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| #lanier [http://www.nytimes.com/2010/09/19/magazine/19fob-essay-t.html?sq=education%20data%20facebook&st=nyt&scp=5&pagewanted=all Does the Digital Classroom Enfeeble the Mind?] [[Does the Digital Classroom Enfeeble the Mind]] By JARON LANIER
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| Published: September 16, 2010, New York Times
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| #thecrash [http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/business/risk/index.html?referrer=emaillink The Crash: What Went Wrong]
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| //How did the most dynamic and sophisticated financial markets in the world come to the brink of collapse? The Washington Post examines how Wall Street innovation outpaced Washington regulation. Series includes: [http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/12/28/AR2008122801916.html The Beautiful Machine],
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| #beautifulmachine Robert O'Harrow Jr. and Brady Dennis [http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/12/28/AR2008122801916.html I) The Beautiful Machine, III) Downgrades and Downfall] Washington Post Staff Writers Monday, December 29,30,31 2008
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| //Greed on Wall Street and blindness in Washington certainly helped cause the financial system's crash. But a deeper explanation begins 20 years ago with a bold experiment to master the variable that has defeated so many visionaries: Risk.<br /><br />How could a single unit of AIG cause the giant company's near-ruin and become a fulcrum of the global financial crisis? By straying from its own rules for managing risk and then failing to anticipate the consequences.
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| #nocera JOE NOCERA [http://www.nytimes.com/2009/01/04/magazine/04risk-t.html?partner=permalink&exprod=permalink Risk Mismanagent] NYTimes Magazine Published: January 2, 2009
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| //Were the measures used to evaluate Wall Street trades flawed? Or was the mistake ignoring them?
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| #bolsus [http://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/02/world/americ/02bolivia.html?partner=permalink&exprod=permalink Bolivia Suspends U.S.-Backed Antidrug Efforts] By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Published: November 1, 2008 in NY Times
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| //The United Nations estimates that Bolivia’s coca crop increased by 5 percent in 2007 — far below the 27 percent jump recorded in Colombia
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| #taleb Nassim Nicholas Taleb. The black swan. New York: Random House, 2007. isbn:1400063515.
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| #bernstein Peter L. Bernstein. Against the gods. New York: John Wiley & Sons, 1996. isbn:0471295639
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