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Wednesday Night #1535
August 3, 2011, 3 Comments

It’s pretty scary out there. If you look at the historical data, every single time that growth has dipped below 2% ...

Wednesday Night #1507
January 19, 2011, 1 Comment

John Jonas, having had a very successful cataract operation, is back with Holly to offer his usual clear-eyed analysis o ...

Human development in the Arab world
January 18, 2011, Comments Off on Human development in the Arab world

Arab Human Development Reports (download) Tunisian Revolution Shakes, Inspires Middle East (Truthdig) The Tunisian upris ...

Canada in 2010
December 30, 2010, Comments Off on Canada in 2010

See also: Canada 2020 Globe & Mail Year in Review —The year that was in Canadian politics Policy Options (IRPP ...

Education: Obama administration
December 27, 2010, 1 Comment

US public schools are going broke, yet some spend like a kid in a candy store The $578 million price tag for the Robert ...

Wednesday Night #1502
December 15, 2010, Comments Off on Wednesday Night #1502

It has been a busy time and proposed topics are not yet settled on – so this will not be the usual Prologue inciti ...

Education: demographics and trends 2009-2010
December 12, 2010, Comments Off on Education: demographics and trends 2009-2010

China’s Army of Graduates Struggles for Jobs (NYT) … an unprecedented wave of young people all around China who ...

Wednesday Night #1501
December 8, 2010, Comments Off on Wednesday Night #1501

                            The moving finger writes;  and, having writ,           ...

World's best countries 2010
August 16, 2010, Comments Off on World's best countries 2010

How We Ranked the World In NEWSWEEK’s first-ever Best Countries special issue, we set out to answer a question that is ...

Wednesday Night #1466
April 7, 2010, Comments Off on Wednesday Night #1466

Given  that this  evening’s special guest was Nigel Penney, much of the discussion centered on science and educa ...

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