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| Misdirected Nigeria blowback RT : FUBAR YouTube video RT : Un dernier verre avant la guerre ? |
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| FUBAR YouTube video RT : Un dernier verre avant la guerre ? |
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| Shadow banking in China: the dynamics of illicit wealth: |
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| Voilà the global real estate bubble! RT In Rio slums, as drug dealers get pushed out, expats move in: |
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| Ask him about how he thinks Wall Street Risk Management should be reformed -- and how regulators should enforce this. |
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| QOTD: "Los tontos dicen tonterías; los inteligentes las hacen." - Emilo Gómez-Orbaneja |
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| Agreed: you need both! Alas, many people think that if you get the right data the questions ask themselves. |
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| Something I learned today: the iPhone autocorrects Übermensch to include the umlaut, but MS Outlook does not. |
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| Ahem... RT : who is a pro on modernization theory? |
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| Bruce Schneier on the political advantages of exaggerating terrorist threats: |
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| bait! RT : Text mining and intellectual history: methodological caveats: |
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| Bingo! *Questions* and *hypotheses* must be developed via humanistic immersion, and then *tested* quantitatively. |
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| Those high on the false intimacy of the Internet need no longer be coerced by the state to relinquish their privacy: |
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| The futurist's role is that of an inverted exorcist: instead of warding off demons, one summons them, that they may be confronted. |
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| Have recently turned 42, I now have dispositive evidence that Deep Thought was wrong. |
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| I'm eating processed bugs and drink water purified from sewage by genetically modified bacteria, but at least there's 7 billion of us! |
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| Rather than finishing writing this book – such a legacy platform! – should I instead start a "New York Review of Tumblrs"? A Q for ? |
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| A last tweet from : Iconic climate change images will unfortunately become commonplace. One from Australia: |
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| Motivated metamodeling and machine-learning methods: via |
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| The idea that Neanderthals were less intelligent than coeval modern humans is pure racism. There's no evidence for it |
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