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Extremely powerful photo series about inner-city poverty and marginalization in Troy, NY (about 35mi from where I live, and a town I briefly went to grad school in.)
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Saudi activists protest the arrest of activists with a virtual hunger strike, wary of violating laws against political assembly.
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When you build broken models, you make bad decisions. We overestimated cod's ability to reproduce, and ended up with a collapse of the Atlantic cod fisheries. Interesting to think about the context of fiscal risk models
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I was curious what my friends at Center for Global Development thought about the election. Turns out they'd already published a book full of advice for the President-Elect.
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Erik Hersman and I speak with a Radio Netherlands correspondent (a brilliant young journalist from Ghana) at the PICNIC conference. Discussion of African innovation and the perception problems the continent faces.
November 7th, 2008 at 12:27 pm
The Alternet photo essay was amazing. I gre up in Syracuse, so I know that territory intimately, but the essay still blew me away.