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"OpenCourseWare" Online Education. (Wikipedia) Open Source Education
     ... Online Universities: Why They Still Don't Measure Up, Cormac Foster November 9th, 2012

• Online universities like the University of Phoenix, Kaplan University, AIU, and Ashford are fully accredited, and thanks to heavy marketing pushes, they're becoming household names
• The most common, most quantifiable criticisms lobbed at online universities concern lackluster graduation rates, test scores and post-graduation employment statistics.  
• [E]ven Harvard was already offering blended learning degrees,

     OpenCourseWare(OCW) is a free and open digital publication of high quality educational materials for colleges and universities. 

      3 Free Online Universities To Help You Get By Without A Degree (MakeUseOf.com):
No Excuse List, University of Reddit, University Of The People,

• Computer Science E-1 Understanding Computers and the Internet (Harvard)
• CourseRa a social entrepreneurship company that partners with the top universities in the world to offer courses online for anyone to take, for free.
• Khan Academy:  is an organization on a mission. We're a not-for-profit with the goal of changing education for the better by providing a free world-class education for anyone anywhere.
• "MIT OpenCourseWare is developing a set of courses called Scholar, which are designed for self-learners. We recently published 6.00 (or Introduction to Computer Science and Programming in normal speak). There are lecture videos, recitation videos, handouts, slides, code files, homework assignments (with sample solutions), and even an explanation on how to set up Python on your computer.  
• No Excuse Lists: The best place on the web to learn anything, free.  (links)
• The Physics Textbook: Motion mountain.
• Texbook Revolution: the web’s source for free educational materials.
• University of Reddit is the product of free intellectualism and is a haven for the sharing of knowledge. Teachers and students are free to explore any subject that interests them
• University of the People (UoPeople.Org) is the first tuition-free online university and is backed by United Nations Global Alliance for Information and Communication Technology and Development (GAID). UoPeople is non-profit organization and aims to provide higher eduction to people in all countries regardless of their financial means and geographical location.
  
   

List of the best of 2005 lists

• BitTorrent is an easy-to-use implementation capable of swarming downloads across unreliable networks.
• Post blog/RSS Remix Use washingtonpost.com RSS feeds to experiment with different applications using washingtonpost.com
• Watts Up Power meter
  
• Wolfram tunes

09 Sept sites

The Weatherman Is Not a Moron  By NATE SILVER NYT, September 7, 2012

The World Future Society

• Wright's Law: A Better Predictor of Technological Progress than Moore's Law 
• Too Many Choices for the Future? Consumers Want Fewer "Flavors"

The Heart of the US Election 

CBO on 'fiscal cliff': newest estimate is gloomiest yet (Christian Science Monitor) (CBO Report) Sept, 2012

• The CBO, Congress's budget watchdog, warns that the US economy will 'probably' slide back into recession, if the tax hikes and spending cuts mandated for year's end take effect.

• Baseline -- Allowing fiscal cliff-like fiscal policy to continue for the next decade would lower US deficits to just 0.9 percent of GDP in 2022 with the nation's overall debt falling... to 58 percent in 2022. 
•  Alternate -- [I]f current tax laws are extended and spending cuts are eliminated, a deficit averaging 5 percent of GDP over the next decade with America owing 90 percent of its GDP in debt come 2022.

New Report on Getting the Best Care

• Two charts explain why.

At the National Conventions, the Words They Used (Dynamic)

Orszag: IPAB Will Promote Higher-Value Health Care
Independent Payment Advisory Board Will Help Reduce Health Costs, Repealing IPAB Would be Unwise 

Obama and Romney Tackle 14 Top Science Questions
Are you more (or less) liberal than President Obama? Take our quiz!

Greed and Debt: The True Story of Mitt Romney and Bain Capital By Matt Taibbi,  How the GOP presidential candidate and his private equity firm staged an epic wealth grab, destroyed jobs – and stuck others with the bill

• The Federal Bailout That Saved Mitt Romney: Government documents prove the candidate's mythology is just that

A Look Behind the U.S. Decline in Global Competitiveness

• The global debt clock: Our interactive overview of government debt across the planet

Republicans Are Wrong on Call for Gold Standard

• Long-term inflation charts reach back to 1872
• Long term  (Real) Gold Prices 1334-1994
• Short term Gold Prices 1960-2012 (From: Wikipedia: Gold as an investment)

Wealth doesn’t trickle down – it just floods offshore
9 bad decisions people make because of the sunk cost fallacy

Customizable Shortcuts -- Allows to customize Firefox shortcu

Bill Clinton’s Speech: Read the Full Text Here (Barack's 2012 nomination)

•  How Bill Clinton does it (Politico)
• Fact checking Bill Clinton’s speech and other Democrats at the convention in Charlotte (Washington post)

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Tech: 7 Important Features Your Wireless Router Has And You Should Be Using
Astronomy Photographer Of The Year Competition: Selected Images From The Royal Observatory Greenwich's Competition
We decided to test alkaline, lithium and zinc-chloride cells to find the best AA batteries you can buy for your money on the highstreet and online.
 

