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POPSDo protests work? When and how... This article intrigued me. I think that bottom line answer is "yes, they do" but not all protests get much press or make much change. What is the difference between effective protests and ineffective ones? Top experts answer...
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POPSsustainable energy without the hot air fixing the energy dilemma? well at least making an honest stab at it it sounds like- am going right from this article to the pdf file- for further reading-just wanted to pass this on...
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POPSThe Freakonomics Paradox Seth Godin tells us the value of starting something new. More often than not, trying to copy something already existing isn't a good idea. Creating something of your own will probably give you much more value.
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POPSThe New York Times' terror freak-out http://freakonomics.blogs.nytimes.com/2007/08/08/if-you-were-a-terrorist-how-would-you-attack/ But while the critics say Levitt is shaking things up at the Grey Lady, it looks more like he is fitting in perfectly. After all, it was NYT fear mongering over Iraqi nukes and other weapons that helped get us into the war (recall Judith Miller's abominable "reporting")... The Times is again using fear to sell papers and, perhaps, someone else's agenda, as it has for years.
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POPSJunk Science: Global Warming's Trillion Dollar Giveaway A trillion dollars to special interest groups from this? Amazing, and what a waste. Forcing business to become less profitable and less effective, this surely is going to effect the 'free marketplace' in a negative way. But then they're not about 'free markets'--check out the book Freakonomics.
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POPSClass matters in school success The big caveat here is how researchers are measuring "readiness." In America, there is a huge push to get kids reading earlier and earlier, but studies have shown that such worry isn't warranted until much later in Elementary school. All pushing seems to do is drive children away from a natural love of reading. There was a similar kind of (flawed) study by the Freakonomics folk.
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POPS12 Popular Wikis that actually ‘WORK’ (6) WikiSummaries - short, quick summaries for thousands of books. (Summaries: Freakonomics, Getting Things Done, …, see other bestsellers) (7) WikiMapia - cool mashup between Google Maps and wiki-style editing. Lets you browse, view, search and add descriptive notes to any location on the globe. (8) Wiktionary - multilingual, comprehensive, user-edited dictionary. Provides word definitions, etymologies, pronunciations, sample quotations, synonyms, antonyms and translations. (9) Uncyclopedia - extremely entertaining wikipedia clone, that is filled with funny and not-necessarily correct articles. Check out: Colonel, Britney Spears, Donald Trump, …or an image pulled from an article about Women. (No offense ladies, it’s just funny…)
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