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I Fear This Will Be the Most Important News of 2012
No, not Wisconsin recall, European austerity-meltdown, Iranian nukes, or the next 50 items on the list.I fear it's this report, from a scientists' group at UC Berkeley, headlined as follows on the...
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Book News: Charlie Rose, FlightGlobal
In-house news: I mentioned yesterday that I had enjoyed talking with Charlie Rose earlier this week, despite the intimidating effects of having the taping just before and just after his sessions with...
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After the LinkedIn Hack: The One Step You Must Take Today
One of many topics I've "meant" to get to "as soon as I have 'time' " is the various ramifications of the Gmail hacking episode my wife endured last year, in which six years' worth of her...
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Edward Conard: 'It's Pretty Nice the Way It Is'
If you didn't see last night's Daily Show interview with Edward Conard, former Managing Director of Bain Capital, I very highly recommend it. The whole six minutes or so will give you the fullest...
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Trending: Rye IPAs
I mentioned several months ago my pleasant surprise at discovering Sierra Nevada's Ruthless Rye IPA at the local Kwik-E-Mart. That was a seasonal offering, whose season tragically appears to have...
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Why the Conard Interview Matters— or, Why the Democrats Need Karl Rove
I mentioned earlier that last night's Daily Show interview with Edward Conard, former managing director of Bain Capital, was important as a particularly stark (and non-self-aware) presentation of an...
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'Savor' Craft Beer Extravaganza: If You're in DC Tonight...
"Savor" -- an "American craft beer & food experience" -- closes out its two-night run in DC this evening. Information is here. I was there last night and recognized the sensation that previously I...
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For the Record: China in 2012 Is Not Like America in 2006
The Atlantic's home page and business channel are featuring an interesting item by Matthew O'Brien on the imbalances and weakening of the Chinese economy.I recommend the article, but for the record I...
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The Look of China From Above - 1
I've mentioned many times, most recently here, how valuable photographs are in conveying the unbelievable variations in wealth, modernization, landscape, and other aspects of modern China. The point...
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'Give Me Liberty—Oops, Unless I Can't Break a Filibuster'
A reader visiting Richmond sends this report:While here I took the opportunity to attend the weekly re-enactment of the Second Virginia Congress of 1775 at which Patrick Henry offered up his choice of...
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Our Eyes Have Adjusted ...
Hundreds of messages and photos have arrived, in response to two previous items (one, two) about the transformation in the physical types Americans have gotten used to seeing in daily life.First, a...
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Today's Chinese Aerospace News, and Its Bigger Meaning
As a reminder: my contention is that China's ambitions, progress, and frustrations in this field are proxies for its potential more generally. Thus I notice:1) Ambitions, from Business Insider. 2)...
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Let's Go Back to That 'Free Puppies' Scam
Last month I mentioned a bogus but perplexing email I had received. It was from asking about rates to place advertisements for giving away free puppies. So what was the angle?The answers flooded in, as...
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All-Purpose Update: Iran, China, Australia, Recession, TSA, Etc.
While traveling I am reminded of that modern truth: we are omni-connected in a bad way (crowds staring at devices in their hands when walking, driving, talking -- people will start making fun of this...
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Good News, Aerospace Dept.
Someone has to keep looking on the bright side:1) Synergy aircraft. This had a successful Kickstarter launch, and it looks very promising. 2) Equator aircraft. You have to like this one too.3) Lisa...
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Soft-Power Watch: China and Norway, America and the World
Reminder of our ongoing theme: All the varied elements of "soft power" -- those that together enhance a nation's prestige, moral influence and suasion, ability to make others willingly support its...
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A Guest Post for Father's Day, by Eric McMillan
I have been on the road, following the "Romney for America" bus-capade in Pennsylvania. Thus as a change of pace, and on the occasion of impending Father's Day, herewith a guest post by Eric McMillan....
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Postcards from the Bus-capade: Romney Road Report
Some scenes from this weekend's Romney for America bus tour through hard-pressed areas of small-town Pennsylvania. At a WaWa, in Quakertown -- where Romney ordered a hoagie and mixed with the crowd....
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WaWa vs. the Post Office: Bus-capade Update
I mentioned earlier that in his big rally on Saturday night at the historic Cornwall "iron furnace" near Lebanon, Pennsylvania, Mitt Romney used what he had learned during the day to illustrate the...
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Book News: Wired, Kojo Nnamdi, Flight Global, and Lots More
Catching up on the book-news home front:1) I will be on the Kojo Nnamdi show, on NPR from WAMU in Washington, today at 1pm EDT. Details here. Colbert ahead next month, details soon.2) A brief book...
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