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At the entrance to Treece, something strange happens: Mountains appear on the horizon. Except they’re not really mountains. They’re mounds of toxic stone. Gray, treeless monuments to the town’s more profitable past. (nytimes.com)
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Why Misdemeanors Aren’t So Minor: Too often the criminal justice system is pronouncing people guilty without evidence, lawyers, or a chance to plead their case. (slate.com)
A tale of two narratives: Conservatives have the founders' story; liberals have the arc of history. Which will prevail? (articles.latimes.com)
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What the history of fracking tells us about our short-sighted R&D system. (slate.com)
How One Man's Flaming Water Fired Up a Battle Between Texas and the EPA (dallasobserver.com)
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For the last 10 years, New Zealand has provided a laboratory for many of the educational theories that have become increasingly popular among would-be reformers in the United States in recent years, most notably charter schools and vouchers. (nytimes.com)
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Both Adam Smith and Joseph Schumpeter, defenders of capitalism as the source of “universal opulence”, see a road leading from capitalism to the disenfranchisement of the worker and the vaulting of the elite. (rick.bookstaber.com)
While saving the world’s threatened languages may seem informed more by nostalgia than need, researchers say each tongue may include unique concepts with practical value. (miller-mccune.com)
“Knowing” often serves as a crutch for “thinking,” suggests the author of “Liberal Arts at the Brink” in this essay. That can have bad consequences when we accept those shortcuts in our leadership. (miller-mccune.com)
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What Are The Limits Of Literary License? : We often apply a kind of double standard to the truth, depending on the perceived seriousness of the subject matter (npr.org)
No society could, naturally, live for any length of time unless it possessed an economy of some sort; but previously to our time no economy has ever existed that, even in principle, was controlled by markets. (taodesigns.tripod.com)
The End of the Maze: How the rodent labyrinth fell out of favor. (slate.com)
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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)
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)
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)
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)
Perceptual systems able to symbolize themselves — like minds — can’t be explained just by understanding the parts that compose them. (sciencenews.org)
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)
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)
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)
Ten years on, have we learned the lesson from Enron yet? Pretending we'll be wealthier just makes us poorer. (seattlepi.com)
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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