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Texas schools to get controversial syllabus http://bit.ly/cbPoqH

The Peculiar Economics of Online Porn http://bit.ly/9GzP4i

The search for an evolutionary theory of altruism – http://bit.ly/cjEIsR

The Global Effect of the FIFA World Cup on the Stock Market – http://bit.ly/ah658v

Brilliant – Football Research – Finance, Economics and the FIFA World Cup – http://bit.ly/cfBz0U

In graphics: Supercomputing superpowers http://bit.ly/cjNdbD

"Guns don’t kill people, guns merely give people easy access to an efficient mechanism by which to kill people" http://bit.ly/9QiPlV

The Internet is Cool: Bettan(e)y One Name Study Organisation – http://bit.ly/cw5yDt

From climate change to vaccines, denialists are on the march. Why do so many people refuse to accept evidence? http://bit.ly/bIuopL

Listen live – BBC Radio 4 FM "Now: The Reith Lectures 2010: Surviving the Century" http://bit.ly/aubfXu

The Bathyscaphe Trieste – http://bit.ly/cutGYD

So surely 'experts double estimate of #oilspill size' & BP's 'cap' captures half the oil means no effective difference http://bit.ly/9sg2FS

Moral Hazard at Wikipedia http://bit.ly/c2ObzP

Brilliant. Video – Why Accountants Don't Run Startups – http://bit.ly/a3MR8g

Probability and the Tuesday Boy puzzle – http://bit.ly/9KGC2f

RT @abnormalreturns. I like this: The rise of the new Aggregation Economy – http://bit.ly/9cYPQy

The Times new paywall http://bit.ly/cexppi has apparently rendered it's Twitter Activity pointless. http://bit.ly/9DTfno

Amusing and timely for MoneyScience – http://bit.ly/cqzoCy

Twitter is trying to do something incredibly ambitious – namely, to build the messaging bus for the real-time web. http://bit.ly/dm8opD

@JustDoItFilm is a new feature documentary that follows the mischievous and risky world of UK climate activists – http://bit.ly/cVUmEN

The Runaway General – Stanley McChrystal. http://bit.ly/cR30By

The Bechdel Test for Women in Movies http://bit.ly/9qLsYX

I would have loved to see Muse at Glastonbury – http://bit.ly/cDq5g9

JavaZone Trailer- Java 4-ever – http://bit.ly/96161k

Sex, drugs and moral goals: Penn study of reproductive strategies and recreational drug use – http://bit.ly/aettvI

Dubious – Manchester historian deciphers hidden 'Plato Code' http://bit.ly/9nO33E

RT @psyfitec – Behavioural Finance’s Smoking Gun http://bit.ly/cJgR6r

Why Parents Hate Parenting – http://bit.ly/9aL8nS

Why Startups are Agile and Opportunistic - Pivoting the Business Model – http://bit.ly/9ZjfXh

According to Myers-Briggs I am an Ethical Intuitive Extrovert. http://bit.ly/a695oG

Wow. Wikileaks founder live interview is pretty crazy: http://bit.ly/cRQt17

Pretty cool collection of classic magazine articles: http://bit.ly/cuSMmj

There is little, if anything, in peer-reviewed journals about the paradox of good parents with bad children – http://nyti.ms/9xzHrH

Generation Y's steep financial hurdles – http://bit.ly/cIKYeh

World CO2 Emissions – infographic – http://bit.ly/bxz3EY

Econophysics in the New York Times – http://bit.ly/cJJUnD

Brilliant. Lion Bars Sketch – http://bit.ly/aol6gb – Moonlanding Sketch – http://bit.ly/cki9Js – Garnier Lab Sketch – http://bit.ly/cDpljW

Bristol Uni Professor says Quantum time machine 'allows paradox-free time travel' http://bit.ly/bcKFOB

video – Climate Change – Those hacked e-mails http://bit.ly/9sBhs8

The First Church of Robotics – http://nyti.ms/d9XKqa

Video – Monkeynomics 101 – http://bit.ly/dD3DC9

Teaching philosophy with Spider-Man. I'm not convinced. I like my philosophy dry and stale. http://bbc.in/aTBFLj

