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In college, I used to cut out articles from newspapers and tear out the articles from magazines that I wished to keep. Later, I photocopied reports, articles, and essays. Later still, with the advent of near universally accessible computers, printers and the internet, I printed out that in which I was interested. Now I will try and just use a blog to park those dozen or so items a day that I skim, find interesting and/or aggravating, and intend to come back to later.
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About Me
- Charles
- A family man, a management consultant, a book seller and an avid reader. Committed to helping children become avid readers in turn. The great chain of reading always needs renewing.
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- Acceleration Watch
- Aid Watch
- American Academy of Arts & Sciences
- American Chemical Society
- American Council of Trustees and Alumni
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- American Productivity & Quality Center
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- Bureau of Economic Analysis
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- C.S. Lewis Society of California
- Carpe Diem
- Center for International Comparisons
- Centre for Policy Studies (UK)
- CEO Express
- Changing Minds
- Charlie's Diary
- Chicago Boyz
- Children of the Code
- CIA World Factbook
- City Journal
- Clay Shirky's Writing About the Internet
- Cool Tools
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- Core Knowledge Foundation
- Coyote Blog
- Darwinian Conservativism
- David Rumsey Map Collection
- DMOZ Open Directory Project
- E-Commerce Times
- Earth Observatory
- EconLog
- Economic Mobility Project
- Economist Intelligence Unit
- Edge
- Edutopia
- Encyclopedia.com
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- FactCheck.org
- Faculty of Classics
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- Federal Election Commission
- Federal Reserve Bank of Boston
- First Amendment Center
- First Things
- Five Books
- Forbidden Planet
- Freakonomics
- Frink Server Pages
- Future of Children
- Gapminder
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- Global Language Monitor
- Google Earth
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- Greg Mankiw's Blog
- Groningen Growth and Development Center
- Harvard Business Review
- Harvard Center for Risk Analysis
- High Beam
- History News Network
- Hudson Institute
- Human Security Report Project
- Humanities Resource Center Online
- Ideas
- Index Mundi
- Index of Economic Freedom
- Infoplease
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- Institute for Fiscal Studies
- International Culture and Cognition Institute
- Internet Archive Texts
- Internet Public Library
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- James Lileks
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- Khan Academy
- Language Log
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- Lessons Learned
- Library of 19th Century Science
- Library of Economics and Liberty
- Listverse
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- Many Eyes
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- Megan McArdle
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- Metafilter
- Minding the Campus
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- Moving Guides
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- OECD Programme for International Student Assessment
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- Quadrant
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- Science
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- Skeptic
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- The American Chemical Society
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- The British Library
- The Daily Galaxy
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- The Neglected Books Page
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- The Proceedings of the Friesian School
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- The Reader's Advisor Online
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- The Social Affairs Unit
- The Speculist
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- The Winston Churchill Centre and Museum
- Thomas Sowell
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- US Census Bureau
- Value Based Management
- Visual Economics
- Visualizing Economics
- Walter Russell Mead
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- The Color of Friendship by Emily Bernard
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- The Progressivity of Taxes and Transfers by Greg M...
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- The Episcopal Church’s Collapse by Rod Dreher
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- We the People ... Are Lonely from Metafilter
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- 6 charts that show the Welfare State run amok by J...
- The Usefulness of Useless Knowledge by Abraham Fle...
- The Politics of a Chinese Slowdown by Nicholas Borst
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- Outside in the world website
- The trouble with real merit by Mickey Kaus
- The Trouble with Bringing Brains into Court by Mar...
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- The Koran and Historical Scholarship by Peter Berger
- The Koran and Historical Scholarship by Peter Berger
- Think Again: India's Rise by Sumit Ganguly
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- The Worst Marriage in Georgetown by Franklin Foer
- How the Richest 400 People in America Got So Rich ...
- The 11 Ways That Consumers Are Hopeless at Math by...
- We Built Way Too Many Cultural Institutions During...
- Attack of the Micro-Drones by Walter Russell Mead
- Transparency Revolution website
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- No Child Left Behind – The Problem Is Not The Poli...
- Honor Code by David Brooks
- Who Is Reading Whom? by Larry Thornberry
- Legendary Viking town unearthed by Niels Ebdrup
- Vanishing Languages by Russ Rymer
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