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- Swazi Teens win 'Science in action' award (Scientific American Blog Network) Young people develop hydroponics systems for their own communities--brilliant on so many levels.
- Oscillatory Thoughts: The deception ratchet (Bradley Voytek) On Jonah Lehrer's slippery slope
- The Olympics as Ritual : The New Yorker One thing the piece does not mention is the extent to which the Olympics have become a kind of potlatch; they go over budget but the hosts can never prune them back, and of course they are displays of wealth and power and status... Read Ruth Benedict's classic account (starts on p.125). There is also a potlatch blog which has been mentioning the Olympics from quite another perspective.
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