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The biological impacts of the Fukushima nuclear accident in Japan on the pale grass blue butterfly
See on Scoop.it – Pahndeepah Perceptions The collapse of the Fukushima Dai-ichi Nuclear Power Plant caused a massive release of radioactive materials to the environment. A prompt and reliable system for evaluating the biological impacts of this accident on animals… Continue reading
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Harvard Researchers Find A Creative Way To Make Incentives Work
See on Scoop.it – Pahndeepah Perceptions Incentives are all the rage: employee bonus pay, app badges, student grades, and even lunch with President Obama. See on feedproxy.google.com Continue reading
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zenpundit.com » Blog Archive » Pew II: Prevalence of belief in the Jinn
See on Scoop.it – Pahndeepah Perceptions . . I’ve been ‘fond’ of the jinn (djenoun) since first encountering them in the brilliant short stories of Paul Bowles, and notably his A Hundred Camels in the… See on zenpundit.com Continue reading
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Author Interview: Gene Doucette « Tracy
Author Interview: Gene Doucette « Tracy James Jones http://ow.ly/cXkbu Continue reading
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In the beginning, there was fan fiction: from the four gospels to Fifty Shades | Books | guardian.co.uk
I always a enjoy a good piece of sober thinking that points out the implicit slippery slope fallacy lurking in so many Jeremiah like wailings of the “end is nye”… It’s tempting to get caught up in paradigm-shift apocalypticism, but… Continue reading
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Postal Savings Banks… An Important Idea
Right now, there are few ways for poor people to even try to save what little money they have. It is often hard to get an account, and even if you do, fees will be too high or interest too… Continue reading
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The issues with Ayn Rand…
Yesterday, I posted a lecture by David Harvey on Karl Marx Das Kapital. I did this because the majority of people have not even read Marx’s main work and do not really get what he is talking about. On the… Continue reading
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