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Could This Video Save China?
Chinese journalist Chai Jing, in her runaway Internet success "Under the Dome," about the pollution catastrophe in China ( YouTube ) Hundreds of millions of people in China have watched this...
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Finally I Hear a Politician Explain My Country Just the Way I Understand It
Crossing the Edmund Pettus Bridge 50 years later (Jonathan Ernst/Reuters) I've been in transit or offline all of today and didn't see President Obama's Selma speech in real time. I'm catching up with...
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Interesting Software Update: Tinderbox How-To, Jerry's Brain
From the new guide to Tinderbox software (Mark Bernstein, Eastgate Systems) It's been a while since the latest update on this front, so here is a quick mention of developments in two programs I've...
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Welcome to American Futures 3.0
Bitwise headquarters in the Mural District of Fresno (James Fallows) Welcome to the third season of our American Futures series, which kicked off here in the summer of 2013 and is being relaunched...
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Next Up From Fresno: High School for Overlooked 'Kids in the Middle'
After the Vietnam War, the Fresno area was a major relocation site for Hmong refugees and immigrants. A statue honoring their service is near the county courthouse. Fresno is a heavily "majority...
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One of Our Major Newspapers Says: What the Hell, Why Not Start Another...
Slim Pickens likes this idea. (From Dr. Strangelove) (Wikimedia commons) When I published my "Tragedy of the American Military" article last month, some people said: No, it's an exaggeration to claim...
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California's Centers of Technology: Bay Area, LA, San Diego, and ... Fresno?
One of Fresno's downtown murals, this one on the Econo Inn. The "Mural District" headquarters of Bitwise Industries is a few blocks away. ( Creative Fresno ) Earlier this week I mentioned a tech...
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My Brush With Best-Sellerdom, Part Deux
David Allen I've made my living as a writer for a very long time now, but I've kept a respectful (wistful) distance from the realm of runaway bestseller hits. The second book with my name on the...
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Who Would Jesus Bomb, and Other Imponderable Questions
A bumper sticker I saw over the weekend in California Over the weekend I mentioned the full-throated endorsement, in a Washington Post op-ed by Joshua Muravchik, for going to war with Iran. In case...
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Why Paralyzed Politics Are Making America More Unequal
Boss Tweed, by Thomas Nast, as originally published in Harper's Weekly (Wikimedia Commons) One obvious problem for 21st-century America: the seeming zero-sum paralysis of our national-level governing...
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The Scandal of the Anti A-10 Campaign: Chickenhawk Chronicles Resume
A-10 Warthogs doing low-altitude drills at the Barry Goldwater range south of Phoenix ( USAF Senior Airman Christina D. Ponte, via Aviation Spectator ) A week ago, my wife Deb and I were driving down...
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Elections Have Unintended Consequences, Knesset Edition
And the winner is ... (Reuters) In 2004, more than 62 million Americans voted to bring George W. Bush and Dick Cheney back for a second term. I'm sure that some of those millions did so to register...
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What Does the Netanyahu Victory 'Mean' for America?
The victor (Reuters) Last night I argued that there was a systematic difference in the way election results are seen inside and outside the country that was voting. From the inside, voters often...
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More on What the Netanyahu Victory 'Means'
How it can look when there are grounds for discussion: Menachem Begin, Jimmy Carter, and Anwar Sadat in 1978. ( Photo by Bill FitzPatrick, from Carter Library, via Wikipedia ) Following this item last...
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Stages of a Downtown Comeback: Fresno Begins the Long Climb
An at-its-best view of Fresno's current Fulton Street Mall. It's one of the oldest pedestrian malls in the U.S. ( City of Fresno ) I've been warming up to do a big report on what is interesting, and...
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Lee Kuan Yew, the Leader Who Lasted
Young Harry Lee Kuan Yew after his People's Action Party won Singapore's elections in 1959. (Reuters) By the time of his death on Monday at age 91, Lee Kuan Yew had been out of the Western limelight...
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The Glamorous Life of a Journalist, Sponsored Content Edition
"The Brain-Sucker: or, the Miseries of Authorship." How a similar offer might have looked in the 1780s. (Wikimedia commons) Over the past few weeks I've received emails like the one below almost every...
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If You're in Northern Mississippi This Weekend, Check Out 'The Blue and the...
Historical re-enactment by students at Mississippi School for Math and Science in Columbus, MS, site of this weekend's concert everts (James Fallows) Last May, Deb Fallows wrote an account of a...
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What Hypoxia Could Do to Pilots
A U.S. physiological technician on-board a C-17 Globemaster III ensures that crew members do not succumb to hypoxia. (Reuters) No one knows the cause of the latest airline disaster, the Germanwings...
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Could the Germanwings Crash Have Been Avoided?
Leonhard Foeger/Reuters As I write I am listening to German Chancellor Angela Merkel's announcement that the Germanwings crash in France this week was apparently a deliberate act of suicide/murder....
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