Brilliant – Twitter Movie Trailer:  Rated Awesome – http://bit.ly/bO2VZm

Responding to Threats of Climate Change Mega-Catastrophes (pdf) http://bit.ly/bnQJVv

The Web Is Dead. Long Live the Internet – http://bit.ly/dwCYKo

Ideas Having Sex: How prosperity and innovation exceeded the expectations of John Stuart Mill and Adam Smith http://bit.ly/b3gu08

Predicting Innovation Winners and Losers – http://bit.ly/b8oD9z

Peter Molyneux demos Milo, the virtual boy | Video on TED.com http://bit.ly/cPxx3D

This column argues recessions increase concerns about unemployment @ the expense of people’s interest in climate change http://bit.ly/9ICgKC

"Certified reduced basis approximation" – There's an App for that. http://bit.ly/9dCLJp

Amusing Ourselves to Death by Stuart McMillen – Aldous Huxley vs George Orwell: http://bit.ly/ciBodu

Giant Stinson Beach Bubbles – http://bit.ly/cLpEM7

HTML 5 Brilliance – The Wilderness Downtown. http://bit.ly/9D2O6V

Ambiguity is another reason to mitigate climate change – http://bit.ly/bkJgF2

Greetings from Idiot America – http://bit.ly/9ewi4O

Christian Groups: Biblical Armageddon Must Be Taught Alongside Global Warming – The Onion – http://onion.com/aaglnX

Pakistan Flood Pictures – http://bit.ly/cM6dHj

Video: David Mitchell's Soap Box: Climate change – http://bit.ly/clBOcJ

Religion has a surprisingly high correlation with poverty – http://bit.ly/auro6l

Why 'scientific consensus' fails to persuade – http://bit.ly/csoqiB

A three dimensional view of the distribution of the innermost material expelled by a recently exploded star http://bit.ly/9lHFfC

Falling in love costs you friends http://bbc.in/bhWqKR

Peer review highly sensitive to poor refereeing, claim researchers – http://bit.ly/dp55Fu

Live webcast of Tesco Express planning application meeting in Bristol – now http://bit.ly/9Jj0IQ

Did you know? Al Gore co-owns an investment fund with the son of Manchester United manager Sir Alex Ferguson. http://bit.ly/bGzUUF

@SSRN – The Razors-and-Blades Myth(s) – http://bit.ly/blZN1R

Blockbuster Worm Aimed for Infrastructure, But No Proof Iran Nukes Were Target – http://bit.ly/9iaLr2

The diplomacy of arms: Conflict as a negotiation instrument – http://bit.ly/bbg0U3

How Oliver Stone Got the Greed Right – http://bit.ly/ahSpkB

"credible ignition experiments" at a high-security building in Livermore, Calif., the size of a football stadium – http://bit.ly/9QEfcb

Brilliant. This is a news website article about a scientific finding – http://bit.ly/aXdf2h

Life Inc. The Movie. How The World Became A Corporation And How To Take It Back – http://bit.ly/9nmWbS

Atheists, agnostics most knowledgeable about religion, survey says – http://lat.ms/c8SzOG

We can't use it - so why the heck are we prospecting for new oil? http://bit.ly/c7GHYr

How reasonable it is to deceive yourself? http://bit.ly/cX7Poc

Rainforest Economics – http://bit.ly/cpDu54

"No field of innovation is more burdened by the judgments of idiots in the middle than film. " http://bit.ly/ad9uy9

"To grok is to share the same reality or line of thinking with another physical or conceptual entity." http://bit.ly/bWI3YZ

@SSRN In recent years, there has been concern expressed about the under-representation of women in academic philosophy http://bit.ly/9MOaEW

The Nobel Prize in Physics 2010 – http://bit.ly/cYL4zk