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.
My Reading List
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The Grass Is Always Greener -- Unless You're Pandering For Votes
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California Sen. Kamala Harris' embrace of marijuana wasn't as notable as
was her shaky memory -- claiming she got high while listening to Snoop Dogg
and Tu...
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Bill de Blasio: The Path Amazon Rejected
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It could have answered the concerns of citizens. Instead it bolted.
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Star Wars: Demolition Was Twisted Metal With Rancors And Wookiees
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Have you ever wondered who would win in a fight between a giant Rancor,
Bobba Fett and an AT-ST? Then you might enjoy *Star Wars: Demolition*, a
game rel...
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Vision system for autonomous vehicles watches not just where pedestrians walk, but how
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The University of Michigan, well known for its efforts in self-driving car
tech, has been working on an improved algorithm for predicting the
movements of ...
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Toy Fair 2019: Power Rangers Lightning Collection adds Lord Zedd and more - CNET
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Exclusive: The Mighty Morphin villain is among several Power Rangers icons
coming to Hasbro's Lightning Collection.
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After allegations of sexual abuse, Afghanistan women’s soccer team fights for justice
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Detailed allegations surfaced months ago that officials from the
Afghanistan Football Federation (AFF) were sexually assaulting members of
the women’s foot...
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Canada's Freeland pushes end of steel, aluminum tariffs in meeting with Pelosi
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Canadian Foreign Minister Chrystia Freeland said on Saturday she had made
clear in a meeting with U.S. House of Representatives Speaker Nancy Pelosi
at the...
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Still Haunted by the Shadow of the Greater Recession...
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Behold, close-ups of the sand from around the cosmos
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- Microscopic photography exposes the beauty and strangeness of sand.
- Water wave action produces a startling variety of sand grains.
- That s...
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Photoshop diversity
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Very white (and apparently very blonde) York College of Pennsylvania
photoshopped two “diverse” students into a billboard photo, reports Scott
Jaschik in ...
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NBA All-Star Weekend 2019: Schedule, Participants, Odds For Dunk Contest, Three-Point Contest, More
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NBA All-Star Weekend 2019 is moving on to an exciting Saturday night of
action. Be prepared for the the Skills Challenge, Three-Point Contest and
Dunk Cont...
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Schedule for Week of February 17, 2019
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The key report this week is January existing home sales.
For manufacturing, the February Philly Fed manufacturing survey will be
released.
*----- Monday, ...
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A Mother Learns the Identity of Her Child’s Grandmother. A Sperm Bank Threatens to Sue.
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The results of a consumer genetic test identified the mother of the man
whose donated sperm was used to conceive Danielle Teuscher’s daughter.
Legal warnin...
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The gunman at the centre of a mass shooting in Aurora, Illinois, was about to lose his job before he opened fire
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[image: Aurora shooting]AP
- *Gary Martin, the gunman involved in a mass shooting in Aurora,
Illinois, was about to lose his job before he opened ...
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Links (2/15/19)
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Inflation: Stress-Testing the Phillips Curve - FRBSF Donald and the
Deflationists - Paul Krugman The friendly extortioner takes it all -
EurekAlert Economi...
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In Case You Missed It…
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This week at CBPP, we focused on health, housing, and the economy.
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Presidents' Day Sales, Ranked
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Even if you don’t particularly want to celebrate the president or the
presidency, you can just treat this as a weekend (possibly even a three day
weekend...
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As GE and Amazon move on, Google expands presence in Boston and NYC
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NYC and Boston were handed huge setbacks this week when Amazon and GE
decided to bail on their commitments to build headquarters in the
respective cities o...
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YouTube in 2019: Looking back and moving forward
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Dear Creators,
I’m excited to share some thoughts about 2019 and the year ahead, but first
wanted to take a moment and reflect on what was an unprecedent...
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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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