New show! Lots of stuff — probably my most dense show yet! Enjoy,
Top 3 Links of the Week
- Marissa Alexander faces 25 years in prison
- The Stoner Arms Dealers: How Two American Kids Became Big-Time Weapons Traders
- ‘Stock-Picking Robot’ a Fraud, SEC Says
Current Events
- Kenneth Chamberlain Sr: Officer shouted racial slur before 2nd cop killed black man
- Kony 2012: Ugandans Criticize Popular Video for Backing U.S. Military Intervention in Central Africa
- Gene Sharp – How to Start a Revolution Trailer
- U.S. troops posed with body parts of Afghan bombers
- For cosmetic surgery, chins are the new breasts: ‘Chinplants’ on the rise
Economics
- Latin America v. Obama: U.S. Policy on Cuba, Drug War, Economy Under Fire at Colombian Summit
- Increasingly in Europe, Suicides ‘by Economic Crisis’
- Republican Whipping-Boy Illinois Beats Wisconsin on Jobs
- How to Pay No Taxes: 10 Strategies Used by the Rich
- Why Are McDonald’s, Coca-Cola, and Intuit Fleeing ALEC?
- High Frequency Trading (HFT): Wall Street’s Latest Scam
- Algorithmic Trading May Spur Volatility, Mispricing, Turner Says
- Optiver, High-Frequency Trading Firm, To Pay $14 Million Over Use Of ‘The Hammer’ To Influence Oil Prices
- SEC Chairman: Markets need to be fair
Education
- Afghan schoolgirls poisoned in anti-education attack
- 6-year-old Georgia girl throws tantrum, gets handcuffed by police
- In Blur of A.D.H.D., Sleep Troubles May Be a Culprit
- PBS Frontline: The Medicated Child
- RSA Animate: Sir Ken Robinson
Killer Robots, et cetera
- DARPA Robotics Challenge Seeks Emergency Response Robots
- Robot Guards Patrolling Prisons in South Korea
- The Pulitzer Prizes | Citation
- Nomophobia
- Sarah Palin Sculpture
Hip-Hop
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