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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
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- Axess
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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
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- Darwinian Conservativism
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- DMOZ Open Directory Project
- E-Commerce Times
- Earth Observatory
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- 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
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- Five Books
- Forbidden Planet
- Freakonomics
- Frink Server Pages
- Future of Children
- Gapminder
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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
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- James Lileks
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- Megan McArdle
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- The Daily Galaxy
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- The Legatum Institute
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- 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
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- The Winston Churchill Centre and Museum
- Thomas Sowell
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- 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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- The Key To Success? Grit by Angela Lee Duckworth
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- When Class Became More Important to a Child's Educ...
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- Why Teach English by Adam Gopnik
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- The Unbound Prometheus, Introduction by David S. L...
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- Texas African-American students rank fourth nation...
- Are we making mouse brains bigger? by Tyler Cowen
- Thanks, Mr. L: Elmore Leonard’s life-changing advi...
- Stanley Fish Turned Careerism Into a Philosophy by...
- Perceived Criminality, Criminal Background Checks,...
- The Effect of Criminal Background Checks on Hiring...
- Jobless Blacks Should Cheer Background Checks by J...
- Immigration, diversity, and economic prosperity by...
- The Long-Term Impacts of Teachers: Teacher Value-...
- Mobility for the Poor: Car-Sharing, Car Loans, and...
- Arise, Ye Wretched! by Matthew Walther
- When Corrections Fail: The persistence of politica...
- Out of Enclaves, a Pressure to Accommodate Traditi...
- The Dutch Accent: Elmore Leonard’s Talk by Anthony...
- Complexity and the Ten-Thousand-Hour Rule by Malco...
- Interactive Map Color-Codes Race of Every Single A...
- In defense of 'bad' writers by Hector Tobar
- Approximate quotations by Mark Liberman
- Journalistic quotation accuracy by Mark Liberman
- Questions and answers by Mark Liberman
- More Is More: Why the Paradox of Choice Might Be a...
- Practice Makes Perfect, If Your Genes Play Along b...
- 17 Problems Only Book Lovers Will Understand from ...
- The Economic Case for Saving the Humanities by Chr...
- America 3.0: The Coming Reinvention of America by ...
- Despite Common Core, States Still Lack Common Stan...
- The High Chances of Being Poor by Matt Bruenig
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- Science bible stories, take 27 by Mark Liberman
- The Government Profits from Student Debt Defaults ...
- Highlighting Key Trends in the Project Management ...
- The High Cost of Low Performance from PMI’s Pulse ...
- Are we seeing skill mismatch after all? by Tyler C...
- The Indebted States of America by Steven Malanga
- Extended Unemployment Benefits Make Sense by Megan...
- The King of Cats by Henry Louis Gates, Jr.
- Reviewing the Movies: Audiences vs. Critics by Cat...
- Why ‘The Family’ Matters in Economics by Michael H...
- Multigenerational Poverty, Crime Control, and Civi...
- A Steeper Climb for Single Parents by David Leonhardt
- What if the President Lied to us? by David Sirota
- Bambi Meets Godzilla In The Middle East by Walter ...
- Suspect in Huntington Beach riots arrested after “...
- Retronaut website
- On drug sentencing, Obama again shows the law is n...
- Government Graft, Corruption and Retaliation in De...
- Germany Fights Population Drop by Suzanne Daley an...
- 2012 Annual Survey of Journalism & Mass Communicat...
- Rough Type website
- Why Don't People Want to Read E-books on Tablets? ...
- Changes in Pronoun Use in American Books and the R...
- When Leaning In Doesn’t Pay Off by Scott Schieman,...
- 31 Maps Mocking National Stereotypes Around the Wo...
- All the Poems of James Clerk Maxwell
- How Wonder Bread Fed the Women's Movement by Megan...
- The Code of Hammurabi translated by L. W. King
- Are Americans Still Tough on Crime? by Robert VerB...
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