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2011

Another Lost Wannabe Bites the Dust

Blair / Hitchens Debate

Bloodshed and the Roman Empire

Chris Tucker on Black President

Davutoglu likes Sinanoglu

Do schools kill creativity?

How SMS Swung An Election

In Between Two Waves

Jon Stewart Stand-up

Movie created using a Game

Obama Impression

Our institutions are limited by pre-digital technology

You Are How You Work

400 Hundred Years in a Convent, 50 Years in Hollywood

Bureucracy - Part I

Bureucracy - Part II

Conservatives for Liberty

Google Map of Protests

World’s Laziest Teacher

Great stagnation or external growth?

The Great Stagnation

It May Be a Sputnik Moment, but Science Fairs Are Lagging

Middle East after Hosni Mubarak: impact of a revolution

Nokia’s Suicide Note

Non-Democratic History

The Reagan Revolution

The Sad State of Journalism

Scholarly-Industrial Complex

Sudburry Valley

Take That Kill-Switch and Shove It Up Your Ass

Viewpoint: Too early to celebrate in Egypt?

The Big Society

Chavez says capitalism may have ended life on Mars

M-m-m-my Civilization

France and Libya

The Fundamentals of Industrial Ideologies: Centralization

The Fundamentals of Industrial Ideologies: Concentration

The Fundamentals of Industrial Ideologies: Maximization

The Fundamentals of Industrial Ideologies: Specialization

The Fundamentals of Industrial Ideologies: Standardization

The Fundamentals of Industrial Ideologies: Synchronization

The Integrators

Jon Stuart Mill on Education

Khanacademy on TED

The King’s Speech

Know the biases of your operating system

Einstein and Eddington

Fight of the Century: Keynes vs. Hayek Round Two

The Fundamentals of Industrial Ideologies

Myers-Briggs Test

Newspapers: Your Doom is Nigh

Peter Lawrence Reflects on the Nature of Scientific Research

Post-Academic Manifesto

Reform the PhD system or close it down

Shortage of Artists

Smooth Reassurance

Abandon lectures: increase attendance, attitudes and attainment

At the touch of a hyperlink

The Burgeois Theory

China In The Plex

Institutional Decay Will Continue

Girl ‘murdered’ by Roman soldiers in north Kent

Jeff Bezos and Nuclear Fusion

Mathematics and the Computer

More Data Is Better Than None

Osama bin Laden Dead

The service elevator

The Sharing Economy

Support Network

Was Dubya SJ or SP?

Worst ever carbon emissions leave climate on the brink

Analytical Shortcuts

China’s Cell Phone Pirates Are Bringing Down Middle Eastern Governments

How To Party Your Way Into a Multi-Million Dollar Facebook Job

The Inheritance of Rome

Ninety gaffes in ninety years

No joke: This is the biggest battery breakthrough ever

Noise Cancelling

On the last gap

Ritualistic Science

U.S. Underwrites Internet Detour Around Censors

Wireless Local Apps for Bookstores

Sane in the Membrane

Github for Science

How Things Change

Learn More Math

The Man From Earth

Mathematics for the Moon

More on Aaron Swartz

More Regulation?

Rome Killed Jesus

Sadly He Did Not Succeed

Too Cool for School

Twitter Hashtags

What Is Wrong With Scientific Publishing

The Wrath Against Khan

The Annotated Toffler

The Calculus of Grit

Counterintuitive Trick

The Da Vinci Code

The Death of the American Dream

Different “In”

The Diminished President

I Wish It Was That Simple

Immediate Cut, Over a 10 Year Period

Living in a Factory

Math and Applications

The Patent Pledge

Shuttleworth on Patents

Things Are Getting Out Of Hand

America’s Non-Grand Strategy

Are jobs obsolete?

Asynchronized Education

The importance of stupidity in scientific research

The End of Work

Judgement by the People

Israel’s Bluff

Passing Fiat Cash Grenade

Scaling Quality

Speed of Light Beaten

Ad Campaigns Are Dead

Are Professors Obsolete?

Don’t Become A Scientist

Efficiency Is Killing Our Jobs

The forever recession (and the coming revolution)

How long will America last?

More on Leaders

More on Pairings

PhD, Graduate Studies

Project Selection

The Role Of Memory In Theory

Stallman on Jobs

Tablet Based Halloween Costume

Rewind patent laws to fast-forward innovation

UNESCO votes to admit Palestine; U.S. cuts off funding

Why arent we getting rich?

Codes, Axel Boldt Article

Copyright isn’t working, says European Commission

Credit Theory of Money

Data “Scientists”

Debt, Religions, Money

Demotivational Poster

Difference Engine: Luddite legacy

Continuous Rules

The Islamic Wall

The Logistic Equation

Mass Consumption

More on Empires

Outsourcing the job of muzzling the media

Statistical Insignificance

Anti-Intellectualism

The Bizarro World of Journal Publishers

Creeping Fascism

Death Knell for the Lecture

Harvard Entrance Exam 1899

How Many Computers?

Kim Jong Il’s Economic Legacy

Lessons from Hamilton

More on the Logistic Equation

More on SP Leaders

Perverse Incentives in Academia

Response: My Thoughts on Codecademy

Socrates and C-3P0

Three Manifestations