• David Pogue is pessimistic about Skype’s future http://j.mp/lM6VMY How do iChat and FaceTime work again? And didn’t Google have something? #
• Paper-size (and –thin) computers are becoming reality http://j.mp/ivzDav #
• Thema Immigration und Islam: Mir waren wichtige Details des „Anwerbeabkommens“ von 1961 nicht klar http://j.mp/lbUb01 krass! #
• Heiße Diskussion um einen ZEIT Leserartikel zum Islam http://j.mp/jnabEp Die (meistempfohlenen) Kommentare stimmen mich großteils bedenklich #
• #travelinsight 46: A teacher colleague had Malaria over the week-end. Malaria! Over the week-end! Still worries me a little… #
• #travelinsight 45: Learning an all-new language makes you think about what you need language for. What would your first 200 words cover? #
• #travelinsight 44: Why oh why do women here prefer odd-looking wigs over their beautiful natural hair? #
• Danke, Europäischer Gerichtshof! Klagerecht für Umweltverbände in Deutschland http://j.mp/l6PDXx „Bürgergesellschaft“ wir kommen #
• #travelinsight 43: Two breakfasts, two lunches and dinner is a little much. Of course, Hobbits would disagree. And so, initially, did I … #
• Hah! The longest German word in official usage http://j.mp/m2Ww0N 63 letters! (that’s as exactly as much as this tweet before the brackets!) #
• Do political decisions originate with „the people“ or elites? I discover the field of comparative political economy http://j.mp/jpAxxU #
• s in Germany, is pronounced [z] if it forms the syllable onset (e.g. Sohn [zoːn]), otherwise [s] (e.g. Bus [bʊs]) http://j.mp/mtyHXf Aha! #
• Ich liebe meine Sprache: Guttenbergs Fälschungen „werkprägendes Arbeitsmuster“ http://j.mp/kLaPJD Fazit der Kommission: bewusste Täuschung #
• Next door to me in Uganda, a proposed law threatens gays with death penalty. Protest: http://j.mp/iRqs5w it seems to have worked once before #
• High-tech orthodoxy or: the woman who was never there http://j.mp/k0QDgk it would be very funny if it wasn’t real #Krugman #
• How to lie with numbers: The cost of closing the fiscal gap now or later http://j.mp/m7imL0 #Krugman #Constructivism #
• Surprising and very informed argument against the notion that feminism took away the housewife’s good status of the 50s http://j.mp/iTjSgc #
• Joseph Stiglitz about past and future of US distribution of wealth and its political implications http://j.mp/mr3OsU Scary. #
• An einer tiefen Beschreibung der Personaldebatten in der FDP kann man lernen, wie Parteien im Inneren funktionieren http://j.mp/mCm6QL #

