January 2012
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Letters of Note: To My Old Master →
Dayton, Ohio,  August 7, 1865 To My Old Master, Colonel P.H. Anderson, Big Spring, Tennessee Sir: I got your letter, and was glad to find that you had not forgotten Jourdon, and that you wanted me to come back and live with you again, promising to do better for me than anybody else can. I have often felt uneasy about you. I thought the Yankees would have hung you long before this, for...
Jan 31st
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The Model Alliance →
What is the Model Alliance? The Model Alliance is a not-for-profit organization that provides a platform for models and leaders in the fashion industry to organize to radically improve the conditions under which models work. Founded in 2011 by Sara Ziff, with the support of fellow models and the Fashion Law Institute at Fordham Law School, the Model Alliance is an industry group working to...
Jan 27th
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Jan 26th
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David Suzuki: What's So Radical About Caring for...
Huffington Post Published: 1/18/12 12:45 PM ET Caring about the air, water, and land that give us life. Exploring ways to ensure Canada’s natural resources serve the national interest. Knowing that sacrificing our environment to a corporate-controlled economy is suicide. If those qualities make us radicals, as federal Natural Resources Minister Joe Oliver recently claimed in an...
Jan 23rd
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Jan 17th
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Notes From a Guantánamo Survivor
Notes From a Guantánamo Survivor By Murat Kurnaz New York Times Published: January 7, 2012 Bremen, Germany I LEFT Guantánamo Bay much as I had arrived almost five years earlier — shackled hand-to-waist, waist-to-ankles, and ankles to a bolt on the airplane floor. My ears and eyes were goggled, my head hooded, and even though I was the only detainee on the flight this time, I was drugged and...
Jan 8th
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December 2011
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Don't let the green grass fool you: The Roots are... →
This article about The Roots is amazing. Read ”Don’t let the green grass fool you: The Roots are one of the most respected hip-hop acts in the world; why can’t they leave the sad stuff alone?” by Rachel Kaadzi Ghansah
Dec 15th
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FIXING THE FUTURE  →
“In a one-hour PBS special, Host David Brancaccio visits communities across America using innovative approaches to create jobs and build prosperity in our new economy.” (watch)
Dec 14th
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Dec 14th
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“Private capital tends to become concentrated in few hands, partly because of...”
– Albert Einstein via azspot and
Dec 13th
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Dec 7th
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The 2016 question and fashion →
finalfashion contributes this perspective about fashion, in response to the 2016 question posed recently. Adding my 2 cents on the near future of fashion, reposted from Bespoken: The overarching theme of this decade will be debt, which will mean that fashion won’t likely have the kind of huge cultural weight it once had. There will be a certain public disinterest, or even a backlash, against...
Dec 4th
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“What changes will everyone be talking about in...
I was recently asked this question at a conference and liked it immediately. The question is about the near future, so it appears within the realm of predictability. However, the question is still about the future which is inherently unpredictable because it just hasn’t happened yet. Therefore, there is a natural tension welcomed by the question, whereby people are invited comment about the...
Dec 3rd
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Raise Taxes on Rich to Reward True Job Creators  →
Raise Taxes on Rich to Reward True Job Creators By Nick Hanauer, Nov 30, 2011  Bloomberg News It is a tenet of American economic beliefs, and an article of faith for Republicans that is seldom contested by Democrats: If taxes are raised on the rich, job creation will stop. Trouble is, sometimes the things that we know to be true are dead wrong. For the larger part of human history, for example,...
Dec 3rd
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November 2011
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Nov 30th
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Nov 19th
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Jay Z, Buffett, and Forbes on Success and Giving Back
Nov 19th
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Nov 18th
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Has a Harvard Professor Mapped Out the Next Step... →
But consider the case of food subsidies and tariffs. These manipulations began during the Great Depression, when the cost of actual staple foods — flower, rice, etc. — was high enough that starvation was not unheard of. The government introduced tariffs to protect domestic farmers, and subsidies to lower the costs of food. But the system has now been in place for close to a century and political...
Nov 18th
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We Need Decentralized and Renewable Energy
We Need Decentralized and Renewable Energy by Steven Cohen Executive Director, Columbia University’s Earth Institute Huffington Post Posted: 11/7/11 08:34 AM ET The surprise snow storm that hit the Northeast of the United States at the end of October resulted in massive power outages and reminded us of our dependency on energy. Without plentiful, easily accessible energy we must do...
Nov 9th
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How Great Companies Think Differently
How Great Companies Think Differently by Rosabeth Moss Kanter Harvard Business Review, The Magazine, November 2011 It’s time that beliefs and theories about business catch up with the way great companies operate and how they see their role in the world today. Traditionally, economists and financiers have argued that the sole purpose of business is to make money—the more the better. That...
