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December 2014:
Almost 170,000 illegal migrants have arrived in Italy by sea during 2014, about three times the 2013 total
(Wall Street Journal)
Germany sends weapons and soldiers to Iraq
(Wall Street Journal)
Telomere and agint
(NCBI)
The US economy grows faster than most
(Yahoo News)
Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama are the most admired people in the USA
(Gallup Poll)
China also bans gmail
(CNN)
Skybox
(Wall Street Journal)
The CIA spied on the US Congress
(The Atlantic)
North Korea and the hackers
(BBC)
Improvements in Afghanistan
(Economist)
Jihadists killed 5,000 people in just one month around the world
(BBC news)
Russia's troubles
(Economist)
Carbon emissions from livestock equal carbon emissions from transport
(FAO)
Carbon emissions from livestock equal carbon emissions from transport
(BBC News)
Democrats lose the South
(National Journal)
November 2014:
Erdogan's view of women
(BBC News)
GM food is safe and good for the world
(Plosone)
How fanatical environmentalists kill science and become the new witchhunters of the 21st century
(New Yorker)
Why Honduras is the murder capital of the world
(Telegraph)
Global business confidence slips to a five-year low
(Markit)
Seniors in the USA are more likely to have chronic illnesses and to say they struggle to afford health care than are seniors in other industrialized countries
(Kaiser)
Ukraine's mess
(BBC)
The Pacific age
(Economist)
Italy is back to the Middle Ages burning scientists at the stake
(Economist)
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The performance of former communist countries
(Branko Milanovic)
Mexico's energy revolution
(Economist)
The collapsing rouble
(Economist)
The revival of fossil fuels
(BBC News)
how Republicans could change the way presidents are elected
(BBC News)
Persecution of Muslims in Myanmar
(Associated Press)
Persecution of Muslims in Myanmar
(Los Angeles Times)
How Luxembourg got rich by helping tax evasion
(Guardian)
How Luxembourg got rich by helping tax evasion
(Deutsche Welle)
October 2014:
Amazon's investments skyrocketing
(Wall Street Journal)
Building a Fitbit for the city
(Wall Street Journal)
A plan for the Republican Party: do nothing
(National Review)
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Global income inequality: the past two centuries and implications for 21st century
(Branko Milanovic)
A solution for nuclear waste
(MIT Technology Review)
Safer nuclear power at half the price
(MIT Technology Review)
September 2014:
Nearly half of American households are financially insecure
(Marketplace)
Female college graduates are paid less than male ones
(American Association of University Women)American Association of University WomenAmerican Association of University Women)
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The Internet as an advertising platform
(The Atlantic)
Ebola research at Scripps
(Scripps)
75% of the victims of ebola are women
(Slate)
How ebola may spread in the future
(New York Times)
Understanding the ebola virus
(PBS)
Peter Thiel on monopolies
(Wall Street Journal)
Israel to export natural gas to Jordan
(Washington Post)
August 2014:
80% of all transactions in Germany are conducted in cash
(Quartz)
Germans don't buy homes, they rent
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We are our bacteria
(New York Times)
Israel's 'targeted assassination' of international law
(Haaretz)
July 2014:
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Rising opposition to radical Islam in the Middle East
(Pew Poll)
The risks of marijuana
(CNN)
In defense of Israel
(Sam Harris)
The third intifada
(Foreign Affairs)
The deadliest outbreak of ebola ever
(CNN)
Latin America moves away from the USA and towards China
(Economist)
A secret plan to nuke the Moon
(CNN)
France's African adventures
(Economist)
A US political commentator thinks that soccer and the metric system are signs of moral decay
(Canada.com)
How Israel's prime minister Netanyahu invented a war
(Forward)
Muslim attitudes towards terrorism
(Pew)
Marijuana kills
(CNN)
June 2014:
Gun homicides declined 49 percent in past 12 years
(Politifact)
Blackwaterr: a terrorist organization hired by the US government to fight "terrorists"
(New York Times)
France's stagnant economy
(Economist)
Shinzo Abe's reforms in Japan
(Economist)
Cell phones hurt sperm
(Time)
Bush's toxic legacy in Iraq
(CNN)
May 2014:
Brazil became a world leader in environment protection
(Economist)
Debate about double taxation and tax evasion
(New York Times)
Debate about double taxation and tax evasion
(Forbes)
Between 1870 and 1912, the epoch of the gold standard, industrial production in the USA rose by 682%, and between 1946 and 1970, the Bretton Woods gold standard system, US industrial production rose by 209%
(Forbes)
April 2014:
Long-term calorie restriction is highly effective in reducing the risk for atherosclerosis
(Washington University School of Medicine)
The coming monetary apocalypse
(Forbes)
The National Rifle Association kills a German boy
(BBC News)
One fifth of China's soil is contaminated
(BBC News)
There is enough gold to restore the gold standard
(Gold Standard Now)
March 2014:
It is a myth that GM farmers in India commit suicide
(Economist)
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Billionaires With Big Ideas Are Privatizing American Science
(Economic Times)
Japan's women
(Economist)
CHina's economy
(Economist)
India imports three times more weapons than China
(Times of India)
Corruption in India
(Economist)
China's foreign policy and Russia
(Economist)
February 2014:
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We're running out of antibiotics
(Atlantic)
Study Finds Greater Income Inequality in Nation's Thriving Cities
(New York Times)
Income inequality in big US cities
(Brookings Institute)
Slowing fertility in Asia
(Economist)
Report on corruption in the European Union
(European Union)
January 2014:
The "Fragile Five" economies with weakening currencies
(BBC)
Foreign Direct Investment
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Larry Downes on Net Neutrality
(Forbes)
Industrial scale killing of detainees by the Assad regime in Syria
(Guardian)
The future of jobs
(Economist)
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Germany's post-nuclear energy policy
(Economist)
Social media statistics for 2013
(Jeff Bullas)
The USA refuses to enforce net neutrality
(CNN)
Brazil's oil failure
(Washington Post)
Domestic maids killed in Pakistan
(BBC News)
The future of inequality
(Economist)
European Union report reveals massive scope of secret NSA surveillance
(DW)
Jonathan Mayer helped spearhead the Internet's "do-not-track" initiative
(Princeton Alumni Weekly)
Big data and privacy
(Princeton Alumni Weekly)
Energy crisis in Pakistan
(Washington Post)
What Online Dating Can Teach About Economics
(Stanford)
Indian girl raped twice and set on fire
(BBC News)
How to boost your immune system
(Harvard University)
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