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November 02 2009

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Mattathiats Schwartz: The Troubles of Korea’s Influential Economic Pundit

At trial, the government argued that false information published by Park had rattled currency markets and panicked thousands of citizens into selling off dollars, at a cost to the government of $2.2 billion.
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Paul Krugman: How Did Economists Get It So Wrong?

“We should have a recession. People who spend their lives pounding nails in Nevada need something else to do.”
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John Cassidy: The Wisdom of King

The massive support extended to the banking sector around the world, while necessary to avert economic disaster, has created possibly the biggest moral hazard in history.
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Brian Raftery: Tim and Eric Awesome Show! Gross, Half-Naked, Demented TV

The goal was to spur more informative local programming, but instead America got insecure talk-show hosts, bug-eyed conspiracy theorists, and deservedly undiscovered musicians — lumpen, inarticulate people who would not have been allowed anywhere near a
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Douglas Rushkoff: Economics is not natural science

The first innovation was to centralize currency. What better way for the already rich to maintain their wealth than to make money scarce?
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Daniel Zalewski: Children’s books, parents, and discipline

In today’s picture books, the kids are in charge.
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Daniel Roth: The Answer Factory - Fast, Disposable, and Profitable as Hell

Demand Media has created a virtual factory that pumps out 4,000 videoclips and articles a day. It starts with an algorithm.

October 26 2009

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Dennis Overbuy: The Collider, the Particle and a Theory About Fate

A pair of otherwise distinguished physicists have suggested that the hypothesized Higgs boson, which physicists hope to produce with the collider, might be so abhorrent to nature that its creation would ripple backward through time and stop the collider b
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Sasha Frere-Jones: Jay-Z, Freddie Gibbs, and the end of hip-hop

A genre ages out.
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Tom Slee: No One Makes You Shop at Wal-Mart

The Surprising Deceptions of Individual Choice

October 24 2009

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Stephen Marche: What's Really Going on With All These Vampires?

From Twilight to True Blood and now The Vampire Diaries, is it vampires that so many American women love... or just gay men?
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Sean Macaulay: The Love Guru

In his books, bestselling author Malcolm Gladwell has dissected many inspirational underdog victories, but his own triumph over the opposite sex could well be the most inspirational of all.
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Dana Goodyear: Man of Extremes

The Return of James Cameron.

October 11 2009

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Atul Gawande: Piecework

Medicine’s money problem.
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Q&A with Oliver Sacks: Hallucinations, neurological curiosities and a passion for understanding

There are something like 50 visual sub-centers and all of them have to talk with each other and be orchestrated, and there’s no conductor, they all orchestrate themselves.
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Jill Lepore: Not so fast - The history of management consulting

Scientific management started as a way to work. How did it become a way of life?
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The Last Psychiatrist: Why Can't Kids Walk Alone To School? Part 1

We're not confident in how we've trained our kids and so we don't train them, reinforcing our insecurity. Meanwhile, we don't see that they're growing up anyway.
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John Cassidy: Rational Irrationality

The real reason that capitalism is so crash-prone.
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Brad Stones: An E-Commerce Empire, From Porn to Puppies

Although Mr. Gordon has yoked together disparate endeavors that support pornography, the Bible, and prevention of animal abuse — all by marrying the universal purchasing power of credit cards to the respectability conveyed by slick Web sites — those f
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Caleb Crain: Bootylicious

What do the pirates of yore tell us about their modern counterparts?
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