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• Colbert Maurice Sendak tribute http://t.co/bNmWvueG „Spooky PAC“ http://t.co/BOg0Z7Ub „New Jim Crow“ book http://t.co/9Gwnpd4I (drugs, too) #
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• My LOL of the day: sneakernet http://t.co/dA4kRcg8 #urbandictionary #
• „a younger generation is being born in which minorities are the majority“ http://t.co/MhuA0OIO US white births below 50%. Exciting! #
• How to revive citizenship and bring people back into politics http://t.co/PogUalKD What’s the right mix of professional & amateur politics? #

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• The world would be so much less exciting without double agents http://t.co/QDCj1p3Y infiltrating Al Qaeda #
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• US rates of premature birth closer to developing nations than other Western countries http://t.co/9kkYLkZg #
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• Lebensführungs-Klauseln in der Lehrerlaubnis für Islam-Unterricht in Niedersachsen http://t.co/8viTgQVx progressiver als katholische Kirche #

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• „hipster racism“ (racism „enlightened“ people do) http://t.co/SZhYHNWn „we prove we’re not racist by acting as casually racist as possible?“ #
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• „Rebound Effekt“: Höhere Energieeffizienz führt zu mehr Verbrauch http://t.co/tnBprCuC Emissionsreduktion braucht also Wachstumsverzicht? #

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• NDR: Goldene Schürze und kleinen Chor für Kristina Schröders Buch und „Betreuungsgeld“ http://t.co/VCQtWowa #

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I enjoy reading economist Greg Mankiw because he often makes conservative political views understandable for me — even if rarely agreeable. He misses the mark completely in a recent NYTimes opinion on competition between governments. I am especially astounded how the counter-arguments are right there in his own article, but he fails to notice them. Let me start with his main statement:

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• Graph comparing drug harms to user and others from Lancet, 2010 http://t.co/PwSSyW8b Alcohol „leads“ clearly. http://t.co/UGlL8jc8 #

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• Graph comparing drug harms to user and others from Lancet, 2010 http://t.co/PwSSyW8b Alcohol „leads“ clearly. http://t.co/UGlL8jc8 #

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• Perpetuated inequality in advanced, rich societies: Hunger Games‘ „Panem“, „extractive economy“ & developing countries http://t.co/qr8QLkdl #
• #MathNerdFun what does the function y = x^x look like? I highly recommend thinking before clicking http://t.co/ONwDdr0n #

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• My new office PC has nice built-in speakers! Now I’m dreaming with the elephants at work… http://t.co/HSVJ1NRM gracias Patri! #
• Charles Murray (author of Bell Curve and a new book on White America coming apart) on Colbert Report http://t.co/KIrev5e3 somehow touching #
• Wow I think I need to start watching the community series http://t.co/LsAD8CQQ #
• Privacy vs security’s „nothing to hide“ refuted http://t.co/Z0csUvFy Kafkaesque instead of Orwellian view: info processing vs. gathering #

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