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America’s worst colleges
Link. Big GOP donors.
Lion Zombie Document Mystery Solved
WSJ: Apple to abandon Google Maps on iOS later this year
Link. if google doesnt do their own app I am screwed. Apple is incompetent at this.
Don’t cry for Stanford undergrads
Link. University of Phoenix though, cry for them.
Tianamen is not forgotten – Hong Kong
Vote Republican – because they’re insane
Greg Ip’s risk hairball
Link. explaining treasury rates
What divides America?
Link. The big question divides. What do the strong owe the weak?
What happens when psychiatric hospitals disappear
Link. Canary in the coal mine.
NASA Gets a Present from the Dark Side
Link. NSA
Chinese market numerology
Obama’s 33% reelection odds
Link. I for one welcome our ..gyach.
Ontological commitments and the multiverse
Link. It is intellectual cowardice to discount unsettling theories because they are … unsettling. “We don’t count universes, we count elements of the theory, and this one has a quantum state and a Hamiltonian. A tiny number!”.
Europe will turn into a German empire (Soros, Salmon, et al)
Link. That should concentrate minds. If, that is, they could possibly be any more concentrated.
“This is, in a nutshell, the bet I have with Joe Weisenthal. He, like Soros, says that Europe — including Greece — will become a German empire, where the Germans reluctantly dole out a stream of transfer payments to a resentful periphery. I’m taking the other side of that bet, because I think it’s politically impossible, in a union of democratic nations.”
GOP economics: from weak to the strong
Link. this is fundamental. wealth is god’s reward to the strong
Matrox Thunderbolt dock turns MacBooks into desktops for $249
Link. long time coming!
android sales off
Link. user complaints familiar
Front Door
Link. ESP after a scary movie. silence of the lambs for me
I’m Not Clubbable – krugman
Link. a burrowing badger with sharp teeth
As Vatican Manages Crisis, Book Details Infighting – NYTimes.com
Link. vatican bank has a laundering problem?
‘Our Eyes Have Adjusted’: Here’s What That Means
Link. sure have
Is Arsenic the Worst Chemical in the World? | Wired Science | Wired.com
Link. private wells poisonous
Monday Note Exclusive: The Walmart Garden Smartphone
Link. dirty trick. he had me going.
Japan Arrests Fugitive Wanted in 1995 Gas Attack
Link. she made sarin gas
DirecTV Chairman: ‘It’s Hard to See [Apple TV] Obsoleting Our Technology’
Link. Ripe for disruption.
The unknowability of everything about government bookkeeping
Link. not bad summary.
the story of the napalm girl
Link. Phuc. I thought she died. The truth is beyond imagination.
Americans don’t recognize austerity
Link. predictable
42% sea level rise from irrigation?
Link. probably not
half US “believes” humans created yr 8000BC
Link. 21st and 14th centuries coexisting
Are We in the Midst of a Sixth Mass Extinction?
Link. humans on the list
Psychiatrists Weigh In on Hernandez and Patz Case Confession
Link. likely a false confession
dragon space
Link. private-public partnership. this is very good news.
arctic CO2 at 400
Link. tracking the Permian extinction
programming a major legal precedent: API not copyright protected
1937
Link. not lesser any more?
humor in china
Link. an excellent joke
technology creates robocall explosion
Link. largely fraudulent now. google voice tech only fix
mental health system failed Seattle victims
Link. family sought help desperately
Iraq oil output almost record levels
In Economic Deluge, a World That’s Unable to Bail Together – NYTimes.com
Link. German interest rate: 0.0001
Real-life Hunger Games in America
Link. what do the strong owe the weak
Aid Workers in Afghanistan
Link. sounds like one heck of an operation
china’ rulers defend corruption
Link. “China has no way of entirely suppressing corruption without sending the whole country into pain and confusion”. getting nervous
China Is Said to Detain Official Spying for U.S.
Link. Clinton: “It has never happened that an established pre-eminent power and a rising power have been able to find a way to not only coexist, but cooperate. We intend to make history with our relationship with China”
India’s New ‘English Only’ Generation
Link. but English is also Indian
U.S. Liaisons Restored To Outpost In Pakistan – NYTimes.com
Link. hellish posting
Russian Church Supports Assad
Link. For Syrian Christians Assad is protector
South Korean Democracy Campaigner Is Detained in China
Link. a brave man in a dangerous place