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I am not advocating that everyone go around with a lacrosse stick and beat their children into fun new shapes, but a solid smack on the behind for a kid who is clearly getting out of line is something that every parent should have in their back pocket. Trust me, you miss it when it’s gone.
A Checklist For Your Mid-Twenties « Thought Catalog
A Big Surprise from the Edge of the Solar System June 9, 2011: NASA's Voyager probes are truly going where no one has gone before. Gliding silently toward the stars, 9 billion miles from Earth, they are beaming back news from the most distant, unexplored reaches of the solar system.
A Big Surprise from the Edge of the Solar System - NASA Science
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Le mea culpa des maths à la finance ? Pas encore | ParisTechRevi
Corollaire : les grands pays mathématiciens, la France au premier rang d’entre eux, font partie des coupables car ils ont offert une caution scientifique à des règles du jeu pathogènes. La finance a besoin de matheux de haut vol et elle vient les chercher là où ils sont, en France, un pays marqué en outre par une forte culture bancaire et financière. La presse du monde entier s’est déchaînée sur les matheux, du Wall Street Journal au Monde en passant par le magazine en ligne Wired . Pour l’accusation, les ingénieurs financiers formés à la française ont contribué à pousser vers l’abîme la finance américaine puis, par contagion, la finance mondiale.
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We test a lot of software around here, on the web, on our desktop and on our phones. It's a great job to have, but only so much of what we test really sticks and becomes a part of our daily routines. Every once in awhile we like to compare lists in our team chat room and then share them with you. Think you find a lot of great stuff online? You should try sharing it with people using Posterous . The user experience for this curation and blogging tool is remarkable, a real model for other app makers to check out.
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The Perils of Studying Economics « The Baseline Scenario
By James Kwak Patrick McGeehan at the New York Times recently wrote about a New York Fed study finding that studying economics makes you a Republican. The headline conclusion is that the more economics classes you take, the more likely you are to be a Republican. Majoring in economics or business is also more likely to make you a Republican.