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- Reading List of the Day: Sustainability (April 2010)
- Reading List: Natural Gas Drilling Edition
- Review of Michael Van Valkenburgh Associates Allegheny Riverfront Park
- Readings for 16 March 2010
- Fatima Cigarette Ad from Dragnet
- Reading of the Day 14 March 2010
- Photo of the Day: Honey Bee Visiting a Red Clover Flower
- Readings of the Day 12 March 2010
- Economic Inequality Matters
- Photo of the Day: Hillary Clinton During the 2008 St. Patrick’s Day Parade
Social Science Archive
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Reading List of the Day: Sustainability (April 2010)
Posted on April 17, 2010 | No CommentsA first sustainability conference for the Freeport Apollo Group (FLAG) near Pittsburgh: Notable speakers on historic preservation, outdoor recreational tourism, stormwater management, urban forestry, green building practices, and locally grown... -
Fatima Cigarette Ad from Dragnet
Posted on March 15, 2010 | No CommentsThis audo advertisement (click the Fatima picture for the audio) for Fatima cigarettes originally aired on April 15, 1954 during a Dragnet episode called “The Big Pug.” Fatima, a Liggett... -
Economic Inequality Matters
Posted on March 11, 2010 | 1 CommentAccording to the 1870 federal census, one percent of the people owned 72 percent of all the wealth in the great industrial city of Pittsburgh. What’s more, just half of... -
Review of ECONned by Yves Smith
Posted on March 5, 2010 | No CommentsOutsourced to James Kwak of the excellent Baseline Scenario blog who writes that Yves Smith in ECONned : describes how trading in CDOs built out of mortgage-backed securities drove mortgage... -
Exxon Mobil Posts Record Profit (Again)
Posted on October 30, 2008 | No CommentsOf course. We’re in the worst economic crisis since the Great Depression, but Exxon Mobil still pumps out the dough: Exxon Mobil Corp. set a quarterly profit record for a...
