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99 Bottles iPhone App
Can you count down from a vigintillion? This is the first iPhone app by a developer I personally know! I also got a sneak peek at the app a few weeks ago, although I missed out on a chance to contribute to the voices. The app site is here and this is the link to the iTunes App Store.
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Between Angels and UFOs →
Blake Hounshell of Foreign Policy successfully contextualizes where global warming fits in:
Percentage of Americans who believe in angels: 55
Percentage of Americans who believe in evolution: 39
Percentage of Americans who believe in anthropogenic global warming: 36
Percentage of Americans who believe in ghosts: 34
Percentage of Americans who believe in UFOs: 34
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Alan Beattie on the Doha Round Problem →
Disciplinary boundaries matter, unfortunately. When an economist tries to sound insightful, the “insight” sounds banal to political scientists:
What do we learn from this? It’s not the global mechanisms that are wonky. It’s the weakness of the national governments pulling the levers. This would be as true of a plurilateral trade deal as of a multilateral, of course. There is no technocratic...
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