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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
- American National Corpus
- American Productivity & Quality Center
- American Rhetoric
- American Scientist
- Anecdotage
- Aphorisms Galore!
- Arts & Letters Daily
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- Ask Meta Filter
- Australian Academy of Science
- Australian Broadcasting Corporation
- Axess
- Babel Fish
- Ballotpedia
- BBC
- Ben Muse
- Best Evidence Encyclopedia
- Beyond the First World
- BibliOdyssey
- Big Questions Online
- Big Think
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- Brainy Quote
- British Library Magnificent Maps
- Bureau of Economic Analysis
- Bureau of Justice Statistics
- Business Insider
- 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
- CopperWiki
- 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
- EurekAlert
- Fabius Maximus
- FactCheck.org
- Faculty of Classics
- Fathom
- 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
- Giga Quotes
- Global Language Monitor
- Google Earth
- Google Trends
- 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
- Information on Self-Efficacy
- Institute for Fiscal Studies
- International Culture and Cognition Institute
- Internet Archive Texts
- Internet Public Library
- Iowahawk
- James Lileks
- Joel Kotkin
- Josephson Institute
- Julian Baggini
- Khan Academy
- Language Log
- Lapham's Quarterly
- Leader to Leader Institute
- Lessons Learned
- Library of 19th Century Science
- Library of Economics and Liberty
- Listverse
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- Many Eyes
- MapLight
- Media Myth Alert
- Megan McArdle
- Melvin Konner
- Metafilter
- Minding the Campus
- Minerva Classics
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- Moving Guides
- Mr. Bauld's English
- Nation Master
- National Association of Scholars
- National Bureau of Economic Research
- National Center for Education Statistics
- National Center for Policy Analysis
- National Institute for Literacy
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- National Science Foundation
- Neglected Books
- Neil Postman Online
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- New English Review
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- Next Big Future
- Niall Ferguson
- OECD
- OECD Programme for International Student Assessment
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- Online Etymology Dictionary
- Open Education
- Open Secrets
- OpenMarket.org
- Paleo-Future
- Patheos
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- PDMA
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- Poets.org
- Professor Bainbridge
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- Project Syndicate A World of Ideas
- Quadrant
- Quick MBA
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- Read Book Online
- Reason
- Research Digest Blog
- SAST Wingees
- Science
- Science Blogging
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- Seth Godin
- Siris
- Skeptic
- Skeptoid
- Slate
- Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy
- Stats
- SteynOnline
- Super-Economy
- TED Ideas Worth Spreading
- Text Patterns
- The American Chemical Society
- The American Society for Training & Development
- The Antifederalist Papers
- The Big Read
- The Booklist Center
- The British Library
- The Daily Galaxy
- The Daily Reckoning
- The Federalist Papers
- The Foresight Institute
- The Futurist
- The Institute for Advanced Technology in the Humanities
- The Internet Medieval Sourcebook
- The Internet Medieval Sourcebook
- The Internet Sacred Text Archive
- The Legatum Institute
- The Library of Congress
- The Library of Rhetoric
- The Literature Network
- The Locke Institute
- The Long Now Foundation
- The Neglected Books Page
- The New Atlantis
- The Online Medieval & Classical Library
- The Pew Charitable Trusts
- The Philosophy Pages
- The Proceedings of the Friesian School
- The Psy-Fi Blog
- The Rand Organization
- The Reader's Advisor Online
- The Science of Willpower
- The Singularity Institute for Artificial Intelligence
- The Social Affairs Unit
- The Speculist
- The Straight Dope
- The Talent Code
- The Technium
- The Winston Churchill Centre and Museum
- Thomas Sowell
- Timbro
- UN Human Development Reports
- US Census Bureau
- Value Based Management
- Visual Economics
- Visualizing Economics
- Walter Russell Mead
- Watts Up With That?
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- Little Poem, who made thee? from The Library Spider
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- Peer-review practices of psychological journals: T...
- Black Middle Class Abandoning PG County Public Sch...
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- A New International Database on Education Quality:...
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