The Literary United States: A Map of the Best Book for Every State

http://www.bkmag.com/2014/10/15/the-literary-united-states-a-map-of-the-best-book-for-every-state/

The weirdest languages

http://idibon.com/the-weirdest-languages/

The Wal-Mart-ization of higher education: How young professors are getting screwed More and more faculty at America's colleges and universities are underpaid and undervalued. Can that change?

http://www.salon.com/2014/02/16/the_wal_mart_ization_of_higher_education_how_young_professors_are_getting_screwed/

American literature’s holy grail: The hunt for the Great American Novel

http://www.salon.com/2014/02/16/american_literatures_holy_grail_the_hunt_for_the_great_american_novel/

What Writers Earn: A Cultural Myth

http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/sara-sheridan/writers-earnings-cultural-myth_b_3136859.html

Great Novels can Change your Life...and your Brain Getting lost in a good book can actually change your brain, with neural paths forming in the same way as if you were actually living the experience, scientists have found

http://www.lewrockwell.com/2014/01/no_author/great-novels-can-change-your-life/

How Reading Fiction Helps You Think Better

http://bigthink.com/ideafeed/how-reading-fiction-helps-you-think-better

Lisa Bu: How books can open your mind (video)

http://www.ted.com/talks/lisa_bu_how_books_can_open_your_mind.html

BLACK: My journey to yo-yo mastery

http://www.ted.com/talks/black_my_journey_to_yo_yo_mastery.html

New research reveals Christianity's Buddhist roots

http://www.examiner.com/article/new-research-reveals-christianity-s-buddhist-roots

Joi Ito: I'm Not a Futurist, I'm a Nowist

http://www.redorbit.com/news/science/1112738844/human-gene-mutations-5000-years-112912/

Origin of the Romani People Pinned Down

http://www.livescience.com/25294-origin-romani-people.html

Is the novel beyond saving? Novelists believe they can't compete with the shiny objects on the Internet -- and therein lies the problem By Sam Byers, The Weeklings

http://www.salon.com/2013/01/14/is_the_novel_beyond_saving/

6 Ridiculous Lies You Believe About the Founding of America

http://www.pakalertpress.com/2012/10/23/6-ridiculous-lies-you-believe-about-the-founding-of-america/

This Chart Shows The Bilderberg Group’s Connection To Everything In The World

http://www.pakalertpress.com/2012/06/14/this-chart-shows-the-bilderberg-groups-connection-to-everything-in-the-world/

Independence campaign for Scotland launched

http://edition.cnn.com/2012/05/25/world/europe/uk-scotland-independence/index.html

Reading ‘History as a Literary Art’

http://chronicle.com/blogs/profhacker/reading-history-as-a-literary-art/39761

Inequality in modern-day America is worse than Ancient Rome

http://rt.com/usa/news/inequality-ancient-percent-empire-287/

Why I Decided To Publish Directly Through Amazon by Ellen Finnigan

http://lewrockwell.com/orig9/finnigan7.1.1.html

Your favorite author, brought to you by a wealthy patron

http://www.salon.com/2011/10/05/your_favorite_author_brought_to_you_by_a_wealthy_patron/

Are Jobs on Their Way to Becoming Obsolete? And Is That a Good Thing?

http://www.alternet.org/story/152383/are_jobs_on_their_way_to_becoming_obsolete_and_is_that_a_good_thing

KNIGHT: Snuffing out children’s innocence ACLU agenda aims to taint children

http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2011/sep/9/snuffing-out-childrens-innocence/

Is History Cyclical? Megan Erickson

http://bigthink.com/ideas/38618

Technique for Measuring Methane Gas from Cattle Flatulence

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/03/110301122152.htm

Scientists Identify New Implications for Perennial Bioenergy Crops

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/02/110228151744.htm

The New Metaphysicals: History and the historyless by Leigh Eric Schmidt

http://blogs.ssrc.org/tif/2011/01/14/history-and-the-historyless/

Paul Greenberg - The End of Books

http://townhall.com/columnists/PaulGreenberg/2010/12/09/the_end_of_books

How America will collapse (by 2025): Four scenarios that could spell the end of the United States as we know it -- in the very near future by Alfred W. McCoy

http://www.salon.com/news/us_economy/index.html?story=/news/feature/2010/12/06/america_collapse_2025

