The Triumph of the City
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The Triumph of the City
From the 4th annual Boston Book Festival, panelists, including Edward Glaeser, author of The Triumph of the City: How Our Greatest Invention Makes Us Richer, Smarter, Greener, Healthier, and Happier, discuss the city of Boston. Other panelists include Ayanna Pressley, Boston City Councilor, and Barbara Berke, senior policy advisor to Boston Mayor Thomas Menino. The panel was moderated by Bob Oakes, host of WBUR’s Morning Edition.
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Climate Protesters and World Leaders: Same Planet, Different Worlds
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Friday’s global climate protests put the gap between activists and many of
the world leaders preparing to meet in New York City next week into stark
focus.
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Travel group Thomas Cook battles for survival with final creditor meeting
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Bosses at Britain's Thomas Cook were meeting lenders and creditors on
Sunday to decide whether the world's oldest travel company could survive
until Monday...
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Andy Goode Excited By Manu Tuilagi’s Potential For England Ahead Of World Cup Opener
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Manu Tuilagi can make the difference for England at the Rugby World Cup,
according to former fly-half Andy Goode.
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M.I.T. Media Lab, Already Rattled by the Epstein Scandal, Has a New Worry
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Former researchers for a “food computer” initiative at the lab say the
project’s leader misled outsiders about how it was going.
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Facebook has acquired Servicefriend, which builds ‘hybrid’ chatbots, for Calibra customer service
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As Facebook prepares to launch its new cryptocurrency Libra in 2020, it’s
putting the pieces in place to help it run. In one of the latest
developments, it...
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'Shop Contest: Oh No, Claptrap, Winners!
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Last week I asked you fine Kotaku readers to celebrate the release of
Borderlands 3 by sticking Claptrap, the annoying robot sidekick from the
games, int...
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Strange magnetic pulses that happen at midnight detected on Mars
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- Scientists reveal preliminary findings from NASA's Insight Lander on
Mars.
- The lander has been on Mars since November 2018.
- The data in...
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Notes and References for: Lecture Notes: Introduction to Economic History: The Ancient Economy
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Lecture Notes: Introduction to Economic History: The Ancient Economy **1:
The Biggest-Picture Perspective** 1.1: The Old and Middle Stone Ages
References: ...
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Meet Facebook’s latest fake
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Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg, a 35-year-old billionaire who keeps refusing
to sit in front of international parliamentarians to answer questions about
his ...
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Depression gets worse — but why?
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Teen depression is getting worse, writes Charles Fain Lehman. “Nearly 15
percent of American teenagers experienced major depression in 2018,” a
large incre...
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These Waterproof True Wireless Headphones Include Bluetooth 5.0 For Just $30
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TaoTronics SoundLiberty 53 True Wireless Headphones | $30 | Amazon | Promo
code KINJA78B
Read more...
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Schedule for Week of September 22, 2019
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The key reports this week are August New Home sales, and the third estimate
of Q2 GDP.
Other key indicators include Personal Income and Outlays for August ...
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In Case You Missed It...
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This week at CBPP, we focused on the federal budget, health, state budgets
and taxes, federal taxes, and the economy.
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Global 2000: The World’s Best Regarded Companies 2019
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Trustworthiness and company performance go hand in hand for credit card
performers, so it’s no surprise that Visa earned the top spot in our third
annual l...
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Updates to YouTube's verification program
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Update as of 3 p.m. on 9/20/19:
Yesterday, we announced changes to the verification badge. The idea behind
this update was to protect creators from impe...
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Links (9/13/19)
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How we make decisions depends on how uncertain we are - EurekAlert! A new
Dartmouth study on how we use reward information for making choices shows
how hum...
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Transitioning ThinkProgress
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Many years ago, we embarked on a new experiment: moving ThinkProgress from
an organizational blog to a progressive news site, powered by reporters and
edit...
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Bifurcar 'blockchain': universos paralelos de cadenas ingobernables
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Los usuarios de Nano han demandado a sus desarrolladores por una pérdida de
criptomonedas valorada en 150 millones de euros. Si prospera, estarían
obligado...
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The Blog Moves On
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But the show goes on.
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The US Treasury’s missed opportunity
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The US Treasury recently published the first in a series of reports
designed to implement the seven core principles for regulating the US
financial system ...
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The 'Only' Profession to 'Celebrate What It Means to Live a Life'
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In another strange sign of the mounting culture wars, Viola Davis’s
emotional Oscars tribute to artists has become political fodder.
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'Diamond' Joe Gutnick dealing until the end
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Joe Gutnick was still wheeling and dealing in the days leading up to his
bankruptcy.
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The search for the best middle-class tax cut
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Say you want to help struggling middle-class families by cutting their
taxes. Say you want to figure out an actually helpful plan to do that, and
not just ...
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Jilly Cooper hits out at 'fatal' impact of local government cuts to libraries
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Cooper, who has an OBE for services to literature, has attacked David
Cameron for allowing more than 350 libraries to close across Britain
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IBM buys Ustream: is it a workforce communication play?
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IBM has added Ustream to a long list of video technology company
acquisitions in the recent past -- like Clearleap acquired last month --
buying the stream...
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Book Expo America, BookCon, Detroit Public TV Video
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Tweets about #BookCon2015 OR #BEA15
*Date: Fri May, 29 2015 11:00 AM CDT — Sun May, 31 2015 3:00 PM CDT*
*Detroit Public TV will bring live inside the boo...
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