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Tourist mecca Notre Dame also revered as place of worship
VATICAN CITY (AP) — The soaring beauty of Paris' Notre Dame Cathedral as it echoed with Gregorian chants so moved French poet Paul Claudel on Christmas Day 1886 that the avowed atheist converted...
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Alex Tabarrok
Hilariously bad title on many fronts.
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Student slated to attend Western Michigan University beheaded in Saudi Arabia
A Saudi Arabian student who was arrested in 2012 as he was about to fly to Michigan to attend college was beheaded by the Saudi government
Alex Tabarrok
Student slated to attend Western Michigan University beheaded in Saudi Arabia freep.com/story/news/edu… via @freep
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Sri Lanka blasts: Fatima Ibrahim identified as one of the suicide bombers; wife of SL millionaire blew self up with unborn child
Fatima, intelligence sources said, is believed to have been present amid a group of veiled suicide bombers swearing allegiance to the Islamic State
Firefighting: A Plea for Discretion
Firefighting, the new primer on the financial crisis by the all-star team of Ben Bernanke, Timothy Geithner and Henry Paulson (BGP), is a well written, short overview of the consensus position on the U.S. financial crisis. The book has a number of...
logangraham/arXausality
A every-so-often-updated collection of every causality + machine learning paper submitted to arXiv in the recent past. - logangraham/arXausality
Verifying Identity as a Social Intersection by Nicole Immorlica, Matthew O. Jackson, E. Glen Weyl :: SSRN
Most existing digital identity solutions are either centralized (e.g., national identity cards) or individualistic (e.g., most “self-sovereign” identity proposa
Not Going Postal
Dueling declined as state capacity, measured by post offices, expanded: Abstract: Scholars have long tried to understand the conditions under which actors choose to use violent versus non-violent means to settle disputes, and many argue that...
Microsoft staff are openly questioning the value of diversity
“Many women simply aren’t cut out for the corporate rat race, so to speak, and that’s not because of ‘the patriarchy,’” a Microsoft employee wrote.
Former Google CEO Eric Schmidt on the impact of AI on jobs
Former Google CEO Eric Schmidt, former Google Senior Vice President Jonathan Rosenberg and Google Executive Communications Director Alan Eagle on Bill Johnson's impact on leadership in Silicon Valley, the leadership strategy at Google and the...
The lessons a former football coach taught the top leaders in Silicon Valley
Former Google CEO Eric Schmidt, former Google Senior Vice President Jonathan Rosenberg and Google Executive Communications Director Alan Eagle on the legacy of Bill Johnson on the top executives in Silicon Valley.
George Mason University President Has 'Painful' News For Students Upset With Kavanaugh Hiring
George Mason University students upset about Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh teaching a class in England this Summer have, in so many words, been told by president Angel Cabrera to take a hike.
What do voters want? Better job opportunities tops the list
Healthcare and drinking water too are among the top five issues for Indian voters, reveals ADR’s national survey. Defence and terrorism are not priority issues for most
Is Dentistry Safe and Effective?
The FDA may be too conservative but it does subject new pharmaceuticals to real scientific tests for efficacy. In contrasts, many medical and surgical procedures have not been tested in randomized controlled trials. Moreover, dental care is far...
Misdemeanors by the Numbers by Sandra G. Mayson, Megan T. Stevenson :: SSRN
Recent scholarship has underlined the importance of criminal misdemeanor law enforcement, including the impact of public-order policing on communities of color,
Quadratic Voting in the Field
The Democratic caucus in the Colorado state legislature wanted to get their member’s feedback on the bills most important to them. That’s hard to do because each member has an incentive to claim that their pet bill is by far the most important bill...
Pete Buttigieg Stuns Campaign Crowd By Speaking To Manufacturing Robots In Fluent Binary
DES MOINES, IA—Revealing that he taught himself the language after developing an interest in computer science and artificial intelligence, Democratic presidential candidate Pete Buttigieg stunned a campaign crowd Wednesday by speaking to...
Notre Dame Cathedral Is Crumbling. Who Will Help Save It?
It's seen more than its share of epic dramas, but now there is another challenge