Academics push to revive forgotten words – World – NZ Herald News
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in liberalism Tags: economics of language
Caterwaul: A shrill howling or wailing noise.
Concinnity: The skillful and harmonious arrangement or fitting together of the different parts of something.
Flapdoodle: Nonsense.
Knavery: A roguish or mischievous act.
Melange: A mixture of different things.
Obambulate: To walk about.
Opsimath: A person who begins to learn or study only late in life.
Philistine: A person who is hostile or indifferent to culture and the arts, or who has no understanding of them.
Rapscallion: A mischievous person.
April Fools’ Day was better than Christmas for the young rapscallion.
Subtopia: Monotonous urban sprawl of standardised buildings.
via Academics push to revive forgotten words – World – NZ Herald News.
The payoff from foreign direct investment in the USA
14 Jan 2015 Leave a comment
in applied welfare economics, international economics, labour economics, politics - New Zealand, politics - USA Tags: foreign direct investment
Be Afraid. Be A Little Afraid: The Threat of Terrorism from Western Foreign Fighters in Syria and Iraq | Brookings Institution
14 Jan 2015 Leave a comment
in economics of crime, managerial economics, occupational regulation, organisational economics, personnel economics Tags: Jihadists, war against terror
Complex Model of Foreign Fighter Radicalization
via The Threat of Terrorism from Western Foreign Fighters in Syria and Iraq | Brookings Institution.
Senate Democrats Ramping Up The Climate Fraud To Spectacular New Levels
14 Jan 2015 Leave a comment
in economics
Senator Sanders says that scientists are “virtually unanimous” that humans are already causing devastating climate change.
Bernie Sanders Wrecks Republican Plans By Offering Climate Change Amendment To Keystone XL
Republicans need to demand that he produce evidence to back his wildly fraudulent claims up. Not one single thing he said has any basis in fact, or any documentation to back it up.
Sanders goal is to give Obama political cover for a veto. Hopefully the Republican leadership will not let him get away with this fraud. There has never been any survey which has asked scientists anything remotely close to Sanders’ claims.
Only 52% of American Meteorological Society members believe that humans are primarily responsible for global warming, much less believe that it is a catastrophe.
Great satellite photo of the Korean peninsula by night
14 Jan 2015 Leave a comment
in Marxist economics, war and peace Tags: North Korea, South Korea, workers paradise
Korean Peninsula from the International Space Station http://t.co/wMP6xT3yan—
Max Roser (@MaxCRoser) January 06, 2015
There has been tremendous medical progress against the key modern killers
14 Jan 2015 Leave a comment
in health economics Tags: medical progress, The Great Escape
The declining lethality of heart disease, #cancer, & stroke
(USA, last 50 years)nyti.ms/1D7d23O http://t.co/6Gh1ce3a4n—
Max Roser (@MaxCRoser) January 10, 2015
Utopia, you are standing in it! 
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