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A collection of resources about global startup hubs and innovation clusters, exploring their role in fostering entrepreneurship, collaboration, and economic growth. Key themes include ecosystem development, funding opportunities, technology transfer, and the impact of cultural diversity on innovation.
A look at the pros and cons of Globalization
Rankings and Elite Top Universities - Global
a collection of articles about The USA and Taxes
a collection of articles about (some of the) best universities in the USA
A collection of articles to help Understanding University Endowments- for students Applying to University
Diverse Dialogues: Develop the skills to navigate through the nuances of cross-cultural interactions. Understand the importance of cultural sensitivity and linguistic nuances in fostering effective communication.
Do you need to be located in Silicon Valley? Where else? A collection of resources about starting a startup and the impact of location on entrepreneurial success. This compilation explores the vital considerations for aspiring entrepreneurs, emphasizing how geographic factors can influence access to markets, talent, funding, and networking ...
International Financial Markets - global hubs for international finance
ree Speech Debate - journalism, democracy, society
A collection of articles and videos about Free Speech, Hate Speech, and the Internet
a collection of articles and resources about ISA's - Income Share Agreements
A collection about Scholarships and Grants for University College Education
A collection of articles about How cities are preparing for sea level rise and global warming
Alternatives to Silicon Valley - Startup Hubs and Innovation Clusters in the USA. A collection of resources about startup hubs and innovation clusters across the USA, highlighting alternatives to Silicon Valley and exploring emerging ecosystems fostering entrepreneurship and innovation
A look at the complicated history of India and the USA
Business and Hispanic, Latino Culture in the USA
a collection of articles and resources for teachers and students of English as a Second Language (ESL)
Coal towns and Economic Development
Texas and Hispanic, Mexican Culture
Water Crises, Rivers, Droughts, and Wildfires
A collection of articles about the USA - Sea Level Rise, and Global Warming
A collection of articles and videos looking at Startups in the Midwestern region of the USA
Detroit and Economic Development in the Midwest
A collection of articles and videos about Appalachia, West Virginia, Kentucky, Ohio and the Midwest, USA
a look at the business model of Netflix
Chipmaking in the USA - semiconductors, Intel, others
A collection of articles and videos looking at EU regulations and food and agriculture
H1B visa - Immigration Policy and High Tech (USA)
a collection of articles and resources for entrepreneurs related to taxes

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Chinese green technologies are pouring into Latin America

Climate, and geopolitics, the great green rivalry. Chinese clean technology is blooming and at America. Uncle Sam is worried. That is prompting anx... (2024)


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Energy: A millennial is building America’s first nickel-cobalt refinery

But it’s proving ethically trickier than she expected | United States (2024)


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How to fix the Ivy League

Its supremacy is being undermined by bad leadership | Leaders (2024)


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Technology and the state. Surveillance capitalism

Silicon Valley is piling into the business of snooping. Tech upstarts are selling their wares to America’s police | Business (2023)


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America’s plan to cut drug prices comes with unpleasant side-effects

American medicine. A bitter pricing pill. A lot to cut drug prices is changing how pharma firms make medicines. It is already changing how pharm... (2023)


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Big business: America’s corporate giants are getting harder to topple

Why America’s corporate giants are surprisingly impervious to disruption. Incumbents from Walmart to General Motors are fighting back against disr... (2023)


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The sports business: Which sport is the best business?

American sports leagues (NBA, NFL, NHL) are more competitive, lucrative and monopolistic than European ones like the English Premier League| Busine... (2023)


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The new king of beers is a Mexican-American success story

Move over, Bud Light. Heed the power of the Hispanic market | Business Bud light, Americas, self styled “king of beers“ for 22 years, is dethron... (2023)


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Trade and Geopolitics; enter the investment police. America’s plan to vet investments into China

Citing national security, America’s government considers tighter rules on outbound capital | Business Placing limits on America’s globetrotting ... (2023)


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Banking. The financial system is slipping into state control

Government control the banking sector; What will it look like after the next spell of instability? | Finance & economics (2023)


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Starlink’s performance in Ukraine has ignited a new space race | The Economist

Never mind the moon; look to low-Earth orbit | Leaders (2023)


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America Inc. - The Economist

From semiconductors to electric vehicles, the American government is going into business | United States Joe Biden’s industrial policy is big, b... (2022)


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Midwestern states want to become “hard-tech” hubs | The Economist

Putting their money where their machines are | United States (2022)


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Why America’s clean-energy industry is stuck | The Economist

Blame in part its climate-friendly president | Business (2022)


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Why an agricultural boom does not help rural America | The Economist

Farms are ever more profitable, but employ fewer workers | United States (2022)


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The Competition for High-Skill Immigrants Intensifies - Marginal REVOLUTION

