Category: Links – Saturday

Saturday Links

Apr 20, 2013

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1. What a horrific week for Boston and west Texas people. Our prayers are with the many people who have been so deeply traumatized and injured in these events. Regarding how we respond to such events in public discourse, I thought this article from Slate was especially good. Be Meaningful or Be Quiet "… We…
Saturday Links

Apr 13, 2013

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1. The World's Fastest-Growing Megacities The modern megacity may have been largely an invention of the West, but it's increasingly to be found largely in the East. The seven largest megacities (defined as areas of continuous urban development of over 10 million people) are located in Asia, based on a roundup of the latest population…
Saturday Links

Apr 6, 2013

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1. Atlantic: Could Earth's Population Peak in 2050? "For the past two decades, demographers have generally agreed that global population growth will continue to inch steadily higher in the coming century, raising concerns about everything from pollution to housing to the world's water supply. But a new study out of Spain suggests those estimates may…
Saturday Links

Mar 30, 2013

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Have a wonderful Easter weekend! 1. Rewriting the story of polarized debate: He got Tea Party and Occupy to talk Nabil Laoudji's Mantle Project puts citizens on stage to tell stories of the experiences that led them to their positions on tough issues. That's how he got members of the Tea Party and Occupy movement…
Saturday Links

Mar 16, 2013

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1. The Economist has an interesting graph showing that capitalism has led to greater happiness in member countries of the Commonwealth of Independent States (former Soviet Union countries excluding the three baltic countries.) 2. AEI has an informative piece on economic mobility in the United States: How's the American Dream doing? Well, which one? There…
Saturday Links

Mar 9, 2013

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1. The United States had its financial bubble. Europe is having one too. Is China next? If it is, it could reshape the global economy and radically reshape the Chinese government. Here is an interesting piece about China’s real estate bubble. 2. Robert Tracinski thinks we are in the midst of a Third Industrial Revolution.…
Saturday Links

Mar 2, 2013

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1. Conventional wisdom says wearing the red shirt in Star Trek will get you killed. Not so fast. Statistical analysis in Significance Magazine disagrees. (Keep your redshirt on: a Bayesian exploration) "… In spite of wearing a redshirt, there is only an 8.6% chance of a member of the operations or engineering departments becoming a…
Saturday Links

Feb 23, 2013

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1. Christian History magazine has an entire issue devoted to Christians in the New Industrial Economy: The World Changed, the Church Responded. It is a priceless collection of essays on how various religious traditions responded to (or failed to) the challenges of the Industrial Revolution. Issue 104 examines the impact of automation on Europe and…
Saturday Links

Feb 16, 2013

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1. The new global top dog in international trade is China. China Eclipses U.S. as Biggest Trading Nation "U.S. exports and imports of goods last year totaled $3.82 trillion, the U.S. Commerce Department said last week. China's customs administration reported last month that the country's trade in goods in 2012 amounted to $3.87 trillion." 2.…
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Feb 2, 2013

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Today is the day our advanced technological culture turns to a cute furry rodent in Pennsylvania for a weather forecast. (The only thing a groundhog foretells in my yard is that I’m probably going to need some new landscaping.) Happy Groundhog Day! 1. Strategic Planning and the “Vision Thing” — Fire, Not Fluff. “In the…