Bookmarks 08/07/2012

• The Internet map

  tags: internet map graphic information

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Bookmarks 07/30/2012

• The Olympics and Social Cleansing

  tags: olympics social Neoliberalism society urban development davidharvey poverty slums

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Bookmarks 07/26/2012

• Of Flying Cars and the Declining Rate of Profit | David Graeber | The Baffler

  great piece on how neoliberal corporate capitalism is stifling innovation 

  tags: capitalism corporate technology social society culture marx science industry future ScienceFiction Neoliberalism neoliberal

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Bookmarks 07/25/2012

• Egypt’s legal battle to regulate Monsanto’s GMOs | Egypt Independent

  tags: monsanto GMO environment health egypt geneticallymodified agriculture policy

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Bookmarks 07/24/2012

• Open Source Ecology

  tags: open-source technology social ecology design wiki

• Marcin Jakubowski: Open-sourced blueprints for civilization | Video on TED.com

  tags: TED agriculture ecology design technology open-source

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Bookmarks 07/15/2012

• Cairobserver — The tale of a door handle

  tags: cairo architecture corruption development nile urban design

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Bookmarks 07/13/2012

• Sinai bridge project puts Red Sea ecosystem at risk, say experts | Egypt Independent

  tags: egypt sinai redsea environment conservation development saudi-arabia ecology

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Bookmarks 07/11/2012

• Patents, innovation, and the America Invents Act: How a new law encouraging more efficient patent processing could stifle American innovation. – Slate Magazine

  tags: intellectual-property economy unitedstates law policy

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Bookmarks 07/03/2012

• Why Are American Kids So Spoiled? : The New Yorker

  tags: psychiatry psychology human society sociology anthropology unitedstates child development

• Dissent Magazine – Summer 2012 Issue – Soldiers Without Gener…

  tags: egypt politics military muslim-brotherhood government corruption ndp security police history

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Bookmarks 07/02/2012

• Healthy Food: 50 Of The Best In The World

  tags: health howto lifehack human food

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Bookmarks 07/01/2012

• How The Taste Of Tomatoes Went Bad (And Kept On Going) : The Salt : NPR

  tags: food health biology genetics geneticallymodified GMO

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Bookmarks 06/26/2012

• Business Today: Reaching for the Sun

  tags: egypt energy water electricity solar alternative renewable agriculture entrepreneurship

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Bookmarks 06/23/2012

• Magazine – Why Women Still Can’t Have It All – The Atlantic

  • he best hope for improving the lot of all women, and for closing what Wolfers and Stevenson call a “new gender gap”—measured by well-being rather than wages—is to close the leadership gap: to elect a woman president and 50 women senators; to ensure that women are equally represented in the ranks of corporate executives and judicial leaders. Only when women wield power in sufficient numbers will we create a society that genuinely works for all women. That will be a society that works for everyone.

• Foreign Military Studies Office Publications – The Role of the Egyptian Military in Domestic Society

  tags: egypt economy labor history politics industry

• Egypt’s Generals and Transnational Capital | Middle East Research and Information Project

  tags: egypt military economy Neoliberalism industry SCAF

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Bookmarks 06/20/2012

• Cleaning up Cairo through compost | Egypt Independent

  tags: egypt recycling compost waste waste-management behavior cairo environment

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Bookmarks 06/17/2012

• Presidential Elections – egyptialise.me

  tags: elections egypt politics president

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