The UK has created a new visa for High Potential Individuals. Under the HPI visa any graduate from a top university as defined by “in the top 50 of... (2022)


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These Four States Account For Half Of The Recent College Enrollment Decline

Four states - California, New York, Ohio and Texas - account for half of the total national decrease in college enrollment since 2019. (2022)


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The hidden costs of cutting Russia off from SWIFT | The Economist

America’s foes would rush to alternatives, hastening its financial decline | Finance & economics (2022)


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Karl Popper on democracy - From the archives: the open society and its enemies revisited

In 1988 The Economist invited the philosopher Karl Popper to write an article on democracy. It appeared in the issue of April 23rd that year and ma... (2021)


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The tax on unrealized capital gains - Marginal REVOLUTION

Maybe I don’t understand how the supposed plan is supposed to work.  There is no tax credit for unrealized capital losses, right?  So you won’t wan... (2021)


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Pharmaceuticals and innovation. Less buck for the bang. Are drug patents worth it?

Politicians are attacking IP protection, but shareholders are Big Pharma’s bigger headache | Business (2021)


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Supply Shortages - The Bottleneck Economy | The Economist

Supply shortages are acute in America | Leaders The coming global economic boom could have a sting in the tail… (2021)


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In praise of America’s founding fish | The Economist

The Potomac river is a more vivid symbol of American history than any of the monuments along it | United States (2021)


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Biden’s taxing problem - How to tax capital without hurting investment - The Economist

President Joe Biden should improve the design of his taxes on Wall Street | Leaders (2021)


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Fintech comes to America at last | The Economist

The digital payments boom | Leaders (2021)


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This Is Why Your Holiday Travel Is Awful - POLITICO

The long, sordid history of New York’s Penn Station shows how progressives have made it too hard for the government to do big things—and why, belie... (2021)



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Technology and geopolitics - The struggle over chips enters a new phase | Leaders | The Economist

The age of their manufacture in China could be beginning. Samsung in South Korea. TSMC in Taiwan... (2021)


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Bloomberg - What Happens When the 1% Go Remote

It doesn’t take very many ultra-wealthy Americans changing their address to wreak havoc on cities’ finances. While the pandemic has helped to a... (2020)


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NextEra, America’s most valuable energy firm | Business

Owner of FPL, Florida Power & Light, and a big player in wind and solar energy... The clean-energy utility has surpassed ExxonMobil in market ca... (2020)


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Why The World Is Rushing Back To The Moon

During the Cold War, competition between the the United States and the former USSR was fierce, as the two countries rallied for the chance to make ... (2024)


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The end of globalization? How Biden's Inflation Reduction Act IRA changed the world | FT Film

The US was for decades the exemplar of free market globalisation. That changed with Donald Trump’s 'America first' agenda. President Joe Biden’s la... (2023)


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H-1B visa holders: How The U.S. Lost Thousands Of High-Skilled Workers To Canada

On July 16, 2023 Canada opened visa applications for a pilot program that would allow up to 10,000 H-1B visa holders in the United States to apply ... (2023)


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Memory chips: How Micron is Building the Biggest U.S. Chip Fab

Micron, Samsung and SK Hynix are responsible for making 90% of the world’s DRAM memory chips, and Micron is the only one based in the U.S. That’s m... (2023)


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Why West Virginia is so Poor

Why West Virginia is so Poor (2023)


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Solar panel canopies: How to fight climate change with parking lots

Why haven’t we covered them in solar panels? (2023)


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Why America's Biggest Cities Are Littered With Vacant Lots | WSJ

From New York to Austin, America’s biggest cities are littered with vacant plots of land because property tax bills can skyrocket once vacant lots ... (2023)


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Why did Russia sell Alaska to America? (Short Animated Documentary)

Why did Russia sell Alaska to America? (Short Animated Documentary) (2023)


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Amtrack - Why Train Tickets Cost So Much In America

Taking a train in the U.S. is often more expensive than flying and more expensive than intercity train systems in other developed countries, which ... (2022)


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The Simple Genius of NYC’s Water Supply System

The Simple Genius of New York City’s Water Supply System (2022)


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America’s opioid crisis - How the Mexican cartels are making profits now - The Economist

Mexican cartels and criminals are the leading producers of illegal synthetic drugs. This shift is fuelling the latest phase in America’s opioid cri... (2022)


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Water: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO)

John Oliver discusses the water shortage in the American west, how it’s already impacting the people who live there, and what God has to say about ... (2022)


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Why Everywhere in the US is Starting to Look the Same

Why Everywhere in the US is Starting to Look the Same (2022)


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Ira Glasser on Free Speech | Real Time with Bill Maher (HBO)

The former ACLU Executive Director and subject of the documentary, "Mighty Ira," joins Bill to disc... (2022)


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What Happens If Yellowstone Blows Up Tomorrow?

