dave723After Facebook fails | We need to start equipping buyers with their own tools for connecting with sellers, and for engaging in respectful and productive ways. That is, to improve the ability of demand to drive supply, and not to goose up supply to drive demand, and failing 99.x% of the time. (blogs.law.harvard.edu)
How to Stop Wildlife Poachers | Over the past 20 years, chimpanzees, gorillas and other great apes have declined the most in areas lacking a security force to protect them. Conversely, parks and protected areas with armed guards and anti-poaching patrols have seen population increases. (nytimes.com)
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The Great Healthcare Rip-Off | "The more I have understood, the saner single-payer appears. If the free market cannot work in healthcare - and it has failed spectacularly in this country to provide even a semblance of value-for-money - then it may be time to grasp the nettle." (andrewsullivan.thedailybeast.com)
Heist of the century: Wall Street's role in the financial crisis | Since the 1980s, much of the global financial sector has become criminalised, creating an industry culture that tolerates or even encourages systematic fraud. The crisis of 2008 was a natural outcome and continuation of this pattern. (guardian.co.uk)
"So Rich, So Poor": Peter Edelman on Ending US Poverty & Why He Left Clinton Admin over Welfare Law | "I’m very much in support of Occupy. The idea ... of the 1 percent and the 99 percent ... all fits together - we really should be all one country." (democracynow.org)
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Jim Hightower: Snarling Banks | Very few Americans on this side of the ATM machine think that the biggest problem in Washington is that the moneychangers don't have enough clout. But, incredibly, here they come with a super PAC intended to force lawmakers to bow even deeper to their needs. (commondreams.org)
This Is What Tyranny Looks Like | The historic street demonstrations of 2012 will be meaningless unless citizens use the power of the vote this year to remove the worst offenders from office. They can start with the Representatives and Senators who voted NO to due process rights. (commondreams.org)
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Why China Won’t Rule | The sensible question, then, is not whether China will replace the US, but whether it will start to acquire some of the attributes of a world power, particularly a sense of responsibility for global order. The question does not admit of a clear answer. (project-syndicate.org)
submitted ago by dave723 to worldpolitics
Radical Life Extension Is Already Here, But We're Doing it Wrong | Life spans of several hundred years are bound to be socially disruptive in one way or another; if we're headed in that direction, it's best to start teasing out the difficulties now. (theatlantic.com)
submitted ago by dave723 to Foodforthought
Aaron Sorkin at Syracuse University Commencement | "Don't ever forget that you're a citizen of this world, and there are things you can do to lift the human spirit, things that are easy, things that are free, things that you can do every day. Civility, respect, kindness, character." (centralnewyork.broadwayworld.com)
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How Psychedelic Drugs Can Help Patients Face Death | “If insurance companies knew about our outcomes, they might get a lot more interested in what we’re doing here. When you make people less afraid to die, then they’re less likely to cling to life at a huge cost to society.” (nytimes.com)
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“I Am Whatever You Say I Am”? | An admirable person cultivates an environment where she is recognized as the kind of person she imagines herself to be, but she is nevertheless happy to enter other environments where she is seen very differently. (bigthink.com)
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Radical Life Extension Is Already Here, But We're Doing it Wrong | Life spans of several hundred years are bound to be socially disruptive in one way or another; if we're headed in that direction, it's best to start teasing out the difficulties now. by dave723in Foodforthought
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