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Adam Thierer, Infrastructure Socialist
I recently came across this old blog post, one of my first efforts to come up with a coherent libertarian theory of infrastructure policy. At the time, Verizon was busy tearing up peoples? lawns to make room for its new FiOS network?in many cases without the permission of the affected homeowners. I asked what the ...
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Decoding the ‘DNA of Patriarchy’ in Muslim family laws — Ziba Mir-Hosseini and Zainah Anwar
MAY 23 — Contemporary Muslim family laws and practices are increasingly under attack for their unjust treatment of women. At the heart of unequal gender rights in Muslim laws lie the twin concepts of qiwamah and wilayah, which are commonly understood as having mandated men’s authority over women, and as justifying and institutionalising a ...
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What Is Causality?
[Jim Manzi]Gabriel,Your verydeep post that, in passing, requested my comment was fascinating. My family thanks you for the weekend I justspent staring off into space.You open with this:Sampling error? ...
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The Creating Brain: reaching Xanadu
Is there anything different about the brains of extraordinary creative geniuses like Michelangelo, Coleridge or Mozart? World renowned psychiatrist and doctor of English Renaissance Literature Dr Nancy Andreasen unravels the 'creative brain' and explores how we can foster creativity in ourselves and throughout our society.
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The 1 Percent Solution
Seattle—Nick Hanauer toddled through his early years in a cramped Greenwich Village apartment. His mother waited tables at the Bitter End. His father worked low-level jobs on Wall Street and as an editor at a publishing house. When Nick was 5, his folks left New York to join a family pillow-making business in the Pacific Northwest. They raised their three sons in a three-bedroom house in the ...
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KITT Is Coming: Dragon Drive! Lets You Dictate Texts On The Road
For decades, man has dreamed of speaking into thin air and having computers fulfill his every wish. Despite the potential downsides of living in such a world -- as seen in movies like 2001 or Terminator or I, Robot -- the fantasy lives on. As proof, we need look no further than the 1980s TV series Knight Rider or, more recently, commercials...
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GOP to modernity: Stop
For House Republicans, the less we know about our country and our planet, the better
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Diversify Baby, Diversify!
CHICAGO, April 27, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Zacks Investment Research presents their newest list of stocks featured in their weekly Research Wizard article, which describes how to profit from stock market ...
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Another Week of GW News, May 20, 2012 [A Few Things Ill Considered]
Logging the Onset of The Bottleneck Years This weekly posting is brought to you courtesy of H. E. Taylor . Happy reading, I hope you enjoy this week's Global Warming news roundup Read the rest of this post... | Read the comments on this post...
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The 100% Economy: Why the U.S. Needs a Strong Middle Class to Thrive
Nick Hanauer is the kind of innovator and venture capitalist expected to power the country's next wave of growth. So why does he insist that only the fading middle class can rescue America? Reuters SEATTLE--Nick ...
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