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Video – Dan Ariely: Beware conflicts of interest – http://t.co/fW2r2Y3

@GeorgeMonbiot doesn't have anything nice to say about #AcademicPublishing – http://t.co/mU63266 #

And while I'm on the topic: The Future of #AcademicPublishing at the How Power Corrupts symposium – http://t.co/zrvwDT6

DARPA wants a working manned starship for $500k – http://t.co/u0JxHRv

Video – Cornell’s Creative Machines Lab points two chatbots, Cleverbots, at each other and let them talk – http://t.co/F3ktj66

What's an engineer's worst nightmare? To realize that the supports designed for a skyscraper are flawed – http://t.co/VYJ2W0w

Capturing Near Earth Objects – http://t.co/stNhOeo

Great Video – Doyne Farmer: Macroeconomics From the Bottom Up – An Agent Based Model for the Current Crisis http://t.co/IYrWHi1

Free – A Sample Copy of Quantitative Finance – http://t.co/03iZmZJ

Wolfgang Wagner's Resignation Letter from the Journal 'Remote Sensing' – http://t.co/WqDAwnI

Goodbye to All That: Reflections of a GOP Operative Who Left the Cult – http://t.co/Pp3HMCd

The Great Bank Robbery – Nassim Nicholas Taleb and Mark Spitznagel – http://t.co/rN3vmYe

Embracing Complexity: An Interview with Michael J. Mauboussin at Harvard Business Review – http://t.co/VQ6meh9

A Profile of Rupert Murdoch in BBC archive footage – http://t.co/pGYMoWh

UK joins laser nuclear fusion project – http://t.co/SE2GN3W

RT @Yalemediaforum – W[h]ither the Kyoto Protocol? Durban and Beyond @SSRN – http://t.co/E4H4PCO

Culturomics 2.0: Forecasting Large-Scale Human Behavior Using Global News Media Tone in Time and Space – http://t.co/ZFCBngr

Pretty Cool. The clock of the Long Now http://t.co/gyCPmpV (2011) http://t.co/GN1YsMI (1998)

"We can manipulate the pointy-haired menace into picking the right plan by comparing it to the worst alternatives" – http://t.co/egYwbLo

RT @TimHarford: Henry Farrell offers constructive criticism of Eli Pariser's "filter bubble" – good review http://t.co/j67aTpo

RT @MoneyScience – 1st transatlantic communication cable in 10 years will cost $300m, save traders milliseconds – http://t.co/5mmztjD #hft

David Cameron would like religious groups to deliver public services. But can they be trusted?" http://t.co/pnAiaQy

Civil conflicts are associated with the global climate – http://t.co/CC7yPil

News Consumption Tilts Toward Niche Sites – http://t.co/XhqNzJS

@GeorgeMonbiot on astroturfing http://t.co/yV4AKqA and free market think tanks – http://t.co/vzV1uW2

Johann Hari: A personal apology http://t.co/R9rzpFTA

MT @physicsnews – The age of the qubit: A new era of quantum information in science and technology – http://t.co/c0bwl19L

Top story on Time. com right now is its 1955 obituary of Albert Einstein. http://t.co/PWSK5Upb

The absurdity of separating belief from action. One of the worst viewpoints on religion I've encountered for a while http://t.co/ApROt484

Charles Mackay’s own extraordinary popular delusions and the Railway Mania (pdf) http://t.co/arh6aBkN via @SimoleonSense

The Bulletproof Palestinian Stock Exchange – http://t.co/Df8CBzcl

Free Will and Quantum Clones: How Your Choices Today Affect the Universe at its Origin – http://t.co/JL1kQlis

Newly launched 'Ghost Algorithm' attracts twitter clicks due to cool name. http://t.co/sgmeJvPQ

Increased use of off-the-shelf products will help banks meet regulatory reporting demands in coming years – http://t.co/GFjrjplB

The 'silent majority' agrees with me, voters believe – http://t.co/jUwUwuNj

A story about the rise of the modern Think Tank and how in a very strange way they have made thinking impossible. http://t.co/JKpzyjYY

Political Change in the Digital Age: The Fragility and Promise of Online Organizing – http://t.co/GaGhxy86 @ssrn

Whatever Happened to the American Left? – http://t.co/VhUhJOWZ

Special Relativity, Time-Stamps and a Potted History of Communication Technology in Financial Markets http://t.co/GQdG7bY2

Will Quantum Computing make it out of the Lab? http://t.co/fNzkL3Xm

CIA Says Global-Warming Intelligence Is ‘Classified’ – http://t.co/XjpSRzvW

Is Alessio Rastani, the Honest Trader, actually one of The Yes Men? http://t.co/vXAka2vA – more on The Yes Men – http://t.co/oPInL4hM

Alessio Rastani and Yes Men now trending on Twitter – http://t.co/H8chNnDa

I, for one, welcome our new robot linkfest overlords – @AbnormalReturns http://t.co/KnXjSCk1 Brilliant.

