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“A very little key will open a very heavy door” (Charles Dickens, Hunted Down)
How to change communities
Via Raineer Chu: The Shalom house was created by urban poor mothers, consisting of four pillars or posts symbolizing the four minimum basic needs (housing, livelihood, education and health). The pillars are...
The real inequality gap
Via The Economist: …today’s rich increasingly pass on to their children an asset that cannot be frittered away in a few nights at a casino. It is far more useful than wealth, and invulnerable to inheritance tax. It is brains. Click the link to see more: Education and...
They Cracked This 250-Year-Old Code, and Found a Secret Society Inside
Via Instapundit and Wired: For more than 260 years, the contents of that page—and the details of this ritual—remained a secret. They were hidden in a coded manuscript, one of thousands produced by secret societies in the 18th and 19th centuries. At the peak of their...
Kyle Westaway: Career In Beta
Via Business Insider: If the recession taught us anything, it's that the rules of the work world have changed. As companies streamlined their operations and new industries emerged as dominant forces, there's no turning back. The keys to surviving in this new era of...
Kyle Westaway: Career In Beta
Via Business Insider: If the recession taught us anything, it's that the rules of the work world have changed. As companies streamlined their operations and new industries emerged as dominant forces, there's no turning back. The keys to surviving in this new era of...
Lt General Freakley on Veteran Unemployment
Via Business Insider: While veteran populations are disproportionately under-employed, they’re also disproportionately qualified for our most in-demand roles. So it raises questions about what systematic differences are present in this community that put these more...
Lt General Freakley on Veteran Unemployment
Via Business Insider: While veteran populations are disproportionately under-employed, they’re also disproportionately qualified for our most in-demand roles. So it raises questions about what systematic differences are present in this community that put these more...
Book Review: The Half-Life of Facts
Via Arts and Letters Daily and WSJ.com: The point, according to Samuel Arbesman, an applied mathematician and the author of the delightfully nerdy "The Half-Life of Facts," is that knowledge—the collection of "accepted facts"—is far less fixed than we assume. In every...