08, August sites

•  A History Of US Defense Spending Since FDR; And Where Obama And Romney Differ
• US Federal Budget Visualized - Your Tax Dollars at Work
• World governments have borrowed massive amounts of money to live beyond their means. Here are the world's largest economies, and how much they borrowed
• The Veil of Opulence (vs. “veil of ignorance.”) By BENJAMIN HALE
• Partisan Polarization Surges in Bush, Obama Year: Trends in American Values: 1987-2012
• Find out where you fit on the partisan political spectrum:  12 questions that were part of a national survey conducted by the Pew Research Center
• Who Counts as Middle Class? Americans don’t have a great sense of where they fall in the income distribution, or even what the income distribution actually looks like. (Economix, NYT)

•  The Lost Decade of the Middle Class Fewer, Poorer, Gloomier {Note: the middle tier is defined as those living in households with an annual incom that is 67% to 200% of the national median}  (Pew Research Center)

• Income distribution by percentile 2011 (The Tax Policy Center is a joint venture of the Urban Institute and Brookings Institution. The Center is made up of nationally recognized experts in tax, budget, and social policy who have served at the highest levels of government.)

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• Open Source Democracy, OSD // A Movement to Develop // A Web Site, A Cloud Computing Service // For Government Change Actions and for American Voters 
  

• How To Enable 2-Factor Verification On Gmail (And Avoid Getting Hacked)

• Admitting to Bias: Survey finds social psychologists admit anti conservative bias
• Kleinbard: Tax Fairness and Fairness in Tax Data Reporting // Posted by Dan Crawford (Rdan)
• Misconceptions and Realities About Who Pays Taxes (Center on Budget and Policy Priorities)
  
• The Challenge of Stabilizing Federal Debt Myron Scholes Global Markets Forum (1 hr Video)
• Something Doesn't Add Up // Too much medicine relies on fatally flawed research.
  
• Khan Academy
• NYT Open Courses
  
• Optimize Your Wi-Fi Network with Mac’s Hidden Diagnostic Tool
• WorkFlowy as a website that makes lists (Slate discussion)
• A Progressive Prescription For Cutting Health Care Costs (pdf)

07, July sites

July 2012 Sites

Sept. 30 -- GOP tries to avert shutdown showdown, continuing resolution needed
Dec. 31 --  Fiscal cliff: major tax cuts expire and $1.2 trillion in spending cuts to go into effect.
----------- Geithner has said he estimates that U.S. borrowing could hit the debt ceiling by the end of 2012. 

SOME American states receive more in federal spending than they pay in federal taxes... (Economist)

• The Consolidated Federal Funds report is no more. It was abolished to save cash.
• as far as underlying economic inequalities are concerned, the EZ is no worse than the US.

Government Spending and the Economy (11% grew the GDP) By BRUCE BARTLETT
Bubbles and Bailouts: Why Some Economists Failed (FT, Financial Times)
What Everyone Should Know About The DISCLOSE Act Of 2012

 http://Advisorperspectives.com/Dshort

S&P changes 1871 - 2010
CPI change 1871- 2010 (Linear with changes time events)

These Top 10 iPhone Calendar Apps

7 Free Education Websites You Don't Want to Miss

• 450 Free Audio Books: Download Great Books for Free

How Income Inequality Threatens American Meritocracy:  Chris Hayes {Video}

Soluto Is an Awesome Tool to Speed Up Your System Boot, Fix System Slowdowns 

Google: william poole "understanding the fed"

• January/February 2007 
• John Taylor Rules  Vice Chairman Donald L. Kohn, October 12, 2007
• The Financial Crisis and the Policy Responses: An Empirical Analysis of What Went Wrong
  John B. Taylor, 2007

Health Care case   

Online ACA symposium: A theory of the tax power that justifies – and may have informed – the Chief Justice’s analysis
Video: SCOTUS ACA Health Care Decision Panel: U.C. Berkeley: July 2, 2012 10 AM (Transcript)
Supreme Court Decision: What It Means and What's Ahead for Health Reform conference call

Kaiser Health News – Health care webcast {Video 1 hr}
ObamaCare Explained So Everyone Can Understand It (Political Irony)
Is Obamacare The Biggest Tax Increase In History?,  [Chart],  [Tax Increases 1940 - 2012 {pdf}]

Propose a "Staple a Green Card" bill for Military and Graduate non-citizens.  

 http://wh.gov/iddf

06, June sites

  Federal Tax Burdens and Expenditures by State
 Falsehood That Public Sector Pensions Are Bankrupting Governments
 19 Ways to Fall Asleep Fast
The Best Time to Buy Anything in 2012

6/20/2012

Food Stamps and Multiplier

Romney Is Wrong on What Drives a Recovery (GPD change/Givernment spending)

How to Determine If A Controversial Statement Is Scientifically True

Our nation’s institutions have crumbled,  ... Hayes pins the blame on an unlikely suspect: meritocracy
When You’re Gonna Die  In: Science

How Makers of Foreign Policy Use Statistical Forecasts: They Don’t, Really

America Revealed (PBS and Amazon)

6/14/2012

 Debt and Deficit: A Public Opinion Dilemma  Pew Research Center

The US economy has shown consistent, resilient growth for nearly a century and a half.

A Perspective on Long-Term Market Performance

Debt, Taxes and Politics: by Dshort 

     The increases in Debt/GDP occurred during WW II, Reagen, Bush I, and  Bush II, and the Decreases during the presidents after WW II, Clinton,  and sightly under the second Obama term as projected by the OMB.

6/11/2012

500 Free Movies Online: Great Classics, Indies, Noir, Westerns, etc.

Robert Reich on Beyond Outrage: Stopping the Cycle of Political Cynicism
Books on America’s Divergent Economic Paths By ECONOMIX EDITORS
Why The Supreme Court Needs To Make Sure That Selling A Used iPad Isn't A Copyright Violation

• Speaking to the Haves, in a Plea to Consider All the Have-Nots By FELIX SALMON

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