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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

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Free FLV Converter | YouTube Converter | BENDER CONVERTER – Bender Converter is an easy-to-use online application for downloading and converting videos from such services as YouTube, Daily Motion, Vimeo, Wat.tv, Veoh, Vids.MySpace.com, Google Video and many others. You can download video and audio in MP3, AVI, FLV Flash, iPod / iPhone and other popular formats. The service is fast and doesn't require you to register. All that you need is a link to a page with a video and our software.

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Dec 09

Daily Links for December 13th through December 14th

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Top Ten blogs: Social Media Measurement « The Seldom Seen Kid – How we measure social media ROI is the hot topic in comunications at the minute. What metrics can we use, what new ideas can we develop, and my particular favouritedo we even need to measure ROI?
I thought I’d collate this after reading and commenting on this post by Mike Litman got my brain swhirling.

Here’s ten of my favourite posts discussing social media ROI, there’s some classics, and some newer pieces too:

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Dec 09

Daily Links for December 9th through December 10th

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Nov 09

Daily Links for November 11th through November 13th

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Home | Report Card for America’s Infrastructure – America's Infrastructure GPA: D
Estimated 5 Year Investment Need: $2.2 Trillion
NASA – 2012: Beginning of the End or Why the World Won’t End? – Much like Y2K, 2012 has been analyzed and the science of the end of the Earth thoroughly studied. Contrary to some of the common beliefs out there, the science behind the end of the world quickly unravels when pinned down to the 2012 timeline. Below, NASA Scientists answer several questions that we're frequently asked regarding 2012.

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Oct 09

Daily Links for October 27th through October 30th

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Douchebags of the United States, Classified By Region – Douchebags are a lot like herpes: they're everywhere, and they all possess many common traits, but there are also many different strains of douchebag. It's important to be able to distinguish the traits of your region's strain of douchebag so that you have a better idea of what you're dealing with. That's why we've created this helpful guide to Douchebags of the United States.

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Oct 09

Daily Links for October 23rd through October 27th

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What Obama’s Doing With Fox News « Whatever – I think some people are under the impression that the White House wants Fox News to disappear. Nothing, I suspect, could be further from the truth. The White House is in fact delighted that Fox News and its merry cast of commentators exists. Nor is the White House vexed that its every pronouncement concerning Fox News solidifies Fox’s core audience; that’s actually the plan. The point is not to moderate Fox News by accusing it of being biased/not a real news organization/running or being the propoganda arm of the GOP; if anything, the point is to make it more extreme in the views it airs.

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Oct 09

Daily Links for October 10th through October 12th

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How Rewards Can Backfire and Reduce Motivation | PsyBlog – Yet psychologists have long known that rewards are overrated. The carrot, of carrot-and-stick fame, is not as effective as we've been led to believe. Rewards work under some circumstances but sometimes they backfire. Spectacularly.

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Sep 09

Daily Links for September 12th

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They Feed Our Illusions Asharq Alawsat Newspaper (English) [9/11 Conspiracies, from the Muslim Perspective] – The main purpose of all these contorted ideas is to kill the questions, and to exonerate the cultural self from responsibility. If the ones who carried out these explosions were Serbs, Mossad, Seventh Day Adventists, Colombian gangs, or the CIA, it would be meaningless to question us about extremism, the culture of fanaticism and religious excess, the need to revise the concepts that establish religious violence, and all this continuous headache of questions that keep hammering on the mind of the society. The matter is easy with these conspiratorial illusions, and presenting critical questions becomes meaningless "intellectual luxury" and verbosity.

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Sep 09

Daily Links for September 11th

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RED ORANGE YELLOW BLUE AND GREEN – Will we ever return to blue or green?
Virtual Water – a double-sided poster visualizing the water footprint of products and nations – Based on the data gathered by Hoeckstra et al. in their study »Water Footprint of Nations« German designer Timm Kekeritz created this double-sided poster. One side visualizes the water footprint of selected nations, emphasizing the im- and export of virtual water. The other side shows the virtual water content of selected foods and commodities.