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The Billionaire Koch Brothers’ War Against Obama (The New Yorker)
There’s a difference between enlightened self-interest and simply self-interest. It seems that for the Kochs, the line between the two is heavy and wide. That’s what filthy rich can buy for you. The billionaire Koch brothers’ war against Obama : The New Yorker.
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Tagged arrogance, business, influence, libertarian, plutocracy, politics, poopyheads, power, wealth
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Do-gooders get voted off island first: People don’t really like unselfish colleagues, psychologists find
This explains a lot about my life. It also explains some of the short-comings of society in general. Do-gooders get voted off island first: People don’t really like unselfish colleagues, psychologists find.
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Tagged anthropology, behavior, business, group, hierarchy, nice, people, politics, psychology, ranking, sociology
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Master Planner: Fred Brooks Shows How to Design Anything (Wired)
Thirty-five years ago, Fred Brooks wrote a small technical book, The Mythical Man-Month, which he named after the flawed assumption that more manpower meant predictably faster progress. Now he’s written a new book, The Design of Design, that extends his ideas into fields outside computer science. Master Planner: Fred Brooks Shows How to Design Anything.
Add Salt As Required: The Recipe For Fresh Water (New Scientist)
One of the keys for the survival of the over-stocked human population is potable water. Without that, the rest is academic. On that score, progress is definitely being made: Add salt as required: the recipe for fresh water — New Scientist.
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Tagged climate, desalinization, drinking, ecology, green, h2o, potable, purify, resources, water
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The Crime of the Century: What BP and the US Government Don’t Want You to Know, Part I (Huffington Post)
If even only part of this is true, I hope the administration got a tanker full of SCOTUS-approved re-election contributions for selling out the national trust. They’ll need them. Jerry Cope: The Crime of the Century: What BP and the US Government Don’t Want You to Know, Part I.
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Tagged administration, animals, bp, coast guard, cost, cover-up, damage, death, ecology, green, gulf, homeland security, money, news, obama, oil, toxic, toxin
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Proposition 8, Health Care Reform – Unconstitutional? | The Faster Times
The thing that annoys me most about many tea-bag-partiers isn’t so much that they disagree–honest debate is expected, but that they so often demonstrate their degree of ignorance (at best) or fascism (at worst). Proposition 8, Health Care Reform – Unconstitutional? | Self and Society.
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Four Deformations of the Apocalypse – NYTimes.com
Electronic Frontier Foundation weighs in on th Google-Verizon Net Neutrality Proposal – Fifth & Main
This is potentially the game-changing issue of the information age. It can seem like tech esoterica, but in this inter-connected world, it’s resolution will touch just about everyone. Electronic Frontier Foundation weighs in on th Google-Verizon Net Neutrality Proposal – Fifth & Main.
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Tagged access, business, class, computer, fairness, freedom, google, internet, net, net neutrality, network, technology, verizon
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