| Baby You Can Drive My Car Posted: 31 Mar 2011 07:15 AM PDT Top five vehicle selection by women sorted by ethnic group. 
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| The Changing Nature of Delusions Posted: 31 Mar 2011 07:03 AM PDT From a new study, the changing 20th century nature of delusions in American psychiatric hospital. Fantastic stuff: ...more patients after 1950 believe they are being spied upon is consistent with the development of related technology and the advent of the Cold War. Delusional content tended to reflect the culture at the time, with focus on syphilis in the early 1900s, on Germans during World War II, on Communists during the Cold War, and on technology in recent years. Indeed, delusions now are being reported relating to computers, the internet and computer games. Source: Cannon BJ, Kramer LM. Delusion content across the 20th century in an American psychiatric hospital. The International journal of social psychiatry. 2011. Available at: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21421637 [Accessed March 31, 2011]. 
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| Unearthing America's Past Posted: 31 Mar 2011 06:48 AM PDT Interesting looking new book ("Before the Revolution: America's Ancient Past") on unearthing America's past in its layered historical strata: [A half-millenium before Columbus's arrival history] was already happening in North America, where Ancient Native civilizations (like the one built by the Anasazi) were rising and falling; amidst a changing climate, new ways of life, powered by a revolution in agriculture, were being established in new parts of the continent. In Europe, meanwhile, during what we often call the Middle Ages, things were changing, too. Agriculture allowed for the accumulation of wealth, and European land started being divided up into parcels, ruled by armed lords, in the system we now call feudalism. Richter begins by exploring the roots of these two different ways of life -- one driven by an idea of property, the other more decentralized -- which were, unbeknownst to either side, on a crash-course. Conventional wisdom has it that invading Europeans simply wiped out the Native way of life. In fact, Richter argues, it's better to think of what happened in terms of historical layers, each new layer inheriting the shape of the previous one. In the fifteenth century, conquistadores brought the European Middle Ages to America, fueled by religious zeal; but, almost at the same time, European traders built a different kind of life, learning to coexist with Native civilization and importing a sensibility we might recognize as modern and capitalistic. More here. 
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| Field Notes: Inflation, Trade, DEC, etc. Posted: 31 Mar 2011 06:17 AM PDT - Pagerank matrix of world trade network (Source)
- Would DEC Still Exist if Non-Competes Didn't? (Source)
- Preqin survey finds 50% rise in public pension plans investing in hedge funds (Source)
- Wal-Mart CEO Bill Simon expects "serious" inflation (Source)
- Co-residence patterns in hunter-gatherer societies (Source)
- Locating the U.S. oil production recovery (Source)
- Skunked: Reforming U.S. entitlements (Source)
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