| Why austerity won't work, in the USA or the EU |
| Column from Justia.com (http://verdict.justia.com/2011/12/22/austerity-really-is-austere) Economist and tax law professor Neil H. Buchanan has written an excellent column on the legal web site Justia (http://www.justia.com/) about why austerity policies w |
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| The rich are different--and not in a good way |
| I'm putting this here because it is just as much about philosophy as it is about politics. From MSNBC (http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/44084236/ns/health-behavior/t/rich-are-different-not-good-way-studies-suggest/): Psychologist and social scientist Dacher Ke |
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| Nobel Prize time |
| This year's physics award has gone entirely to non-academics: To Charles Kao for groundbreaking achievements concerning the transmission of light in fibers for optical communicationand to Willard Boyle and George ... |
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