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PUBLISHED: April 17, 2013
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Beating Obesity

In 1948, Congress doled out $5 billion to Europe in the first installment of the Marshall Plan, the World Health Organization was born, a simian astronaut named Albert I was launched into the…
LENGTH: 9 minutes (2428 words)

Half the World

Version 1.03 | September 3, 2002 | Version History First published on the 'Networks, Economics, and Culture' mailing list Subscribe A good deal has been written about the digital divide, the…
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LENGTH: 10 minutes (2634 words)

Schulz: Why I Despise The Great Gatsby

The best advice I ever got about reading came from the critic and scholar Louis Menand. Back in 2005, I spent six months in Boston and, for the fun of it, sat in on a lit seminar he was teaching at…
PUBLISHED: May 6, 2013
LENGTH: 9 minutes (2373 words)
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WELCOME TO THE ALMOST CULT-LIKE FAN-WORLD OF AMERICAN WOMEN’S PRO BASKETBALL

THE INSPIRING INCIDENT OF THE BURGUNDY PALMS I teach at a smallish college in St. Paul, Minnesota. People who walk into my smallish office see: the cover of the July 2004 Lynx Tracks (the promotional…
LENGTH: 15 minutes (3861 words)

The Rise of Big Data

(Getty Images / John Elk) Everyone knows that the Internet has changed how businesses operate, governments function, and people live. But a new, less visible technological trend is just as…
LENGTH: 3 minutes (836 words)
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If the GDP is Up, Why is America Down?

October 1995 Why we need new measures of progress, why we do not have them, and how they would change the social and political landscape by Clifford Cobb, Ted Halstead, and Jonathan RoweThroughout…
LENGTH: 40 minutes (10007 words)

Recession or no recession, many NFL, NBA and Major League

What the hell happened here ? Seven floors above the iced-over Dallas North Tollway, Raghib (Rocket) Ismail is revisiting the question. It's December, and Ismail is sitting in the boardroom of…
LENGTH: 20 minutes (5147 words)

What If We Never Run Out of Oil?

As the great research ship Chikyu left Shimizu in January to mine the explosive ice beneath the Philippine Sea, chances are good that not one of the scientists aboard realized they might be closing…
PUBLISHED: April 24, 2013
LENGTH: 43 minutes (10859 words)
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