And on a not altogether dissimilar theme: Business Insider and over-aggregation @FelixSalmon http://t.co/9xC1siey

RT @jonWturney: The future of physics (1): So long, and thanks for all the quarks – http://t.co/BOP9cvPO (good piece, good comments)

The case against the Kindle Fire as a low end tablet disruption – http://t.co/4YkDiq7M

Chris Woodhead, you are a fool. http://t.co/xhOe3Jyl

Insurance for the unhappy: This column looks at data on religion and life satisfaction from across the globe http://t.co/wWuDWMAd

Is Bayesianism Legal in Britain? http://t.co/JV4RZGD1

FTL neutrinos (or not) http://t.co/XMk4ElfP

Q&A: @EmanuelDerman on model risks, why quantitative finance is not a theory, and bailout ethics – http://t.co/rqzIWF5s

Princeton will prevent researchers from giving the copyright of scholarly articles to journal publishers http://t.co/I3eBDRDX

Steve Jobs dies aged 56 – http://t.co/UmrhC61I

'Benevolent sexism' is not an oxymoron and has insidious consequences for women http://t.co/FX4ho8kP

Lack of detail on clock synchronization in FTL Neutrino paper may explain paucity of methodological critiques so far http://t.co/Oi6Fz2Bj

Feynman, the graphic novel – http://t.co/s1QxvAA7

Very interesting video 'Occupy Wall Street' and the Media coverage – http://t.co/JJFelUfP

Climate change not factored into companies' value, warns UN chief – http://t.co/6dNcbcdn

Extract – The math genius who lives downstairs http://t.co/Ko2r6shS

Financial Journalism: Ethics and Responsibility in a Time of Crisis http://t.co/0hs20kfB

Phoenix Jones http://t.co/mAGCjqZQ, the Rain City Superheroes http://t.co/5oB0uYmY & the world of Real-life superheroes http://t.co/K3WPhF0k

PHD Comics: Automatically Junk – http://t.co/lAGYWqxl

Sort of hopeful, if true: Researchers examine impact of 'green politics' on recent national elections – http://t.co/cd6jnabu

Can't buy me love: Study shows materialistic couples have more money and more problems – http://t.co/85FukY9v

RT @jonWturney: Paul Allen: The Singularity Isn't Near http://t.co/ZBv5o4Iu (via @TechReview)

Not exactly finance, but interesting: Experimental Mathematics and the Power of Computing http://t.co/8qpv3zlp

One for you I think: @bengoldacre – Concern over conflicts of interest levels among expert panels http://t.co/zfpxqJ3G

MT @ian_fraser – Wall Street Journal Stole From Advertisers via Circulation Scam – http://t.co/TT6AO8Gx or did it? http://t.co/jlA63b4C

@OccupyWallStreet has already won, perhaps not the victory most of its participants want, but a victory nonetheless. http://t.co/PmMAGOgM

How Two Scammers Built an Empire Hawking Sketchy Software – http://t.co/NF6A9z8n

MT @ritholtz – A Map of Organized Climate Change Denial – http://t.co/hLf91osK – misses out the comment trolls in full force here.

'Menger 1934 Revisited' or 'An error that has wended its way through economics for 77 years' – http://t.co/9BbhKazf

RT @bengoldacre: All time favourite abstract so far, via @gingerly_onward http://t.co/mtzHs4G1

Relativistic motion of clocks on board GPS satellites exactly accounts for the superluminal neutrino result. http://t.co/csq1r820 – oh well.

Why do the BBC keep referring to 'alleged' corporate greed? Surely it is the entire basis of economic reality? http://t.co/C3vnKVHb #OWS

3 empirical studies of the effects of friend recommendations and general ratings on how online
users make choices http://t.co/EDeEd2A5

World debt comparison: The global debt clock – http://t.co/ZZhmK1DT

A statement issued by #occupylsx (Occupy London) on 16 October 2011 – http://t.co/Pg0nZ20F

Not one mention of the Occupy London camp on the 6 o'clock news last night: 'we're here indefinitely' – video – http://t.co/Jws92z6F