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Arctic Adventurer: a Flicktion
Arctic Adventurer: a Flicktion, originally uploaded by ocean.flynn. In the few short months that I have spent in Nunavut, two mothers who had become my colleagues and friends, lost youthful sons to su… more →
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Πρόγραμμα του Συνεδρίου «RISK SOCIETY: CHALLENGES IN THE 21ST CENTURY”
chtouris wrote 4 weeks ago: SYNEDRIO-KOINONIOLOGIKIS ETERIAS-2009Πρόγραμμα του Συνεδρίου 2nd International Conference «RISK SOCI … more →
Risk Society: Challenges for the 21st Century
chtouris wrote 1 month ago: Risk Society: Challenges for the 21st Century Hellenic Sociological Society Key Note Speaker U. Beck … more →
Foucault and the neoliberal art of government
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Clare wrote 2 months ago: Posted on my site michel-foucault.com The art of government … which has now become the program … more →
The paranoid bubble of Offender Locator
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David wrote 4 months ago: TechCrunch reports that one of the Top 10 current iPhone apps in the USA is something called ‘ … more →
Arctic Adventurer: a Flicktion
Maureen Flynn-Burhoe wrote 4 months ago: Arctic Adventurer: a Flicktion, originally uploaded by ocean.flynn. In the few short months that I h … more →
Unprecedented economic and financial crisis reshapes thoughts on trust and integrity
Maureen Flynn-Burhoe wrote 4 months ago: Governing Board of the European Baha’i Business Forum (EBBF). 2009-06. “An Ethical Perspective … more →
Viral Mapping
Maureen Flynn-Burhoe wrote 6 months ago: View Larger Map Swine flu, aka A (H1N1) and North American influenza. Timeline 1994 Smithfield Foods … more →
When all that unites us is our fear
fourcultures wrote 7 months ago: At New Statesman magazine, Hugh Aldersley-Williams quotes Mary Douglas and Aaron Wildavsky’s R … more →
Everyone and a Roof: the Audacity of Imperfect Realism
Ryan Cunningham wrote 7 months ago: EDAR featured on CNN Last week, a co-worker tipped me off to the EDAR (‘Everyone Deserves a Ro … more →
Grisham's Social Issues Wrapped around a Novel
Maureen Flynn-Burhoe wrote 8 months ago: Will John Grisham’s legal drama The Appeal (2008) join other literary works like Upton Sinclai … more →
Reimagining the Why
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Ryan Cunningham wrote 10 months ago: NPR reports on a paper recently published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences whi … more →
Virtual Money? $14 trillion lost from world stocks in 2008
Maureen Flynn-Burhoe wrote 10 months ago: The credit crisis erased $14 trillion (McKeef 2008-12-31) from world stock markets in 2008. Where do … more →
Economics 101: Rewriting the Textbooks
Maureen Flynn-Burhoe wrote 11 months ago: Deborah Yedlin (2008-12-30) of the Calgary Herald’s Business section succinctly summarized the … more →
NYU sues GMAC's chair Merkin re:Madoff tie: US bailout GMAC
Maureen Flynn-Burhoe wrote 11 months ago: US Circumlocution Offices [1]: Federal Reserve approved General Motors (GMAC) Financial Services … more →
Mapping Bernie Madoff Making Off with Money
Maureen Flynn-Burhoe wrote 11 months ago: View Larger Map It reads more like fiction than mainstream news. “But, at about the time of Hi … more →
Volumizer Resurrection Eleven
rikowski wrote 11 months ago: Volumizer Resurrection Eleven The Volumizer was Glenn Rikowski’s AOL blog. It was started up on … more →
Unintended Consequences
dsantore wrote 1 year ago: by dsantore Prostate cancer patient Dana Jennings (who also happens to be a New York Times editor) … more →
Risk Society and the Cost of Doing Nothing
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Ryan Cunningham wrote 1 year ago: James Murray reflected insighfully on risk last week over on the BusinessGreen blog. We’re na … more →
The Food Security & Safety Puzzle
Josh Greenberg wrote 1 year ago: One of the current era’s most pressing political, economic and public health issues is food se … more →