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• Daten-zentrierter Journalismus http://j.mp/jtd7lx sehr spannend und wichtig, aber: Daten mach halt noch keine Geschichte. #Narration #
• Gipfeltreffen mit Zivilgesellschaft schön und gut http://j.mp/kvu1JZ Hatten wir nicht schon mal nen Atomkonsens? #
• If supermarkets were like public schools http://j.mp/jXhKqB an analogy who’s obvious message I don’t share, but still find interesting #
• Comparing teaching and military can be surprisingly insightful. And McKinsey can do good work http://j.mp/lnWIsw #NYTimes #Op-Ed #
• Oh dear, major computer overdose today. But I’m happy my travel blog is up to date, and my brain has gotten it’s fix of science and politics #
• Why we don’t hear much from physicists against nuclear energy & why we should turn to physicians for the critical science http://j.mp/iHIpp9 #
• It seems the Osama thing makes more talk about torture necessary http://j.mp/jVJSMW Glad we can dismiss it practically a well as morally #
• beautiful little metaphor on publication bias in science http://j.mp/msSDGf #
• Osama capture myths debunked, including the question of torture-elicited information http://j.mp/mwqp9C #
• How anti-Obama „birtherism“ is rooted in old segregation sentiments and former slave states http://j.mp/jfBqQl Very thorough, and sad! #
• Market Design — what economists can do when they stop arguing everything will be alright if you leave things alone http://j.mp/ilRxU5 Good! #
• #travelinsight 42: It does seem like many of the brightest minds in Africa choose to work with and for development projects. Good or bad? #
• More amazing science from our guts — there are 3 distinct types of bacteria ecosystems one can have, like blood types http://j.mp/iJSY05 #
• Patient or consumer — health care reform example of how market theory (and language) shapes the world http://j.mp/laH95w #
• #travelinsight 41: Better to have an explanation of Vernier Calipers in your notebook or use your ruler and express the result in cm and m? #
• What stinks about the reports of Quaddafi’s son and grandchildren being killed by NATO, and his ceasefire offer http://j.mp/lCPPib #
• #travelinsight 40: Seeing a petrified chicken in crowded bus reinforces my veganism. After emphasizing with the livelihood aspect in theory. #
• #travelinsight 39: Moving market failure: get ripped off even knowing the right price. Supply and demand can be very local. Ad hoc oligopoly #
• #travelinsight 38: You can fit 10 people and a big backpack in a car. And the police gives you a friendly wave. #
• Interessante, stellenweise lange Rezension eines neuen Buches über Religiosität in den USA. Fremdes, spannendes Amerika! http://j.mp/l6e51X #

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• Barbara Ehrenreich: the psychological cruelty of Positive Thinking & links to the financial meltdown and Iraq http://j.mp/hJCQ7L #RSAnimate #
• Slavoj Zizek makes a powerful case against charity and its integration into contemporary „Cultural Capitalism“ http://j.mp/g4YN6X #RSAnimate #
• #RSAnimate of David Harvey’s marxist take on the financial crisis. http://j.mp/hLlvMT At least as thought-provoking as solution-lacking… #
• Kenyan authorities monitor social media for „hate speech“ while praising the revolutions in Arab countries. Good or bad? #
• #travelinsight 37: East African landscapes give me a strange feeling of — home. Is that still in our genes? #
• #travelinsight 36: Ya mama yabamba! #
• #travelinsight 35: Who builds the buses for Kenya? Amazing technology, it’s a miracle they don’t fall apart on the first day on these roads. #

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• If like me you can’t always follow news, a good summary of „Arab Spring“ near-revolutionary countries‘ situation http://j.mp/fspEvp #
• Optimistic comment about a military solution in Libya http://j.mp/e0432p what are drones http://j.mp/flliYq SZ critical http://j.mp/ia2n4R #
• Protesting as a woman in a Muslim country or: regimes use Islam and Feminism as expedient http://j.mp/gzO5Uf #
• If anybody still had doubts — Informed Comment cites official evidence on the Oil-Iraq War link, with thoughtful comments http://j.mp/hRE9IQ #
• Lese sehr gerne ein SZ-Interview mit unserem zukünftigen Ministerpräseidenten http://j.mp/eoRfd2 Reflektiert, realistisch, hoffnungsvoll #
• NYTimes gives an overview of influential academic bloggers http://j.mp/fun6U3 Seems many big professors found a new hobby Worthwile! #
• Wer ist eine Frau? Problematische Konstruktion von Geschlecht im Profisport http://j.mp/evQcFi SZ #
• Schmidbauer im SZ-Gespräch über sein neues Buch über Geld, Angst und Glück http://j.mp/g9ZcqK und was Altes dazu von mir http://j.mp/hyV2LD #
• #travelinsight 34: Trying to wrap my mind around that love for money concept, in all shapes from buying drinks to paying the rent to cash #
• #travelinsight 33: Addicted to my Feldenkrais exercises since the massage with that amazing french guy Goupi in Auroville http://j.mp/eGBR2S #
• Updated my travel schedule http://goo.gl/maps/ELGh #
• Recognize twitter spam http://j.mp/dPb7U6 and when to block odd followers http://j.mp/fSYFZK #

