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fastcompany:

Can you guess who has saved more lives?

Infographic of the Day: Bill Gates Is A Better Superhero Than Batman

Best part of being ultra wealthy: Living out childhood dreams. Like defeating malaria.

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Mugging for the camera. (Taken with instagram)

cryptofwrestling:

Kitty hopes to stop the Godzilla menace.

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Damn right he is. 

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The Trouble with Principles: Or, How to Not Lose Friends and Alienate People When Learning Economics (#OccupyWallStreet, #OWS)

Perhaps the most interesting bit, 

To casually label economics a science is at best aspirational, at worst manipulative, at a minimum misleading. At the introductory level, the issue at stake is less one of methodology than of how deferential the layperson or novice should be to the authority of expert or policy entrepreneur appeal to economic theory. Skepticism is always a virtue. When evaluating claims based on simple economic models, it’s self-defense.

I feel like this should be read alongside What We Learn When We Learn Econ by Christopher Hayes. It basically discusses his experience in an intro to econ course at the University of Chicago. To save you some time, it was not an overwhelmingly positive experience.

Meanwhile at Berkeley, the into to econ course is being taught by Brad DeLong during the spring. 

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My decision to skip Ec-10: vindicated.

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shortformblog:

climateadaptation:

Does that count as irony? Nicholas Kristof’s fb update…

The mark of the humble brag rises again. 

jtotheizzoe:

Hey Kids! Measles are Marvelous!

At least that’s what a new anti-vaccination children’s book would have you believe. Outright lying wasn’t enough for the anti-vaccination movement. Deceiving parents just wouldn’t do it. Now they are aiming square at the kids.

From the book’s description:

This book takes children aged 4 – 10 years on a journey of discovering about the ineffectiveness of vaccinations, while teaching them to embrace childhood disease, heal if they get a disease, and build their immune systems naturally.

“… build their immune systems naturally”? Do you know WHY we developed vaccines for measles? Because measles is not marvelous (just look at the symptoms).

Just like this book, it can be deadly.

Cant’ make this stuff up. Head -> desk.

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Um, for real? 

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Newt Gingrich • In a 1995 Vanity Fair profile. There are lots of fun tidbits in this piece. Even back then, Gingrich was thinking of a presidential run, but his then-wife Marrianne didn’t approve. “I don’t want him to be president,” she said, “and I don’t think he should be” (he eventually divorced her). Newt often describes himself oddly journalistic terms, as if he’s a pundit writing an op-ed column, and this was true in 1995 as well.  He says here that he’s “a mythical person,” “a psychodrama living out a fantasy,” and that “what makes me unusually intense is that I personalize the pain of war, the pain of children being killed.” source (via • follow)

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OMG SOMETHING I CAN AGREE WITH NEWT ON 

vintagegal:

Dolores Del Rio in Madame Du Barry (1934)

Oh. My. God. 

I want one in every color. 

prostheticknowledge:

Birge Harrison - Fifth Avenue at Twilight [c.1909]

Lovell Birge Harrison (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, October 28, 1854 – Woodstock, New York, 1929) was an American genre and landscape painter. Born in Philadelphia, he was the brother of T. Alexander Harrison, and studied with Carolus-Duran and at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts under Cabanel. In 1881 he exhibited at the Salon and in 1882 he returned to America and subsequently spent considerable time (1889-93) painting and sketching in Australia, the South Seas, and New Mexico. He received numerous prizes and medals, including the gold medal at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts in 1910.

[Oil on canvas, 76.2 x 58.4 cm]

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