care that may have high risks and limited rewards for the elderly.
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All of Inflation’s Little Parts - The New York Times
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A Shift in the Debate Over Global Warming - New York Times
A growing chorus of economists, scientists and students of energy policy are saying that whatever benefits the cap approach yields, it will be too little and come too late.
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Change We Can Stomach - New York Times
With the price of oil at more than $120 a barrel (up from less than $30 for most of the last 50 years), small and midsize nonpolluting farms, the ones growing the healthiest and best-tast...
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Lawmakers Push for Big Subsidies for Coal Process - New York Times
Even as Congressional leaders draft legislation to reduce greenhouse gases linked to global warming, a powerful roster of Democrats and Republicans is pushing to subsidize coal as the kin...
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Exercise Your Brain, or Else You’ll ... Uh ... - New York Times
“Every time you challenge your brain it will actually modify the brain,” he said. “We can indeed form new brain cells, despite a century of being told it’s impossible.”
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The Cognitive Age - New York Times
We’re moving into a more demanding cognitive age. In order to thrive, people are compelled to become better at absorbing, processing and combining information.
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Sorry, Boys, This Is Our Domain - New York Times
Research shows that among the youngest Internet users, the primary creators of Web content (blogs, graphics, photographs, Web sites) are not misfits resembling the Lone Gunmen of “The X...
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Daniel Gilbert - Happiness Researcher - New York Times
People who are clinically depressed often seem to lack the ability to reframe events. That suggests that if the rest of us didn’t have this, we might be depressed as well.
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You Are What You Grow - New York Times
One of these years, the eaters of America are going to demand a place at the table, and we will have the political debate over food policy we need and deserve.
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Why Bother? - New York Times
The Big Problem is nothing more or less than the sum total of countless little everyday choices, most of them made by us [...], and most of the rest of them made in the name of our needs ...
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It's a Game. No, It's an Ad. No, It's Advergame. - New York Times
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En Garde! Fight Foes Using a Controller Like a Sword - New York Times
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Do the Mash (Even if You Don’t Know All the Steps) - New York Times
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Envisioning the Next Chapter for Electronic Books - New York Times
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Company Will Monitor Phone Calls to Tailor Ads - New York Times
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It's a Flat World, After All
Only 30 years ago, if you had a choice of being born a B student in Boston or a genius in Bangalore or Beijing, you probably would have chosen Boston, because a genius in Beijing or Banga...
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http://www.nytimes.com/2005/04/03/magazine/03DOMINANCE.html?pagewanted=1
Racing Its Rivals, I.B.M. Risks Tripping Itself Up
The logic is to move up the economic ladder to more complex and more profitable tiers of the services industry, thus staying ahead of rivals offering less expensive services - Indian outs...
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Web Content by and for the Masses
The Internet's new phase will shift power away from old-line media and software companies while rapidly bringing about an age of computerized "augmentation" by blending the skills of tens...
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Why Newspapers Are Betting on Audience Participation
But with gloomy financial forecasts and declines in circulation, some papers are starting to see participatory journalism as their hope for reconnecting with their audiences.
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Profits, Not Jobs, on the Rebound in Silicon Valley
Changes in technology and business strategy are raising fundamental questions about the future of the valley, the nation's high technology heartland. In part, the change is driven by the ...
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To Reduce the Cost of Teenage Temptation, Why Not Just Raise the Price of Sin?
Teenagers, it turns out, are highly rational creatures in some ways. Budweisers and Marlboros are discretionary items, and their customers treat them as such. Gasoline consumption, by con...
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http://www.nytimes.com/2005/07/25/business/25consuming.html
A Way to Cut Fuel Consumption That Everyone Likes, Except the Politicians
Current gasoline prices are far too low, because they fail to reflect the environmental and foreign policy costs associated with gasoline consumption.
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Here's an Idea: Let Everyone Have Ideas
There's a fine line between individual genius and know-it-all arrogance. [...] It's time to invent a less top-down approach to innovation, to make it everybody's business to come up with ...
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Finding Happiness in the Pursuit
The struggle for a certain achievement may offer a peculiar reward all its own. Although many people seem quite goal-oriented [...] maybe it's not so much having the stuff that people rea...
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http://www.nytimes.com/2006/04/08/business/09instincts.html?_r=1&oref=slogin
Scan This Book!
Soon a book outside the library will be like a Web page outside the Web, gasping for air. Indeed, the only way for books to retain their waning authority in our culture is to wire their t...
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http://www.nytimes.com/2006/05/14/magazine/14publishing.html
The Opportunity Cost of Economics Education
It is that many of their professors may have only a tenuous grasp of [fundamental economic concepts], since they, too, took encyclopedic introductory courses, followed by advanced courses...
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What Baseball Can Teach Those Who Dream of Creating the Next Silicon Valley
trying to make some town into the next Silicon Valley by attracting the best scientists is rather like trying to start a new baseball team and turn it into the New York Yankees.
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From Ants to People, an Instinct to Swarm - New York Times
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Rethinking the Meat-Guzzler - New York Times
If Americans were to reduce meat consumption by just 20 percent it would be as if we all switched from a standard sedan — a Camry, say — to the ultra-efficient Prius.
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http://www.nytimes.com/2008/01/27/weekinreview/27bittman.html
Ending Famine, Simply by Ignoring the Experts
The secret of Malawi’s success: heavy subsidies for fertilizer, farmers say. The World Bank had pressed for their elimination
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