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By the late 1990s, the Dow stopped being an indicator of how our economy was doing. Instead, it became the driving force. (nytimes.com)

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The character of Zinnia Koss was made up more than 20 years ago. But from cradle to college, the junk mail keeps on coming. (articles.latimes.com)

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f you want to know what’s going to happen next, it might seem natural to ask an expert — but when it comes to accurate predictions, it turns out that one thing you should stay away from is expert opinion. (articles.boston.com)

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Two or more people cannot use the same pair of socks at the same time and in the same respect, but they can use the same idea—or if not the same idea, ideas with the same content. (theamericanconservative.com)

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Perceptual systems able to symbolize themselves — like minds — can’t be explained just by understanding the parts that compose them. (sciencenews.org)

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George Soros draws on his past to argue that the global economic crisis is as significant, and unpredictable, as the end of communism. (readersupportednews.org)

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Adam Smith’s concern for fairness over and above economic efficiency was behind the vehemence of his opposition to capitalist arguments for policies that would protect or promote producer profits. (philosophersbeard.org)

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Occupy Wall Street and the Arab Spring Expose the Limits of the Town Square Test (miller-mccune.com)

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Degrowth theory, whose supporters push policies to reduce economic activity and end our obsession with GDP, is gaining momentum in Europe. (miller-mccune.com)

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Why cities may be the best cure for our planet’s growing pains. (ngm.nationalgeographic.com)

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Ten years on, have we learned the lesson from Enron yet? Pretending we'll be wealthier just makes us poorer. (seattlepi.com)

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Rescuing lived space (and lived time) from a reduction to mathematics and mathematized physics (philosophynow.org)

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The London River Park is a proposed floating green space on the Thames, but is it really a 'public' amenity? (guardian.co.uk)

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Advertising Implants False Memories (m.wired.com)

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Yafimau was thrust into a dark journey around the globe that had him, at one point, locked in a hotel room for a month in Quito, Ecuador, waiting for surgeons to cut out an organ. (bloomberg.com)

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Meet the anthropologist, activist, and anarchist who helped transform a hapless rally into a global protest movement. (businessweek.com)

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Resistance Is Futile: We won’t stop the rising tide of infections until we develop a new business model to fight them. (theatlantic.com)

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Could democratic societies have a unique susceptibility to tyranny? by DirtyDan674in philosophy

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We could do worse than to wonder whether Progress is not doing as well as advertised, and perhaps to take exceptional measures to arrest and reverse any decline. (nationalreview.com)

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In all, Dr. Barken has spent two hours on this patient and his family, for which Medicare pays him $175. But Medicare pays the cardiologist $244 for a 15-minute echocardiogram and the radiologist $299 for a CAT scan that took 10 minutes to read. (miller-mccune.com)

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Once again, the fire department is making cuts with computer models based on data of questionable validity, releasing incomplete and misleading statistics when it suits the department’s purposes, and refusing to release raw data so that their claims can be verified by anyone outside the department. (nypost.com)

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He would give a high-prescribing doctor about $1,500 to speak. And following that speech, Webb would see the speaking doctor write an additional $100,000 to $200,000 in prescriptions of his company's drug. (npr.org)

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In the modern web, Google and Facebook are the feudal lords and people are the peasants — at least when it comes to control of the photos, comments, 'likes' and other data that each person posts online. (zdnet.co.uk)

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Is There Such a Thing as Agro-Imperialism? (nytimes.com)

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The ultimate crop rotation: Wealthy nations outsource crops to Ethiopia's farmlands (washingtonpost.com)

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