What Happens If Yellowstone Blows Up Tomorrow? (2022)


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The dark history of bananas - John Soluri

Explore the history of the notorious United Fruit Company and how its influence over the banana industry impacted Central America. --In December 19... (2021)


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How Ocean Shipping Works (And Why It's Broken)

Sign up for the Nebula/CuriosityStream bundle deal at http://CuriosityStream.com/WendoverWatch an exclusive behind the scenes video showing how we ... (2021)


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Why There are Now So Many Shortages (It's Not COVID)

Why There are Now So Many Shortages (It's Not COVID) A look at the Toyota “just in time” (JIT) supply chain system (2021)


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Why Silicon Valley and Shenzhen Have Exactly The Opposite Problem

Why Silicon Valley and Shenzhen Have Exactly The Opposite Problem "Move fast and break things" doesn't exactly translate into Mandarin… (2021)


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Transmission, and the Energy Grid - Why the US isn't ready for clean energy

Making clean energy isn’t enough: We also have to move it.Subscribe and turn on notifications (🔔) so you don't miss any videos: the n... (2021)


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Liberal Hypocrisy is Fueling American Inequality. Here’s How. | NYT Opinion

It’s easy to blame the other side. And for many Democrats, it’s obvious that Republicans are thwarting progress toward a more equal society.But wha... (2021)


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The Great Resignation: Why Millions Of Workers Are Quitting

Americans are leaving their jobs in droves. In August 4.3 million Americans quit their jobs. While some people have left the workforce entirely, jo... (2021)


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New Rule: America's Pipe Dream | Real Time with Bill Maher (HBO)

Subscribe to the Real Time YouTube: http://itsh.bo/10r5A1BBefore we spread democracy around the world, America has to figure out how to spread wate... (2021)


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Is Recycling Worth It Anymore? The Truth Is Complicated - NPR

America produces more waste per capita than any other country in the world. And recycling, which was once considered the solution to that problem, ... (2021)


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Long-Term Care: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO)

John Oliver explains the industry behind nursing homes and assisted living facilities, and why long-term care needs fixing. Connect with Last Week ... (2021)


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C-SPAN Cities Tour - Raleigh: History of the Research Triangle - North Carolina

Learn about the Research Triangle from Bob Geolas, President and CEO of the Research Triangle Foundation of North Carolina, who explains what the t... (2020)


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Evictions (housing) - Coronavirus IX, Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO)

LastWeekTonight With evictions on the rise due to coronavirus, John Oliver discusses the long struggle with housing in the US, why it’s gotten ... (2020)


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Michigan Dam(s) Fail! Tittabawassee River.

Overview of the Boyce Hydro System and What we know so far. LINKS: Drone Footage (2020)


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Coronavirus IV: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO)

John Oliver discusses how Coronavirus is impacting the US workforce, from mass unemployment to the problems faced by essential workers. Connect wit... (2020)


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Joe Rogan Experience #1368 - Edward Snowden

Edward Snowden is an American whistleblower who copied and leaked highly classified information from the National Security Agency in 2013 when he w... (2019)


Podcast

America's Truck Driver Crisis Is Complicated - 1A | Podcast on Spotify

Listen to this episode from 1A on Spotify. Truck driving in America remains in crisis. There are 80,000 fewer drivers on the road than needed, acco... (2022)


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Social media's threat to democracy

The Economist, 2017: “Twitter, Facebook and Google were supposed to improve politics. Instead, from Russian meddling in America's election to polit... (2017)


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Ghosts of Football Past

In anticipation of Super Bowl LII (Go Eagles), we're revisiting an old episode about the surprising history of how the game came to be. It's the en... (2023)


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The Student Debt Dilemma With Constantine Yannelis - Capitalisn't | Podcast on Spotify

Listen to this episode from Capitalisn't on Spotify. We’re taking a week off here at the end of the summer, but with Biden’s recent student loan an... (2022)


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Nuclear power and America's clean energy future | On Point

President Joe Biden signed a $1 trillion infrastructure bill this week. Tucked into the plan includes the Biden administration's belief in the impo... (2021)


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The Federal Reserve is thinking about a digital dollar - Marketplace

Plus, what shoe sales are telling us about the economic recovery, President Joe Biden is asking federal agencies to gauge the financial risk of cli... (2021)


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Work V. Wealth: Capital Gains Tax, Explained | On Point

The capital gains tax. The Biden administration wants to raise it. But why is capital taxed less than work to begin with? (2021)


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Houston Astros - Sign Stealing - 99% Invisible Roman Mars | Podcast on Spotify

Listen to this episode from 99% Invisible on Spotify. In the early days of baseball, sign-stealing was almost like a game within the g... (2020)


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Millions of Americans face stigma of moving back in with their parents

As the financial crisis deepens, many adults are moving back home. But the trend started before the pandemic. (2020)


