RT @lydiadepillis Peter Capelli lays it out: Why the "skills gap" explanation for unemployment is largely BS. http://www.nber.org/papers...
Aug 19, 2014
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RT @BloombergNews: CHART OF THE DAY: Hyperinflation in U.S. higher education: http://www.bloomberg.com/news... https://twitter.com/Bloombe...
Aug 19, 2014
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RT @DevinMcCutchen: This 1985 @sfchronicle gentrification quiz tells you if "your neighborhood [has] become 'upscale" https://twitter.com/DevinMc...
Aug 18, 2014
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RT @evolvingcities: Beijing subway offers passengers tickets in exchange for plastic bottles (via @sustainia) https://twitter.com/Sustain...
Aug 18, 2014
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RT @SportSourceA Complete list of FBS Teams and the number of Preseason AP-Ranked Teams they play against. https://twitter.com/SportSo...
Aug 17, 2014
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RT @TheTweetOfGod: Celebrity dumping an ice bucket on himself to raise money? Cute. Humanity dumping an ice cap on itself to raise sea levels? HILARIOUS.
Aug 17, 2014
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Deloitte findings: "growing concern among developers around the world about the financial health of the app economy" http://www.ft.com/cms...
Aug 17, 2014
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More pushback on labor issues / "In the sharing economy, a rift over worker classification" http://www.bostonglobe.com/busines...
Aug 17, 2014
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"The process of teaching and learning is an intimate act that neither computers nor markets can hope to replicate." http://www.nytimes.com/2014...
Aug 17, 2014
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"Piecemeal labor is hardly a new phenomenon. But..expedited by technology & packaged as apps, it has shinier veneer" http://www.nytimes.com/2014...
Aug 16, 2014
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RT @ssstrom: Wall St. profits from strained infrastructure and deregulation gone awry, while public pays more for electricity. http://www.nytimes.com/2014...
Aug 15, 2014
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So much for limiting special interest groups > "White House loosens restrictions on lobbyists" | http://www.reuters.com/article...
Aug 15, 2014
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Shit journalism RT @UpshotNYT: Celebrities die in threes, right? http://www.nytimes.com/2014... https://twitter.com/UpshotN...
Aug 15, 2014
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The distributed generation effect: Big utilities are buying consumer-facing solar startups. | http://dealbook.nytimes.com/2014...
Aug 14, 2014
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Good piece @ Der Spiegel |"Brave New Recycling Economy: Movement Turns Trash to Treasure" http://www.spiegel.de/interna... #C2C https://twitter.com/GeorgeD...
Aug 14, 2014
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"Scheduling is now a powerful tool to bolster profits, allowing businesses to cut labor costs with a few keystrokes." http://www.nytimes.com/interac...
Aug 14, 2014
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RT @hiltzikm: Latest Obamacare freakout: enrollment "plummeting" (Spoiler: not so) http://www.latimes.com/busines...
Aug 14, 2014
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“The obesity epidemic is becoming a national crisis, but almost nobody connects that with neighborhood design.” http://www.theatlantic.com/health...
Aug 13, 2014
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“Neighbourhoods that saw houses being sold for $210,000 four yrs ago are now marking up properties to $700,000” http://www.ft.com/cms... #ATX
Aug 12, 2014
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Who needs a soda tax..just show people the pyramid of sugar cubes they're about to drink. http://www.psmag.com/navigat...
Aug 12, 2014
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RT @alisaamiller: "Cause you're only given a little spark of madness, and if you lose that, you're nothing." Robin Williams, 1951-2014 http://t.co/IqMseIULcZ”
Aug 12, 2014
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Handy map shows which drought-stricken area your bottled water comes from. https://twitter.com/GeorgeD...
Aug 11, 2014
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"Rules prevent solar panels in many states with abundant sunlight" [latimes] http://www.latimes.com/nation...
Aug 11, 2014
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MT @pewresearch: Since '04, # of reporters dropped 17%. Jobs in PR increased by 22% http://www.pewresearch.org/fact-ta... https://twitter.com/pewrese...
Aug 11, 2014
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"Free markets can’t solve all our problems. Just ask Toledo." | http://www.nytimes.com/2014... |
Aug 11, 2014
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"dirty secret of the food movement is that the much-celebrated small-scale farmer isn’t making a living" http://mobile.nytimes.com/2014...
Aug 10, 2014
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RT @FERNnews: More than 90% of corn, canola, soybean + sugar beet crops are #GMO http://online.wsj.com/article... https://twitter.com/WSJGrap... via @WSJ
Aug 10, 2014
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Good piece from Dennis Dodd on the O'Bannon decision.."end of the collegiate model" http://www.cbssports.com/college...
Aug 9, 2014
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"nobody has really looked at the environmental impacts of offshore fracking, and we find that incredibly concerning” http://www.bloomberg.com/news...
Aug 8, 2014
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“This..calls into question the notion that disruptive technologies necessarily result in the demise of incumbents” http://knowledge.wharton.upenn.edu/article...
Aug 7, 2014
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Good piece from @bittman on the SWEET Act..would charge manufacturers a penny per teaspoon of sweetener. http://mobile.nytimes.com/2014...
Aug 6, 2014
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MT @CoolFoods Statistically significant" differences exist between #organic & nonorganic food. http://www.mariasfarmcountryki...
Aug 6, 2014
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