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2018-02-10

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  美国人发生性关系的频率显著下降
  刚看到一篇文章，近些年来美国人发生性关系的频率有很大的下降。同90年代相比，2010s下降了14%。成年人中，1年中没有性关系的比例由18%升到22%。尤其是在年轻人 ...

2018-01-10

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  Dracula 发表了新日志 2018-1-10 07:20 (评论)

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  为什么海豚那么聪明
  Why dolphins are deep thinkers https://www.theguardian.com/science/2003/jul/03/research.science （蓝字是我加的，觉得那段特别有意思 ...

2018-01-08

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  Dracula 发表了新日志 2018-1-8 23:12 (评论)

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  Market cap of joke cryptocurrency Dogecoin surges above $2bn
  https://www.ft.com/content/b2012d2a-0023-3927-afdf-6f8eaef9cac0 Much wow. Dogecoin, the cryptocurrency based on an internet meme of a ...

2017-10-04

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  Dracula 发表了新日志 2017-10-4 09:18 (评论)

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  什么样的人的婚姻最幸福
  Rich Men With Extreme Politics Have the Happiest Marriages https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-10-02/rich-men-with-extreme-politics-hav ...

2017-09-30

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  Dracula 发表了新日志 2017-9-30 06:12 (评论)

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  性机器人展览会上遭虐待
  Men at tech fair molest £3,000 sex robot so much it’s left broken and ‘heavily soiled’ http://metro.co.uk/2017/09/27/men-at-tech-fair-molest-3 ...

2017-09-08

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  Dracula 发表了新日志 2017-9-8 00:02 (评论)

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  [ZT]要想理解英国，阅读间谍小说
  To understand Britain, read its spy novels The nature of the establishment, the agonies of decline, the complicated tug of patriotism: spy nov ...

2017-08-13

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  Dracula 发表了新日志 2017-8-13 19:35 (评论)

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  Trump政府的第二个100天简评
  1. Trump政府的第二个100天，关于他在大选中串通俄罗斯干预美国大选一跃成为了关乎他政府生死存亡的核心问题。关于这一发展，我也没想到，尽管我一直觉得 ...

2017-06-13

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  Dracula 发表了新日志 2017-6-13 19:46 (评论)

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  97年前的今天，美国邮政局做出规定，禁止邮寄儿童
  下面这段来自Smithsonian的网站 Very Special Deliveries On February 19, 1914, May Pierstorff, just short of her 6th birthda ...

2017-06-07

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  Dracula 发表了新日志 2017-6-7 11:19 (评论)

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  尼安德特人并不笨
  It's about time we gave our Neanderthal ancestors a break Over the past few years, our perception of Neanderthals has been shifting fro ...

2017-05-12

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  Dracula 发表了新日志 2017-5-12 12:37 (评论)

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  Gallup关于美国人对性态度的民意调查
  Gallup今天公布了一个民意调查的结果，是关于美国人对一系列道德问题的看法，最主要的和性有关。结果是美国人在各个社会道德问题上的态度，维持过去几十年的趋势 ...

2017-05-11

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  Dracula 发表了新日志 2017-5-11 00:16 (评论)

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  卡斯帕罗夫谈国际象棋和AI
  刚看到一篇对卡斯帕罗夫的采访。里面有一部分是关于国际象棋和AI。我读了以后觉得很有意思，摘抄一下。 COWEN : Now, given this, does this mean even ...

2017-04-29

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  Dracula 发表了新日志 2017-4-29 03:20 (评论)

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  人工智能创作电影剧本创作小说
  去年AlphaGo战胜李世石的时候，我觉得人工智能能写通俗小说的这一天还比较遥远，现在看来已经近在眼前了。现在我觉得未来5年之内应该就能训练出能写学术论文的人 ...

2017-03-21

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  Dracula 发表了新日志 2017-3-21 21:29 (评论)

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  画家小布什
  George W. Bush’s portraits of Sgts. Daniel Casara, left, and Leslie Zimmerman in “Portraits of Courage: A Commander in Chief’s Tribute to Am ...

