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Robert Thurman contends that true happiness occurs when we’re least aware of it.
With banks no longer able to extend the kind of credit that ultimately got them in trouble in the first place, people are suddenly looking for a lending alternative that […]
Usile de interior pentru apartamente sunt usi pentru bai, usi pentru bucatarii, usi pentru sufragerii, usi pentru dormitoare, usi pentru birourii, usi pentru spatii comerciale, usi pentru depozite. Usile pot […]
Big Think had the chance to sit down this week with Anil Dash, Chief Evangelist of Six Apart, the developers of the influential and pervasive blogging platforms Movable Type and […]
Government payouts, insurance, and great money chase are ruining health care – is there another way?
the dependence on technology's interference in my life.
The USA feels all people should have healthcare; young, old, immigrants, rich, poor.  So make everyone pay incrementally.  Support NATIONAL healthcare with NATIONAL SALES TAX on everything purchased; food, web […]
By funding Capitated Primary Healthcare for low-income individuals and families we can create a platform for quality and accountability that will transform and lower healthcare costs for everybody. Simply by moving the bottom we will cause a shift that will percolate through the whole system and bring change.
I frequently ask myself “How much can I take before I just blow?…” Do our government officials really think they can drop the ‘Health Care Solution’ on us like one […]
We need to thank nationally the two universities mentioned above who are offering free on line courses.
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Jean, member of the legendary group The Fugees and Hip-Hop producer, talks about his childhood in Haiti, post-race politics, and working again with Lauryn Hill.
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Jean’s music is as eclectic as his influences.
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Jean left Haiti at the age of nine only to end up the country’s roving ambassador.
It’s a question every writer asks themselves, either in the midst of sorting through overdue bills, during the dead hours of a suffocating block, or upon receipt of another rude […]
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Duke University Professor Cathy N. Davidson says scholars in the humanities need to unlearn old ways of teaching and publishing.
Following the successful end-runs of popular and critically-acclaimed HBO programs the Sopranos, Sex and the City, and The Wire, speculation ran rampant in the television industry about how the pay-TV […]