CAN THE ECONOMY BE SAVED?
3quarksdaily
Friday November 21, 2008 |
A discussion (transcription and audio available) over at the NYPL: A LIVE from the NYPL forum on the global economic crisis with three leading authorities: Nouriel Roubini (NYU) was one of the earliest and most
persistent economists warning us of the...
CAN THE ECONOMY BE SAVED?
3quarksdaily
Friday November 21, 2008 |
A discussion (transcription and audio available) over at the NYPL: A LIVE from the NYPL forum on the global economic crisis with three leading authorities: Nouriel Roubini (NYU) was one of the earliest and most
persistent economists warning us of the...
Common misconceptions about science II: Life expe...
Psychology Today Blogs
Evolutionary | Friday November 21, 2008 |
Another common misperception about science, which is held even by many social scientists, is that, both in our ancestral past and in many developing nations today, people die at a much younger age than they do in contemporary western industrialized nations. ...
REFORMING THE WORLD?S INTERNATIONAL MONEY
3quarksdaily
Friday November 21, 2008 |
Paul Davidson offers some ideas: In the 21st century interdependent global economy, a substantial degree of economic cooperation among trading nations is essential. The original Keynes Plan for reforming the international payments system called for the...
REFORMING THE WORLD?S INTERNATIONAL MONEY
3quarksdaily
Friday November 21, 2008 |
Paul Davidson offers some ideas: In the 21st century interdependent global economy, a substantial degree of economic cooperation among trading nations is essential. The original Keynes Plan for reforming the international payments system called for the...
The President-Elect and India
3quarksdaily
Friday November 21, 2008 |
Martha Nussbaum
President-elect Barack Obama will face many challenges in foreign policy, but forging a productive relationship with India will be high on that list. President Clinton took a keen interest in India, and, especially, in issues of rural...
The President-Elect and India
3quarksdaily
Friday November 21, 2008 |
Martha Nussbaum
President-elect Barack Obama will face many challenges in foreign policy, but forging a productive relationship with India will be high on that list. President Clinton took a keen interest in India, and, especially, in issues of rural...
Alexander Cockburn on Rick Perlstein's Nixonland
3quarksdaily
Friday November 21, 2008 |
A very harsh review, in New Left Review : Perlstein?s larger historical focus, however, is
near glaucoma. His narrative chugs through the late 60s and early 70s,
offering scenes that are drearily familiar from the scores of
contemporary accounts cited...
Alexander Cockburn on Rick Perlstein's Nixonland
3quarksdaily
Friday November 21, 2008 |
A very harsh review, in New Left Review : Perlstein?s larger historical focus, however, is
near glaucoma. His narrative chugs through the late 60s and early 70s,
offering scenes that are drearily familiar from the scores of
contemporary accounts cited...
Alexnader Cockburn on "Is there a Left left?"
3quarksdaily
Friday November 21, 2008 |
From October 9, 2007 talk at the Heyman Center for the Humanities, a video .
Alexnader Cockburn on "Is there a Left left?"
3quarksdaily
Friday November 21, 2008 |
From October 9, 2007 talk at the Heyman Center for the Humanities, a video .
From Great Game to Grand Bargain
3quarksdaily
Friday November 21, 2008 |
Barnett Rubin and Ahmed Rashid in Project Syndicate: The ?Great Game? is no fun anymore. Nineteenth-century British
imperialists used that term to describe the British-Russian struggle
for mastery in Afghanistan and Central Asia. More than a century...
From Great Game to Grand Bargain
3quarksdaily
Friday November 21, 2008 |
Barnett Rubin and Ahmed Rashid in Project Syndicate: The ?Great Game? is no fun anymore. Nineteenth-century British
imperialists used that term to describe the British-Russian struggle
for mastery in Afghanistan and Central Asia. More than a century...
University of Alabama building 3D virtual campus i...
Online Learning Update
Friday November 21, 2008 |
Imagine a world where people can change the color of their skin or the circumference of their waist, where gravity is just an option. A place where your surroundings are limited only by your creativity. A place where the University of Alabama doesn't have a...
University of Alabama building 3D virtual campus i...
Online Learning Update
Friday November 21, 2008 |
Imagine a world where people can change the color of their skin or the circumference of their waist, where gravity is just an option. A place where your surroundings are limited only by your creativity. A place where the University of Alabama doesn't have a...
Clarity, creativity, and compassion are key charac...
Online Learning Update
Friday November 21, 2008 |
What are the qualities that help instructors succeed when teaching online? That was the focus of a lively discussion at the 14th annual Sloan-C International Conference on Online Learning. Presenter Bill Phillips of the University of Central Florida discussed...
Clarity, creativity, and compassion are key charac...
Online Learning Update
Friday November 21, 2008 |
What are the qualities that help instructors succeed when teaching online? That was the focus of a lively discussion at the 14th annual Sloan-C International Conference on Online Learning. Presenter Bill Phillips of the University of Central Florida discussed...
Kant - separation of reason and experience
The Weblog of (a) David Jones
cddu | Friday November 21, 2008 |
I’m slowly working through some PhD related work (the post on the paper I’m reading will come out later today) and that brought me across the following description of an argument of Kant’s from the wikipedia page on Kant
Kant argues,...
I Want My MTV? Not Anymore, Music Promotion Moves ...
ReadWriteWeb
Analysis | Friday November 21, 2008 |
It's clear now that the Web has once and for all replaced TV's role in the music business. Yesterday Guns n' Roses released their very long awaited album Chinese Democracy via a colorful MySpace page . Then today NPR announced that they will offer an...
Why more students are trying virtual classes - Kai...
Online Learning Update
Friday November 21, 2008 |
Jordyn Clark recently went to school barefoot, wearing shamrock boxer shorts and a T-shirt. Sitting at the kitchen table in her Lynnwood home, Jordyn logged onto her algebra class and began solving equations through the Edmonds School District's new online...
Why more students are trying virtual classes - Kai...
Online Learning Update
Friday November 21, 2008 |
Jordyn Clark recently went to school barefoot, wearing shamrock boxer shorts and a T-shirt. Sitting at the kitchen table in her Lynnwood home, Jordyn logged onto her algebra class and began solving equations through the Edmonds School District's new online...
European Online Library Launches
ResourceShelf
Access to Information | Friday November 21, 2008 |
From the article :
The British Library in London is among more than 1,000 cultural organisations making contributions to a European online library.
The free multimedia venture, Europeana, will also see input from the European Commission and the Louvre...