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Economics Links

Apr 30, 2014

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1. Huffington Post: Financially Speaking — Are We an Illiterate Nation? … Champlain College's Center for Financial Literacy released its '2013 National Report Card,' which quantifies what states are doing to promote financial literacy in the classroom. Only seven of 50 states surveyed came away from the study with an "A" rating. That's right, a…
Science and Technology Links

Apr 4, 2014

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1. Christian Science Monitor: In Kenya, selling human waste could revolutionize sanitation Dealing with human waste has become a health crisis in many poor communities, but residents of a Kenyan slum have found a solution that turns poop into profit. … … Sanergy’s toilets are low-tech and low-cost, but they have a key feature: They…
Science and Technology Links

Nov 26, 2013

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1. The Cultural Cognition Project The Cultural Cognition Project is a group of scholars interested in studying how cultural values shape public risk perceptions and related policy beliefs. Cultural cognition refers to the tendency of individuals to conform their beliefs about disputed matters of fact (e.g., whether global warming is a serious threat; whether the…
Economics Links

Sep 29, 2013

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1. Here's The Chart That Destroys What Republicans Are Saying About The Deficit 2. The 10 Most Popular Charts On The World's Most Amazing Economics Website Here is one example: Nominal GDP (3.1% growth year over year in Q2): 3. Global trade volume and world industrial production both reached new record highs in July 4.…
Saturday Links

Jul 13, 2013

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I skipped Saturday Links last week due to the holiday weekend. I'm catching up this week. 1. Faith in the Free Market "… Selke, now 36, is part of a vanguard of young Christians who believe that God uses not only the church and formal ministry but every sphere of society, including business and free…
Saturday Links

Jun 29, 2013

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1. The Myth of a Stagnant Middle Class A favorite "progressive" trope is that America's middle class has stagnated economically since the 1970s. One version of this claim, made by Robert Reich, President Clinton's labor secretary, is typical: "After three decades of flat wages during which almost all the gains of growth have gone to…
Saturday Links

Dec 22, 2012

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(Like the Kruse Kronicle on Facebook if you want links to daily posts to appear in your Facebook feed.) 1. Several articles I saw this week reflect on data presented in The Pew Forum's The Global Religious Landscape: A Report on the Size and Distribution of the World's Major Religious Groups as of 2010. Here…
Saturday Links

Dec 1, 2012

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Here are the links. BTW, if you haven't already, you can "like" the Kruse Kronicle Facebook page and see daily links in your Facebook feed. 1. As a kid, I watched Mutual of Omaha's Wild Kingdom on Saturdays. That was the beginning of my life-long appreciation for big cats. One of the organizations we support…
The Consequences of Machine Intelligence

Oct 25, 2012

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Atlantic: The Consequences of Machine Intelligence Moshe Vardi If machines are capable of doing almost any work humans can do, what will humans do? … Bill Joy's question deserves therefore not to be ignored: Does the future need us? By this I mean to ask, if machines are capable of doing almost any work humans…
Smarter Robots, With No Pesky Uprisings

Sep 18, 2012

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in Technology (Manufacturing & Construction))

Businessweek: Smarter Robots, With No Pesky Uprisings Measured against the hopes and horrors of science fiction, Baxter, a new manufacturing robot from a company called Rethink Robotics, is a huge disappointment. Although it’s got two Olympic swimmer-length arms and a set of expressive digitally rendered eyes and eyebrows, Baxter is legless and speechless. It can’t…