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Wednesday, December 1, 2010

Arts & Letters Daily (01 Dec 2010)

Arts & Letters Daily (01 Dec 2010):

With Amazon, the publishing industry is now beholden to a single, profit-obsessed company. What happens when you sell a book like it's a can of soup?...more


Consciousness used to be the crazy aunt in psychology's attic, up there squeaking the floorboards and troubling our dreams of science... more



By stressing exchange as the key mechanism in the success of our species, Matt Ridley underplays education, law, patents, and science. Bill Gates likes Ridley's message, but... more