• Skeptic: Bonobos, Left & Right Primate Politics Heats Up Again as Liberals & Conservatives Spindoctor Science by Frans de Waa
  However, it is interesting that so many people wish to deny the undeniable relationship between humans and chimps, and at the same time cannot seem to help finding political meanings in primate behavior that supports either a liberal or conservative agenda. On so simple a question — how much sex and violence do chimpanzees and bonobos exhibit — rides so much political angst about human nature and culture. Fortunately the facts can help sort through the fiction, and Frans de Waal is just the scientist to be our guide.
  with economylogy evo evolution psy
• Sokushinbutsu: The Self-Mummified Monks of Japan
  For three years the priests would eat a special diet consisting only of nuts and seeds, while taking part in a regimen of rigorous physical activity that stripped them of their body fat. They then ate only bark and roots for another three years and began drinking a poisonous tea made from the sap of the Urushi tree, normally used to lacquer bowls.
  with japan philosophy psy
• subprime works
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• Summer Readings Prof. Michael B. McElroy (last updated, December 2005)
  The Travels of a T-Shirt in the Global Economy: An Economist Examines the Markets, Power, and Politics of World Trade, by Pietra Rivoli ||The Company of Strangers: A Natural History of Economic Life by Paul Seabright ||Freakonomics by Steven Levitt ||Stephen Dubner: The Wisdom of Crowds by James Surowiecki ||Paul Blustein: The Chastening: Inside the Crisis that Rocked the Global Financial System and Humbled the IMF + And the Money Kept Rolling In (And Out): Wall Street, the IMF, and the Bankrupting of America. ||William Easterly's The Elusive Quest for Growth: Economists' Adventures and Misadventures in the Tropics ||Russell Roberts's The Choice: A Fable of Free Trade and Protectionism + The Invisible Heart: An Economic Romance
  with biz book economylogy
• Temple of the Seven Golden Camels
  Comic Strip Artist's Kit (Redux) learn how to sketch draw
  with art design
• Temple of the Seven Golden Camels: Hitchcock - Lifeboat
  Character Introductions
  with script tutorial videofilm
• Ten Word Wiki - The Express Till For The Internet
  Front Page InfoInfo TalkTalk Search: Ten Word Wiki is an Encyclopedia for the ADD generation. We describe everything in ten words exactly. Here's the Index Some random things. Here's the [WWW]Facebook group and [WWW]Twitter account Oh and if you like this sort of stuff then you can catch us doing more of the same over at [WWW]http://www.GiftedKid.co.uk TWW is a MSI production, please contact us at tenwordwiki@gmail.com
  with fun net system:unfiled utils w2
• That's 2 shillings and sixpence in old money | MetaFilter
  Ever wondered what old amounts of money would be worth today? Or what you could buy with your current salary if you went back 200, 400, or 600 years? Now you can find out with a tool that converts English currency from 1270 onwards into today's prices. Based on Treasury records, it tells you that Mr Darcy's £10,000 a year would now be worth nearly £350,000, or that your house would only have to be worth the equivalent of £500 now to qualify for the vote after 1832.
  with britain economylogy history
• The Anatomy of a Search Engine
  with computer science by 5 users
• The Art of Measurement The Agonist
  I want to talk a bit about management measurement. I’ve spent a number of years now in a good sized multinational, and I’ve watched management trying to gain control through measurement. And mostly I’ve watched as they’ve gained the wrong sort of control; as they’ve crystallized behaviour in ways that lose more from employees than they gain.
  with biz w4
• The Atlantic Monthly | December 2004 : Will Iran Be Next? by James Fallows
  Soldiers, spies, and diplomats conduct a classic Pentagon war game—with sobering results
  Soldiers, spies, and diplomats conduct a classic Pentagon war game—with sobering results
  games iran nuclear war
  with geostrategy iran mecf military usa
• The day I almost led the Iraqi army - Salon
  Right after the fall of Baghdad, hundreds of desperate disbanded troops asked me -- a middle-aged journalist -- to give them jobs. That's when I knew everything was going terribly wrong. When people ask me what went so wrong in Iraq, as they frequently do after learning that I reported from there early in the war, I offer a glib reply: "Let me tell you about the day I almost led the Iraqi army." Then I commence my very strange story, one that never fails to amuse, bewilder and ultimately dishearten anyone who has ever wondered why combat that was supposed to end on May 1, 2003 -- you know, "Mission Accomplis
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• the Economist: China and the internet: The party, the people and the power of cyber-talk
  see also openneyinitiative.net on the great firewall of china
  At present the party has the upper hand. It is starting to sweat, though
  with china computer geostrategy net
• The Gwigle Game: Can you figure out what is being Googled for by looking at the results?
  google test
  Gwigle: an educational game to help you use Google more effectively
  casual cheat game gwigle linez online
  with gaming net by 2 users (all private)
• The Heritage of the Great War / The Great War in Color - 6
  WWI colour pics <<photo>>
  with art graph history military
• The Joel Test 12 Steps to Better Code - Joel on Software
  The Joel Test 1. Do you use source control? 2. Can you make a build in one step? 3. Do you make daily builds? 4. Do you have a bug database? 5. Do you fix bugs before writing new code? 6. Do you have an up-to-date schedule? 7. Do you have a spec? 8. Do programmers have quiet working conditions? 9. Do you use the best tools money can buy? 10. Do you have testers? 11. Do new candidates write code during their interview? 12. Do you do hallway usability testing?
  with computer design w2 by 6 users
• The Long Tail - Why the future of business is selling less of more
  Wired editor Anderson declares the death of "common culture"—and insists that it's for the best. Why don't we all watch the same TV shows, like we used to? Because not long ago, "we had fewer alternatives to compete for our screen attention," he writes. Smash hits have existed largely because of scarcity: with a finite number of bookstore shelves and theaters and Wal-Mart CD racks, "it's only sensible to fill them with the titles that will sell best." Today, Web sites and online retailers offer seemingly infinite inventory, and the result is the "shattering of the mainstream into a zillion different cultural shards." These "countless niches" are market opportunities for those who cast a wide net and de-emphasize the
  A public diary on themes around my books
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• The Long Wave
  with economylogy media w2
• The maps from the Voyages Extraordinaies
  On this page you will find scans of all the maps that were included in the original editions of Jules Verne’s novels. Apart from the original maps as published in the Hetzel editions, I have also received a number of maps in exactly the same style, but in another language, or with some minor differences. I keep these other maps on a different page. The majority of these maps use the meridian of Paris as prime meridian.
  with art map script
• The New York Review of Books: Conspicuous Proliferation: War Made New: Technology, Warfare, and the Course of History, 1500 to
  our revolutions in warfare since 1500 around which Max Boot chose to organize his book. It ends in a fog of acronyms for weapons still on the drawing boards, uncertainty about future military revolutions, and "The Danger of Too Much Change—and Too Little." In between Boot found many persuasive things to say about how changes in military technology and management affected the course of European and world history, illustrating each of his military revolutions with detailed accounts of three specific battles or campaigns.
  Preview of an article by William H. McNeill from The New York Review of Books, December 21, 2006
  with design evo evolution geostrategy history military w4

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