April 2009
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“Two Daughters and a Beautiful Wife”...
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Can the Oil Shock Alone Explain the Financial... →
According to Brookings Institution economist James Hamilton, apparently it can.
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Government Transparency is Bunk →
Aaron Swartz writes about his experiences and thoughts on government transparency after working on watchdog.net:
“I’ve spent the past year and change working on a site, watchdog.net, that publishes government information online. In doing that, I’ve learned a lot: I’ve looked at everything from pollution records to voter registration databases and I’ve figured out a number of bureacratic...
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“There are times to cultivate and create, when you nurture your world and give...”
– Chogyam Trungpa
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Ratio: The Simple Codes Behind the Craft of... →
“Cooking, like so many other creative endeavors is defined by relationships. For instance, knowing exactly how much flour to put into a loaf of bread isn’t nearly as useful as understanding the relationship between the flour and the water, or fat, or salt. That relationship is defined by a ‘ratio’ and having a ratio in hand is like having a secret decoder ring that frees you from the...
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I suspect that this will someday be revolutionary →
Cellular Communication through Light
Information transfer is a fundamental of life. A few studies have reported that cells use photons (from an endogenous source) as information carriers. This study finds that cells can have an influence on other cells even when separated with a glass barrier, thereby disabling molecule diffusion through the cell-containing medium. As there is still very little...
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