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Feb 10

Daily Links for February 3rd through February 5th

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Born Poor? | Santa Fe Reporter – Bowles’ most recent paper, published in the October 2009 issue of Science, was a huge project with 25 collaborators. It examines how wealth is transferred from parents to children in hunter-gatherer societies versus agricultural societies.
That might seem distant from the busy unemployment offices on Guadalupe Street. But everyone can relate to his chosen subject: inequality. He studies the economic differences between people with the same discipline that Jane Goodall studies chimpanzees or Stephen Hawking studies the cosmos.

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Feb 10

Daily Links for February 3rd through February 5th

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Jan 10

Daily Links for January 3rd through January 8th

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Then vs. now: How prices have changed since 1999 – During the subsequent decade, the stock market made us rich as kings, then poor as church mice. We've taken a look back to see how the years have affected the price of 50 things we buy, or wish we could buy. Thanks to inflation, it takes around $1.30 to buy what $1 bought in 1999.

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Nov 09

Daily Links for November 27th through November 28th

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Visual Literacy: An E-Learning Tutorial on Visualization for Communication, Engineering and Business – The Visual-Literacy.org e-learning course will be used as an online leveling course as well as a blended skill-building course for students of fourteen different university courses in four universities (for more than 500 students). These courses require advanced analytical and conceptual visualization skills in order to transform abstract thought efficiently into graphic, tangible forms and to manage the topic complexity and the problems addressed in each class.

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Nov 09

Daily Links for November 1st through November 2nd

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A Pocket Guide to Social Media and Kids | Nielsen Wire – SUMMARY: When is a phone not a phone? In the hands of children and tweens, today’s cell phones are primarily used as text messaging devices, cameras, gaming consoles, video viewers, MP3 players, and incidentally, as mobile phones via the speaker capability so their friends can chime in on the call. Parents are getting dialed in to the social media phenomenon and beginning to understand—and limit—how children use new media.

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Oct 09

Daily Links for October 4th through October 7th

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Reward Points: The Real Deal | MintLife Blog | Personal Finance News & Advice – Reward points programs can turn saving money on the purchases you make seem like a game. But the game you’re playing is more like skee ball than frisbee. Playing for points means you’ll be tempted to buy things you can’t afford just to acquire points. But even worse is the fact that the game is rigged before you even begin. Most people will never acquire enough points to pay for the luxury items they desire. And many reward programs are deliberately deceptive in describing how they work. Not all points are created equal and some are downright worthless. Our guide to reward points programs will teach you the tricks you need to be a points ninja.

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Sep 09

Daily Links for September 18th

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Daily Number: A Scarcity of Car Lovers – Pew Research Center – Americans' romance with the automobile seems to be cooling off a bit. A Pew Research survey conducted in 2006 found that just 23% say they consider their car "something special — more than just a way to get around," barely half of the 43% who felt this way in 1991.

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Sep 09

Daily Links for August 31st

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Another Reason Why My Doctor Tells Me The Nation Shouldn’t Read Megan McArdle… « The Inverse Square Blog – This very long post can be summed up thusly – Megan McArdle is a glibertarian hack and should not be taken seriously.
Education Needs to Be Turned on Its Head – Schools fail not because they don’t impart knowledge or skills, but because they kill curiosity, smother excitement for learning, club down with a furious brutality our desires to be independent, to think for ourselves, to learn about things that actually interest us.

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Aug 09

Daily Links for August 27th through August 28th

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Money Supply – Where Does New Money Come From? | MintLife Blog | Personal Finance News & Advice – President Obama’s stimulus bill is a reminder of how creative our government can be when injecting cash into our economy. However, many are not aware of exactly how and where the money comes and goes. The government does not simply dump billions of dollars into the system and inflation and deflation are some magical by-products — in reality, money is distributed to specific groups at specific times for specific reasons. Today we will examine some of the basic ways that our government puts money into the economy, including some specifics of the recent stimulus package.

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Aug 09

Daily Links for August 24th through August 25th

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AAAS – AAAS News Release – "AAAS Debuts New Voting Research Database to Aid Study and Improvement of Elections" – The ambitious project—the first of its kind in the United States—will permit fast, free access to research focused on a broad range of issues, from absentee voting to polling places and voting technology. The database currently has about 500 entries, most of them published since 2000, and the collection will grow considerably as more research is added.