February 2012
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New Pretty Lights track available for free... →
It’s called We Must Go On. Grab it for free from the PL website above.
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Freakonomics blog Q&A w/ Mark Cuban
Readers were recently invited to submit questions to Cuban for a Q&A session with the Freakonomics blog. He had some really insightful comments on economic policy. I particularly enjoyed his response to this question about college tuition prices.
Q. The annual increase in the cost of college tuition seems to be much greater than inflation every year. Even during the recent financial...
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January 2012
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Folklorist Alan Lomax's Global Jukebox Goes... →
(Source: The New York Times)
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December 2011
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Revealed: huge increase in executive pay for... →
2010 was a great year to lose your job as a CEO. Four of the 10 highest paid CEOs were retired or departing executives. Ronald Williams, former head of Aetna, a health insurer, exercised 2.4m options for a profit of $50.4m. Aetna’s stock price declined by 70% from when Williams assumed the role of CEO in February 2006 until his retirement. At pharmacy chain CVS, Thomas Ryan made a...
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Vintage Skiing Photos →
(source: The New York Times)