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The Twilight of the Elites

TIME: "This is the danger of living in a society in which the landscape of authority has been leveled: it's not there when you actually need it."

In China, Wal-Mart presses suppliers on labor, environmental standards

washingtonpost.com: "'For those who may still be on the sidelines, I want to be direct,' Wal-Mart chief executive Lee Scott said sternly. 'Meeting social and environmental standards is not optional.'"

Five Ways to Heal American Capitalism

Harvard Business Review: "This will encourage senior executives to break the habit of giving guidance and, by extension, of manipulating numbers to hit their guidance numbers. They can get back to the psychologically rewarding business of actually creating value."

The full-scale collapse: From Murrow to Blitzer

Glenn Greenwald: "Edward R. Murrow led the media attack on the McCarthyism of the 1950s.  Wolf Blitzer plays mindless, amiable, neutral, amplifying host to identical smear campaigns of today.  That collapse says all one needs to know about much of modern establishment political journalism in the United States."

Pigeons Beat Humans at Solving 'Monty Hall' Problem

LiveScience -- just what we need: pigeons that can apply Bayes' rule.

Emanuel and his 'advisers'

David S. Broder: "From too many years of covering politics, I have come to believe as Axiom One that the absolute worst advice politicians ever receive comes from journalists who fancy themselves great campaign strategists."

Chilean quake may have shortened Earth days

Chilean quake may have shortened Earth days: "Earth's figure axis is not the same as its north-south axis; they are offset by about 10 meters (about 33 feet)."

Working memory: Is it the new IQ?

Nature Precedings: "Critically, we find that working memory at the start of formal education is a more powerful predictor of subsequent academic success than IQ."

I'm back. I'm home! All the time, it was... We finally really did it.