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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TikTok download ban temporarily blocked by US judge in a blow to the Trump administration
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A federal judge on Sunday ruled in favor of TikTok, just hours before the
download ban was scheduled to go into effect.
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TikTok Wins Reprieve From U.S. Ban
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A federal judge’s preliminary injunction means the app stores can continue
offering the video app for downloads for now.
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‘My truth’
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“Everyone is entitled to his own opinion, but not his own facts,” said
(probably) Daniel Patrick Moynihan. We’re not in a “post-truth” society,
writes Keit...
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Sunday Night Futures
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Weekend:
• Schedule for Week of September 27, 2020
Monday:
• At 10:30 AM ET, *Dallas Fed Survey of Manufacturing* Activity for
September. This is the last ...
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Ransomware Attacks Take On New Urgency Ahead of Vote
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Attacks against small towns, big cities and the contractors who run their
voting systems have federal officials fearing that hackers will try to sow
chaos ...
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ASX to start higher after fresh US tech bounce
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The ASX200 is expected to rise on Monday following week-ending gains on
Wall Street. Mega-cap tech stocks fuelled the US rally.
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The Week In Games: Lock S-Foils In Attack Position
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It’s time to do some barrel rolls and other cool spaceship maneuvers while
quoting* Star Wars* lines, because *Star Wars Squadrons* comes out later
this ...
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Universe works like a cosmological neural network, argues new paper
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- Physicist proposes that the universe behaves like an artificial neural
network.
- The scientist's new paper seeks to reconcile classical physi...
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This is how police request customer data from Amazon
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Anyone can access portions of a web portal, used by law enforcement to
request customer data from Amazon, even though the portal is supposed to
require a v...
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This Week in Apps: Redesigning the iOS 14 home screen, app makers form ‘fairness’ coalition, latest on TikTok ban
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Welcome back to This Week in Apps, the TechCrunch series that recaps the
latest OS news, the applications they support and the money that flows
through it ...
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Briefly Noted for 2020-09-25
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Well, a decade late and many dollars short, we seem to have become the
conventional wisdom! Would only that the _Economist_ had listened to our
arguments, ...
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In Case You Missed It...
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This week at CBPP, we focused on poverty and inequality, food assistance,
health, state budgets and taxes, and the economy.
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Three steps to keep your YouTube account secure
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In the spirit of World Password Day, we encourage all creators to bolster
the security of their Google accounts. Unfortunately, over the past several
month...
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32+ Years...
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Huawei Working On 5G Radar Tech For Self-Driving Cars
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Current chairman Xu Zhijun said Huawei is working on millimeter-wave radar
and laser radar for use in autonomous vehicles as part of an “ecosystem” of
car-...
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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, estarĂan
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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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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The World's Billionaires
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Carlos Slim Helu takes the No. 1 spot on Forbes' annual list of the world's
richest as a record 164 billionaires return to the ranking amid the global
econ...
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