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Real Estate in a Pandemic: Homeowners and Buyers (Part 1) - a16z

This episode is the first in a two-part series that examines the pandemic’s impact on real estate. Part 1 focuses on prospective home buyers, selle... (2020)


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Podcast - Section 230 CDA: Content Moderation, Free Speech, the Internet - Andreessen Horowitz

Listen to this episode from 16 Minutes News by a16z on Spotify. In this special "3x" episode of our news show -- where we cover the he... (2020)


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Paul Riley: Launch of U.S. Soccer Girls Development Academy Was Unnecessary

Three-time NWSL champion head coach Paul Riley didn't mince words in a recent interview when discussing the U.S. Soccer Girls Development Academy. (2020)


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Dematerialization and What It Means for the Economy — and Climate Change - Harvard Business Review (podcast)

Andrew McAfee, co-director of the MIT Initiative on the Digital Economy, explains how the U.S. economy is growing and actually using less and less ... (2019)


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On Beeing - 99% Invisible

Driving between Oakland and Los Angeles in February offers glimpses of a spectacular scene — neat, symmetrical rows of trees covered with pink and ... (2019)


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a16z Podcast: The Infrastructure of Total Health – Andreessen Horowitz

Bernard J. Tyson is the chairman and CEO of Kaiser Permanente, a $73 billion non-profit health organization that provides healthcare and coverage w... (2018)


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National Sword - 99% Invisible

Where does your recycling go? In most places in the U.S., you throw it in a bin, and then it gets carted off to be sorted and cleaned at a Material... (2019)


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a16z Podcast: Real Estate — Ownership, Asset, Economy – Andreessen Horowitz

The largest asset class in the United States is owner-occupied real estate, yet options for homeowners accessing this are very binary right now: ei... (2017)


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Should Facebook be regulated?, an episode from The New York Times on Spotify

Mark Zuckerberg, Facebook’s chief executive, returned to Capitol Hill on Wednesday for a second day of hearings on the company’s mishandling of dat... (2018)


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Bear Stearns fell 10 years ago today - NPR Marketplace on Apple Podcasts

On this day in 2008, an 85-year-old investment bank became the very public face of the financial crisis. Only a $29 billion loan guarantee from the... (2018)


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2008 Financial Crisis (10 years later): NPR Marketplace on Apple Podcasts

NPR podcast- 3/19/2018 “former Fed Chair Ben Bernanke, former Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson and Timothy Geithner, former president of the New... (2018)


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a16z Podcast: Adjusting to Trade… and Innovation – Andreessen Horowitz

Beyond the overly simplistic framing of trade as “good” or “bad” — by politicians, by Econ 101 — why is the topic of trade (or rather, economies an... (2017)


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Great American Outpost: Dreamers, Mavericks, and the Making of an Oil Frontier | IndieBound.org

"A surreal, lyrical work of narrative nonfiction that portrays how the largest domestic oil discovery in half a century transformed a forgotten cor... (2018)


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Earning the Rockies: How Geography Shapes America's Role in the World by Robert D. Kaplan

Earning the Rockies book. Read 238 reviews from the world's largest community for readers. An incisive portrait of the American landscape that show... (2020)


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Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis by J.D. Vance

Hillbilly Elegy book. Read 25,407 reviews from the world's largest community for readers. From a former marine and Yale Law School graduate, a powe... (2020)


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The 1619 Project Curriculum

The 1619 Project, inaugurated with a special issue of The New York Times Magazine, challenges us to reframe U.S. history by marking the year when t... (2020)


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Free Speech Rankings - universities USA - College Pulse, Foundation for Individual Rights in Education

College Pulse, Foundation for Individual Rights in Education, and RealClearEducation have released the first ever College Free Speech Rankings, a c... (2021)


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Flood Factor - Find Your Home's Flood Factor

Flood Factor is a free online tool created by the nonprofit First Street Foundation that makes it easy for Americans to find their property’s past ... (2020)


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IHME - COVID-19 Projections (state by state)

Explore hospital bed use, need for intensive care beds, and ventilator use due to COVID-19 based on projected deaths (2020)


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Human-Centered Computing BS Degree at RIT

HCC is about leveraging technology, exploring and adapting how people access and interact with it. Finding ways to integrate technology with our ev... (2019)





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Poverty, and the cost of college

The California Sunday Magazine The College Try Liz Waite and Kersheral Jessup couldn’t afford a higher education, let alone rent. But they worked a... (2017)


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Hidden ivies - list of top liberal arts colleges in the USA - Google Sheets

liberal arts schools - beyond the Ivy League Claremont McKenna college,Claremont,California,private liberal arts college in Claremont, Californi... (2019)


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shareChunksSpreadsheet - google spreadsheet

shareChunksSpreadsheet - google spreadsheet (2019)