by shannyn moore
like its not bad enough. ive been hearing loons talk about secession up here my whole life. in alaska the three top ballot seats president senate and house of representatives have candidates on the ballot from the secessionist alaska independent party. in two of the three the aip holds at least 4 of the vote. the felonious ted stevens looks like he has convinced ...... [Show More]
as the weather turns cold you might be thinking of the rather snowy winter we had last year. not only was there a lot of snow but it always seemed to hit during rush hour. i clearly remember walking home on liberty and seeing cars getting stuck in the snow trying to make it up that hill towards stadium.
thats why i wanted to point your attention to the wonderful world of telecommuting...... [Show More]
det varit mycket spannande att falja hur farst kalle p och sedan chris k tagit sig an idaerna om imitation hos sociologen gabriel tarde testat dem pa pagaende fenomen och byggt pa en smittontologi .
efter att kalle i mars kom hem som smittohard fran en konferens med bland andra bruno latour spred sig figuren fran bloggpost till bloggpost. nar sa smittotan...... [Show More]
yesterday senate democrats made the decision i predicted back in may and june and let joe lieberman keep his committee chairmanship.
the reason is simple. as the new york times notes democrats want to avoid driving mr. lieberman into the republican fold.
liebermans voting record currently puts him in the middle of the democratic caucus. if he left the party he...... [Show More]
this is the way the world ends
this is the way the world ends
this is the way the world ends
not with a bang but a whimper.
here
last week when the i received the agenda for the november 17th meeting i didnt have a lot of time to take the photos. so it was late in the game before i realized this building was on the agenda.
who was samuel green and wh...... [Show More]
peter klein
the current issue of nature features the innovative brain aby a team of cambridgea researche rs suggesting thatathat entrepreneurs defined here as proprietors or founders excel at hot decision making an emotional intuitive underpressure kind of reasoning familiar to neuroscientists.
our groups of entrepreneurs and managers showe...... [Show More]
american church membership has risen throughout most of the past two centuries from 17 percent of the population at the time of the american revolution to 34 percent in the mid19th century to over 60 percent today.
the fraction of the u.s. population employed as clergy has remained stable at 1.2 per thousand for the past 150years. it seems to have been on the increase since 1970 see figure ...... [Show More]
jay greene moderator good morning and welcome to the newtalk forum on whether we should scrap no child left behind nclb the federal accountability regime for k12 schools. a past forum on newtalk considered ways to revise nclb. the focus of this forum is on more fundamental questions was nclb a good idea at all what were the basic goals of nclb and can they be achieved...... [Show More]
les atudiants mentionnent dasormais couramment les sources ou les atudes accessibles en ligne dans leurs travaux dissertations ou mamoires. je suis cependant frappa par la grande disparita de ces citations qui peuvent aller dans leur version la plus sommaire du simple copiercoller de lurl jusqua des accumulations din formations redondantes qui traduisent plus lr...... [Show More]
in retort Post Source: duncancross.net Posted: Nov 15 2008 17:12:12
this was originally part of the prior post but i decided to break it off into a new post.
after linking to uwe reinhardt kevin cites a pwc estimate that defensive medicine wastes 210 billion dollars a year the study is hidden behind onerous registration requirements but i found it here also . that seems like a lot of money until you learn the study estimates our sys...... [Show More]
.....along a low causeway by the ocean.
the man running is one of the professional couriers who worked in relays and covered the distance of 489 km between edo and kyoto in about 90 hours.
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the delivery of letters carried along the tokaido highway was to take no more than 36 hours between tokyo and kyoto and 3 hours between kyoto and osaka.
httpglo bal.mitsub ... [Show More]
tymoczko literature Post Source: netnewmusic.net Posted: Nov 14 2008 15:26:00
currently the arthur scribner bicentennial preceptor dont ask and also an assistant professor of music at princeton university dimitri tymoczko has been getting some press recently for his forays into the world of harmony and geometry not far removed from his colleague paul lansky s interest in affine music perhaps discussed in the telegraph for instance refe...... [Show More]
one reason i believe that fundamental values constrain our valuations however loose such constraints may often be is that i have been fortunateato witness and participate in two intellectual revolutions that have clearly improved our understanding of the world.a in each case iahad earlyaexposure to a new sci ence8221 thatawas something of a fringe movement.a but a...... [Show More]
il nest pas nacessaire de se faire chasseur pour appracier cet alament de notre patrimoine quest la trompe de chasse. peutatre notre lectorat comptetil quelques sonneurs
la garde rapublicaine outre un orchestre comporte une formation de sonneurs de trompes de chasse avec le magnifique rasultat visible et audible dans cette vidao messe de novembre de cette anna...... [Show More]
my attempts at writing about the subject of cyborg anthropology have always resulted in long texts. this attempt is no exception.
definitio n
cyborg anthropology is a set of mental models that can be applied to the examination of the interaction between humans and comptuers and how the capabilities of our bodies are extended when they are uploaded into hypertext.
invisible robots
one of the q... [Show More]
the world and his dog have ripped into paul dacre of the daily tory for his whining about mr justice eadys decision to allow max mosely a bit of privacy. dacres thesis comes down to this mosely was a pervert who liked to engage in nazi themed orgies exposing such behaviour was a just act because it exposed his moral repugnance his unsuitability for the governance of motor sport...... [Show More]
platon pardau exista Post Source: funnygoodbyeletters.org Posted: Nov 10 2008 17:03:04
cam asta e morala minunatului articol inca nescris to be is to be an author of a novel .
am gasit cartea asta pe undeva pe jos pe la universitate in decembrie 2007 cand ma intorceam cu andreea si radu din the jazz...... [Show More]
ive always adored halloween. that and st. patricks day have always been my favorite holidays. i know im weird. im accustomed to getting that response.
my wic ked business theme was launched back on october 31st 2002. and even though i have changed the business name i managed to retain the wic ked.8221 i like it.a i like the double entendr...... [Show More]
i had previously known that vice president curtis as american indian in the sense that barack obama is black both being racially admixed . i had not realized that vice president johnson the least famous one openly lived with an octoroon who acted both as his common law wife and business manager.
barack obama less represents a postracial america...... [Show More]
prediction obama wins big fabio would probably like you to ignore his earlier obama is toast prediction.
delia baldassarri and andrew gelman on how parties have become better at sorting individuals along ideological lines in the latest ajs .
more andrew gelman economists feel on election day a little like jews feel on christmas.
is the media politically biased...... [Show More]
though the idea is likely far older using public works projects to stimulate employment goes back at least to the
mercantilists. for example sir william petty 16231687 believed the government should employ the
idle to work on roads dredge rivers build bridges that sort of thing though he did say in a treaties of taxes and contributions 1662 that tis
of no matter...... [Show More]
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