Monday, June 17, 2013
Category: History
Read full article at www.fivebooks.com
In the world before 1978, the group of rich developed nations was really quite small. There was Western Europe, the United States, Canada, Australia, Japan â€" and that’s it. Then in a very short period of time, from 1978 to 1991, there is a process that creates the globalised world that we’re now living in. [READ MORE]
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Sunday, June 16, 2013
Category: Science
Read full article at www.guardian.co.uk
Sequencing the human genome was such a major breakthrough, such huge news when the announcement of the first draft of the human genome was made back in 2001 and it feels as if that was about two minutes ago.
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Wednesday, June 12, 2013
Category: Crime
Read full article at japandailypress.com
Former yakuza members make up 5% of Hayashi’s clientele and he divides them into three categories. There are the ones who are “forced” by their girlfriends who are worried about their reputation. [READ MORE]
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Tuesday, June 11, 2013
Category: America
Read full article at www.slate.com
Snowden is a 29-year-old high school dropout who trained for the Army Special Forces before an injury forced him to leave the military. His IT credentials are apparently limited to a few “computer” classes he took at a community college in order to get his high school equivalency degree—courses that he did not complete. [READ MORE]
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Tuesday, June 11, 2013
Category: Science
Read full article at www.avclub.com
Chagnon sees himself as a victim of academic political correctness before there was a term for it. He casually labels all his enemies as “Marxists,” though when he admits to being confused as to why Marxists are so threatened by “sociobiology,” he fails to consider that he’s using the preferred buzzword of reactionaries who don’t like academia. [READ MORE]
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Monday, June 10, 2013
Category: Finance
Read full article at isharesblog.com
With interest rates already low, the central banks are turning toward unconventional accommodative monetary policy such as quantitative easing, which has resulted in a dramatic increase in the monetary base levels and as a result, weaker local currencies. [READ MORE]
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Monday, June 10, 2013
Category: Art
Read full article at www.telegraph.co.uk
Chagall understood instinctively that to become a modern artist he had to abandon traditional perspective and assimilate the fractured geometrical planes of cubism into his work. But what he could not have known at that stage was that he was looking at feeble imitations of cubism, not the real thing. [READ MORE]
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Sunday, June 9, 2013
Category: America
Read full article at davidsimon.com
The question is not should the resulting data exist. It does. And it forever will, to a greater and greater extent. And therefore, the present-day question can’t seriously be this: Should law enforcement in the legitimate pursuit of criminal activity pretend that such data does not exist. [READ MORE]
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Sunday, June 9, 2013
Category: Science
Read full article at edge.org
The false dichotomy of the reproductive versus materialist debate is demonstrated by some of the debate′s strange twists and turns.
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