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Nobel prize winner Gerard ‘t Hooft explains what you need to know to make a meaningful contribution to theoretical physics and win your own Nobel. He thinks it will take you about five years, if you really focus. Great overview of the “foundations” of the
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A straightforward and easy to understand explanation of some comparative forms of internet filtering from Nart Villeneuve. Very useful for someone trying to figure out what sites are filtered in their country
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Suspects from 19 countries, including Amir Mohamed Meshal from the US, are being held in prisons in Ethiopia and interviewed by FBI and CIA. HRW calls it an “outsourced Guantanamo” and accuses the US of being the ringleader…
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Astounding piece by Chip Ward about how public libraries have become defacto shelters for the homeless mentally ill, and how this fact is a condemnation of how the US deals with homelessness and mental illness
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The single best way to damage America’s business competitiveness? Cut the number of H-1B visas available. Guess what Congress has decided to do… ColinMcC – isn’t this what your committee is supposed to fix?
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“Patrick Chappatte is a global soul,” and it’s this lived globalization that makes him such an incisive commentator on globalization, Bruno Giussani argues. Interesting ideas in a plug for a friend’s book of editorial cartoons
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Another interesting virtual currency, the QQ coin, which is sufficiently widepread in China to cause concerns about its ability to shift valuations of realworld currencies
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YouTube blocked in Thailand over video insulting to the King.
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Dave Marash explains why he chose to become the US face of Al Jazeera English and why working for the network is consistent with his proud identity as a jew.