Nov 9th
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Did a Harvard Economics Class Cause the Financial...
“Of course, one class didn’t create the entire financial crisis” - thankfully that’s what this piece (see below) concludes. However, we can ask: are classes completely faultless? I think it’s consistent that the market is something created by the study of economics, and classes are therefore not entirely exempt from blame for the crisis. Was there anything like modern...
Nov 5th
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The X Factor of Economics: People →
“We can make fun of economics, and I’ve made a professional habit of it,” said Professor Ariely. “But there’s a good reason that human irrationality isn’t part of the standard economic models, and this gets to the dilemma of economics. If you have a simple problem, you can offer a simple solution. But the economy is a hugely complex problem. So we either simplify the problem and offer a...
Nov 4th
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Keystone XL in context: oilsands and environmental... →
via Pembina Keystone XL in context: oilsands and environmental management Two decades of ineffective policies have left their mark on the Canadian landscape Published Sept. 22, 2011 By Jennifer Grant, Nathan Lemphers, Lindsay Fischer There is a growing debate in the United States about the environmental impact of oilsands and the related issue of whether there are effective legal and...
Nov 3rd
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October 2011
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Obama administration greenlights 500 oil drilling... →
Drilling will commence summer 2012 in the Chuckchi Sea, where Alaska and Russia meet. Environmental groups fume. Shell pleased. Rare species at risk. Here is a round up: Approves former President Bush’s stalled plans to drill in Arctic Earth Justice sues Native Alaskans are pissed: “We have a right to life, to physical integrity, to security, and the right to enjoy the benefits of our...
Oct 28th
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Assange: Battle Bigger than Wikileaks
“If the blockade is not torn down by the end of the year, the organization cannot continue its work.” By: Sarah Owermohle, Sabah Ayoub Published Wednesday, October 26, 2011 Amid a bid to raise funds for his financially besieged enterprise, global whistleblower and Wikileaks co-founder Julian Assange told al-Akhbar that in light of the popular upheaval in the Middle East and beyond,...
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Oct 23rd
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Intellectual Roots of Wall St. Protest Lie in... →
By Dan Berrett (via chronicle) Academics have become frequent visitors to Zuccotti Park, the 33,000-square-foot pedestrian plaza in the heart of New York City’s financial district that is now the site of a nearly monthlong protest, Occupy Wall Street. Famous scholars like Cornel West, Slavoj Zizek, and Frances Fox Piven have spoken to the crowd, with their remarks dispersed,...
Oct 18th
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Oct 11th
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September 2011
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Invisible People →
Invisible People talks with homeless people, “… the real people, telling their own, very real stories… unedited, uncensored and raw. The purpose of this vlog is to make the invisible visible. I hope these people and their stories connect with you and don’t let go. I hope their conversations with me will start a conversation in your circle of friends.”
Sep 27th
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An Open Letter to "Jerks" by the U.S. Ambassador... →
AMBASSADOR MURPHY: SPEECHES & TEXTS TRANSLATION: Deutsche Übersetzung & Media Reaction Jerks (open letter, September 8, 2011) There are jerks everywhere. There are jerks where I come from in America, and there are jerks in the heart of Europe, here in Berlin. A jerk is someone who shows no respect for other people, because they dress differently, talk differently, or were born with...
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August 2011
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Do you like interviews?
The Sound of Young America  Interview Magazine  Stop Smiling Magazine This American Life Nardwuar’s Video Vault Bad Day Magazine 032c Magazine’s issue archives What else should we add to this list? Addition from a reader: The Paris Review ”Egad! The Paris Review has an incredible archive of deeply fascinating interviews on the art of writing, poetry,...
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July 2011
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Jul 25th
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DIY internet spreading through Middle East and... →
”  People in Kenya, Afghanistan and Pakistan are building their own wireless networks out of found materials. It works like this: A single commercial wireless router is mounted on radio frequency reflectors and covered in a metal mesh. Another router/reflector pair is set up at a distance. The two routers establish a network that can be used by anybody with a reflector. To build a...
Jul 22nd
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June 2011
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Jun 27th
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Jun 20th
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Arcade Fire in Haiti: 'So much joy ...'
For Régine Chassagne of Arcade Fire, Haiti’s struggle to cope with last year’s earthquake has been poignant – her parents fled the island under Baby Doc’s regime. So when the band returned to play a unique show in a remote mountain town, she was swept away by the emotion. Here, she tells the she tells the story Régine Chassagne  The Observer, Sunday 19 June 2011 Making...
Jun 20th
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