Inspiration Is Nonsense - SALMAN RUSHDIE

http://bigthink.com/ideas/25140

Head teacher says schoolchildren do not need books and recommends Wikipedia The head teacher of a school in New York is facing calls to resign after he sent out an error-strewn letter claiming that children did not need books, while he also recommended Wikipedia.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/northamerica/usa/8081280/Head-teacher-says-schoolchildren-do-not-need-books-and-recommends-Wikipedia.html

Why I Got Fired From Teaching American History - Thaddeus Russell

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/thaddeus-russell/fired-teaching-american-history_b_767172.html

What If We Ran Universities Like Wikipedia?

http://news.slashdot.org/firehose.pl?op=view&type=story&sid=10/10/18/229220

The Number One U.S. Export To China: Waste Paper and Scrap Metal

http://www.lewrockwell.com/rep/exporting-waste-to-china.html

Douglas Coupland A radical pessimist's guide to the next 10 years

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/national/a-radical-pessimists-guide-to-the-next-10-years/article1750609/page1/

The writing is on the paywall for academic publishing - Nigel Warburton

http://www.alcs.co.uk/news/first_person.html

A Dictionary of the Near Future By DOUGLAS COUPLAND

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/09/13/opinion/13coupland.html

From the Shadows Emerges a New World Order - Their Order?

http://www.pakalertpress.com/2010/09/08/from-the-shadows-emerges-a-new-world-order-their-order/

America's Ruling Class -- And the Perils of Revolution By Angelo M. Codevilla

http://spectator.org/archives/2010/07/16/americas-ruling-class-and-the/

Ending the Monopoly of Ideas: Compulsory Licensing in Intellectual Property Written by Josh Fulton

http://dailycensored.com/2010/06/28/ending-the-monopoly-of-ideas-compulsory-licensing-in-intellectual-property/

SMARTER THAN YOU THINK What Is I.B.M.’s Watson?

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/06/20/magazine/20Computer-t.html

Why the United States still can't get BP to do what's necessary If Obama asserts no legal authority over BP, he can't cleanup the oil giant's cleanup BY ROBERT REICH

http://www.salon.com/news/opinion/feature/2010/06/13/reich_us_bp/index.html

Make It Into American Petroleum

Pres. Obama needs to forget his conflicts over the mistreatment of his grandfather by the Brits and recognize that as president he must serve and protect the people of the U.S. even though he might be criticized, and bite the bullet and seize BP's assets and arrest its management under terrorism laws and get it over with. So what if Britain fumes, if they don't like it let's go to war, and after we win we can divest them of more assets to pay for that as well as the horrendous longterm damage their terrorist corp. did to us. The alternative of treating them as a legit corp who's our friend and can be trusted to hand us all its assets is dumber than check-into-cash.

In the Singularity Movement, Humans Are So Yesterday

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/06/13/business/13sing.html

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GV3mhuF6W3w

U.S. Says No, but Nuclear Option for Spill Gains Support

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/06/03/us/03nuke.html


My reply:


Yes, a small nuke to the side of the well should push rocks into it and seal it off, and the heat only would make it work better by getting a molten rock flow going. So why not? If there were ever a use for nukes, this is it- a pure gain, ending the horrific flow of oil and environmental devastation, and since the sea floor is already a mile down, the nuke shouldn't harm anybody or anything. Is Obama so bewitched with his Nobel that he will risk ruining the U.S. coastline for some political purity about nasty nukes? Stay tuned, jeesh.

Video: Sir Ken Robinson: Bring on the learning revolution!

http://www.ted.com/talks/sir_ken_robinson_bring_on_the_revolution.html

Wikipedia Is Not Amused By Entry For xkcd-Coined Word

http://news.slashdot.org/firehose.pl?op=view&type=story&sid=10/05/13/183221

Wiki Portal:History

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portal:History

The Coming of the Third Industrial Revolution By Jeremy Rifkin

http://www.theglobalist.com/storyid.aspx?StoryId=8359

Why men don't read books Women editors are not the problem BY LAURA MILLER

http://www.salon.com/books/laura_miller/2010/05/04/men_don_t_read

Personality May Influence Brain Shrinkage in Aging

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/04/100426092809.htm

The problem with electronic books

http://legal.advicescene.com/american-legal-forum/index.php?topic=400.0