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• #travelinsight 32: So good to see couples holding hands again, and stuff! Even though I miss the sight of guys in intimate embraces… #
• #travelinsight 31: Sweet Baobab Seeds. Nasty and addicting. #
• What’s left of economics without ideology: „resources are limited, incentives matter“ wow! http://j.mp/g5iQIM Stiglitz on deficit reduction #
• Progressivity of tax systems and inequality — how misleading hard facts can be http://j.mp/id0g3F (read link and Whiteford’s comment) #
• Mein alter LMU-Prof Rosenstiel hat pointierte und traurige Gedanken zu Wirtschafts-Studenten und Unternehmensethik http://j.mp/fQVRJc #
• Nachtaktive Liberale sind am intelligentesten http://j.mp/hyPG8B Kuriose Auswüchse der evolutionsbiologischen Intelligenzforschung. Und nu? #
• #travelinsight 30: Starting to appreciate facebook again. Haha. But it does ease the pain of leaving so many people behind all the time #
• #travelinsight 29: Internet seems to suck everywhere I go outside Germany — California, Glasgow, India, Kenya, getting worse and worse… #
• #travelinsight 28: Hmmm, Kenya makes up for the missed mango season in India. I do miss Indian cuisine though, especially Bombay indulgence. #
• #travelinsight 27: Wow, Nairobi feels very Western after India. So much space. So clean. Nobody looks at me?! #
• #travelinsight 26: How long has my stupid computer left to live? More issues every day. Can’t wait for a nice MacBook Air Oh consumerism! #
• Thoughtful criticism of Anna Hazare’s fast to death and the law for an anti-corruption commission in India it is about http://j.mp/ebRcul #

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• Der kleinste Teufel der Energiehölle http://j.mp/e68B9K Runder Blick auf billige Energie, Externalitäten und ein Plädoyer fürs „smart grid“ #
• #travelinsight 25: So beautiful to have little things from the loved ones back home around. So many I use every day and warm my heart! #

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• #travelinsight 22: Baby bananas are nice, but there’s nothing like (ripe) green bananas. Why do they only sell the boring stuff in the West? #
• #travelinsight 21: Unraveling a life again, after only two months. How fast you accumulate material things, organizational and human ties! #
• #travelinsight 20: It’s getting seriously hot now. Time to leave. #
• Praktische Konsequenzen für den Umgang mit Atomkraft nach Fukushima in der ZEIT http://j.mp/glpG00 Frage: Ist es das wert? #
• After years of German paranoia, mobile phone radiation worries reach US, in the wake of new high-profile study http://j.mp/hz9281 #
• „Unsere Kraftwerke sind nur so lange sicher, wie nichts passiert, was wir nicht erwartet haben.“ Strahlenbiologe SZ http://j.mp/gecB6k #
• Atomare Gefahren versichern statt emotional diskutieren http://j.mp/gPWtKF Wäre das „Ausstieg auf ökonomisch“? #
• Soziologe Ulrich Beck über Japan und „Risikogesellschaft“ http://j.mp/hf0wVE dann Interview mit Atom-Lobbyist unheimlich http://j.mp/fxhxcV #

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• Social Science digest in #NYTimes — brief news from topics as diverse as economics, sports and love. http://j.mp/gmLwoB #

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• Für mich alten Nichttrinker schwieriger und interessanter Stoff: Eine Kulturgeschichte des Rausches in der SZ http://j.mp/g3V5es #
• #travelinsight 19: Everyday awareness training: driving on the left, and an old Kawasaki motorbike with inverted gears. #

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• Highly recommend the documentary on European eco-communities „The New We“ http://j.mp/hNem1g #
• Economist Richard B Freeman explains nicely what unions are good for http://j.mp/flwMLR Improves my opinion of his profession #
• #travelinsight 18: Hero Hondas are real heroes. A louder horn would be nice for India though. And how about a 5th gear? #
• #travelinsight 17: Will never travel without my own mosquito net again. Oh, and I’ll bring my passport next time… #

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