Swingers
The New Yorker, by Ian Parker - Bonobos are celebrated as peace-loving, matriarchal, and sexually liberated. Are they?This pop image of the bonobo—equal parts dolphin, Dalai Lama, and Warren Beatty—has flourished largely in the absence of the animal itself, which was recognized as a species less than a century ago. Two hundred or so bonobos are kept in captivity around the world; but, despite being one of just four species of great ape, along with orangutans, gorillas, and chimpanzees, the wild bonobo has received comparatively little scientific scrutiny. It is one of the oddities of the bonobo world—and a source of frustration to some—that Frans de Waal, of Emory University, the high-profile Dutch primatologist and writer, who is the most frequently quoted authority on the species, has never seen a wild bonobo.
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The Global Flat Tax Revolution
Cato, by Daniel J. Mitchell - International bureaucracies are obstacles to tax reform, both because they are ideologically opposed to the flat tax and because they represent the interests of high-tax nations that want tax harmonization rather than tax competition. The Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development, for instance, has a “harmful tax competition” project that seeks to hinder the flow of labor and capital from high-tax nations to low-tax jurisdictions. The OECD even produced a 1998 report stating that tax competition “may hamper the application of progressive tax rates and the achievement of redistributive goals.” In 2000 the Paris-based bureaucracy created a blacklist of low-tax jurisdictions, threatening them with financial protectionism if they did not change their domestic laws to discourage capital from nations with oppressive tax regimes.
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Why Intellectuals Like Genocide
New English Review, by Theodore Dalrymple - In 2002, the Australian free-lance historian and journalist, Keith Windschuttle, published a book that created a controversy that has still not died down. Entitled ‘The Fabrication of Aboriginal History,’ it sets out to destroy the idea that there had been a genocide of Tasmanian aborigines carried out by the early European settlers of the island.
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Zeitgeist - The Movie
zeitgeist.com - Zeitgeist was created as a not for profit expression to inspire people to start looking at the world from a more critical perspective and to understand that very often things are not what the population at large think they are. The information in Zeitgeist was established over a year long period of research and the current Source page on this site lists the sources used/referenced.
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What’s So Friggin’ Funny?
Discover Magazine, by Steven Johnson - Robert Provine wants me to see his Tickle Me Elmo doll. Wants me to hold it, as a matter of fact. A professor of psychology and neuroscience at the University of Maryland, he has been engaged for more than a decade in a wide-ranging intellectual pursuit that has taken him from the play of young chimpanzees to the history of American sitcoms—all in search of a scientific understanding of that most unscientific of human customs: laughter.
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The Old World Order
New York Sun, by Adam Kirsch - If you could choose to be a fly on the wall at any event in history, you could do worse than to pick the ball that inaugurated the Congress of Vienna, on October 2, 1814. Adam Zamoyski, whose fascinating new book “Rites of Peace” ( HarperCollins, 634 pages, $29.95) is a history of the spectacle as well as the substance of the Congress, uses the words of some of the less famous attendees to set the scene. What struck them first was the light. Sixteen thousand candles and thirty-two chandeliers lit up two ballrooms in the imperial palace, where the glass windowpanes had been replaced with mirrors, redoubling the splendor.
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Novi M3 bolji je i od bavarskog piva i kobasica
Jutarnji list - U BMW-u ističu kako novi M3 ima čak 80 posto novih dijelova u odnosu na coupe verziju serije 3. Ukratko, novi su motor, mjenjač, ovjes i šasija, a isti su ostali samo vrata, pokazivači smjera i još neki manje važni detalji. Izvana, M3 je agresivan, ali opet ne i prenapasan.
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Transformers
Independent - The final hour is basically a demolition derby between moveable scrapyards, with the streets of LA providing a rally stadium. You know that moment when a car suddenly cruises by with a stereo booming out of its windows and blasting a hole in your cerebral cortex? That’s this movie, except that the car takes much, much longer to pass out of earshot.
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