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Center for Study of Public Choice
The Center for Study of Public Choice, a unique research institution at , provides a single location where eminent scholars conduct innovative research, publish their findings and conclusions in a variety of print and electronic media, and teach the science of public choice. Under the current leadership of Don Boudreaux and James M. Buchanan, professor emeritus and Advisory General Director, The center builds on the groundbreaking economic and political science theories for which Buchanan was awarded the Nobel Prize in economics. The center draws both visiting and resident scholars and students from all over the world. Its faculty and researchers lecture and conduct seminars locally, across the , and abroad. For more information see our link to About us.
Aristotle held the belief that man is a rational animal. A growing body of research suggests otherwise. Rational: of or based on reasoning (from Webster’s New World Dictionary). This ambiguous definition is similar to what is given by many people when asked to define rational.
Are We Rational Animals? | World of Psychology
Tribunal de las Aguas de Valencia - Wikipedia, la enciclopedia libre
El Tribunal de las Aguas de Valencia , conocido también como Tribunal de la Vega de Valencia es el Jurado de Riegos encargado de dirimir los conflictos por el agua de riego entre los agricultores de las Comunidades de Regantes de las acequias que forman parte de él ( Quart , Benàger i Faitanar , Tormos , Mislata , Mestalla , Favara , Rascanya y Rovella ). El conjunto de estas acequias forman la denominada Vega de Valencia , sobre la que tiene jurisdicción el Tribunal, que junto a la Acequia Real de Moncada , con jurisdicción aparte, forman la huerta de Valencia . En septiembre de 2009 es designado Patrimonio Cultural Inmaterial de la Humanidad. [ 1 ] ...testimonio único de una tradición cultural viva: la de la justicia y el gobierno democrático y autogestionario de las aguas por parte de los campesinos andalusíes en el ámbito de las huertas que rodeaban las grandes ciudades de la fachada mediterránea de la Península Ibérica...
Too often, we don’t appreciate what we have until it’s gone. That could happen with the World Wide Web—unless we protect the basic principles on which the Web is built. Protecting principles is also the key to the Web’s future growth, an argument laid out in "Long Live the Web," written as an exclusive for Scientific American by the man who invented the biggest killer app of all time, Tim Berners-Lee .
The Web is (not) dead…if you believe Scientific American , not Wired | Observations, Scientific American Blog Network
Along rivers in Bali, small groups of farmers meet regularly in water temples to manage their irrigation systems. They have done so for a thousand years. Over the centuries, water temple networks have expanded to manage the ecology of rice terraces at the scale of whole watersheds.
Lansing, J.S.: Perfect Order: Recognizing Complexity in Bali.
The Web Is Dead. Long Live the Internet | Magazine
You wake up and check your email on your bedside iPad — that’s one app. During breakfast you browse Facebook, Twitter, and The New York Times — three more apps. On the way to the office, you listen to a podcast on your smartphone. Another app. At work, you scroll through RSS feeds in a reader and have Skype and IM conversations. More apps.
Maine towns grapple with water-rights issues | SeacoastOnline.com
When Poland Spring's interest in taking water from the Branch Brook Aquifer for bottling purposes became public last year, a local clash over water rights was born. The situation has left residents and town officials with a dilemma: what can be done locally to protect the best interest of the community? While towns like Wells and Kennebunk are still struggling to find ways to deal with the water debate, other Maine communities where Poland Spring has ties have faced similar issues.
RENEE MONTAGNE, host: And when it comes to health care bill, one of the biggest issues dividing Democrats and Republicans, is whether everyone should be required to have health insurance. Most Democrats say they should, Republicans disagree. But as NPRs Julie Rovner reports, that wasnt always the case. JULIE ROVNER: For months now, Republicans have been hammering away at the proposed requirement that every American have health insurance. Here was Utah Republican Orrin Hatch, during the Senate floor debate in December.
Republicans Spurn Once-Favored Health Mandate | WBUR & NPR
Accessibility vs. access: How the rhetoric of “rare” is changing in the age of information abundance » Nieman Journalism Lab
A Rare Glimpse of William Burroughs’ Belongings , proclaimed a recent Fast Company headline . But what does “rare” really mean these days? A photograph indexed by Google is hardly “rare,” what with being instantly accessible to a few billion people.