2017-02-24

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  Dracula 发表了新日志 2017-2-24 02:12 (评论)

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  [ZT]Norma McCorvey, the “Jane Roe” of Roe v Wade
  Obituary: Norma McCorvey, the “Jane Roe” of Roe v Wade http://www.economist.com/news/obituary/21717339-jane-roe-roe-v-wade-was-69-obituary-no ...

2017-01-01

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  Dracula 发表了新日志 2017-1-1 22:00 (评论)

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  [ZT]Tyrus Wong, ‘Bambi’ Artist Thwarted by Racial Bias, Dies at 106
  Tyrus Wong, ‘Bambi’ Artist Thwarted by Racial Bias, Dies at 106 http://www.nytimes.com/2016/12/30/movies/tyrus-wong-dies-bambi-disney.html?_ ...

2016-10-02

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  Dracula 发表了新日志 2016-10-2 23:05 (评论)

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  [ZT]Why all the love for the Chicago Cubs’ woes?
  棒球季后赛很快就要开打了。Chicago Cubs是美国职业体育里乃至美国文化里futility的象征。上一次赢得世界大赛总冠军是1908年，上一次打进决赛是1945年。但今年 ...

2016-07-04

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  Dracula 发表了新日志 2016-7-4 21:49 (评论)

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  [ZT] How to be a competitive eater
  How to be a competitive eater: a strong stomach for hot dogs – and stamina Nathan’s famous hot dog eating contest attracts an international l ...

2016-03-05

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  Dracula 发表了新日志 2016-3-5 01:33 (评论)

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  [ZT]Here’s What Happened When Some Dude Ate Like The Rock For A Month
  Here’s What Happened When Some Dude Ate Like The Rock For A Month By WALT HICKEY http://fivethirtyeight.com/features/the-rock-dwayne-john ...

2016-02-24

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  Dracula 发表了新日志 2016-2-24 01:54 (评论)

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  Donald Trump 语录
  刚看到一篇文章，收录了Trump历年的一些语录。下面摘抄几条我觉得最有意思的。 （原文在这里 http://www.usmagazine.com/celebrity-news/news/do ...

2016-02-20

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  Dracula 发表了新日志 2016-2-20 05:54 (评论)

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  Harper Lee去世
  刚看到Harper Lee去世的消息。觉得有点伤感。To Kill a Mocking Bird，我最早看的是电影，那时我刚出国不久，英语还不算很好，有些地方不是很听得懂，不觉得有多 ...

2016-02-16

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  Dracula 发表了新日志 2016-2-16 02:30 (评论)

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  Lesbians earn more than heterosexual women
  http://www.economist.com/blogs/economist-explains/2016/02/economist-explains-8 EVERYONE knows that labour markets are not fair. Whether it ...

2016-02-12

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  Dracula 发表了新日志 2016-2-12 00:43 (评论)

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  Trump的家史
  Kallstadt’s king How the German heritage he has hidden shaped Donald Trump http://www.economist.com/news/united-states/21692909-how-ger ...

2015-12-18

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  Dracula 发表了新日志 2015-12-18 01:04 (评论)

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  [ZT]What the Führer means for Germans today
  What the Führer means for Germans today Seventy years after Adolf Hitler’s death, how Germans see him is changing http://www.economist.com/ ...

2015-09-12

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  Dracula 发表了新日志 2015-9-12 03:15 (评论)

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  超级玛丽30岁了
  Super Mario turns 30 http://www.economist.com/blogs/prospero/2015/09/video-games IF BEETHOVEN's Fifth begins, as has been said, wi ...

2015-07-17

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  Dracula 发表了新日志 2015-7-17 02:26 (评论)

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  [ZT]Finding Humanity in Gone With the Wind
  Finding Humanity in Gone With the Wind The classic novel shows that individual lives cannot be reduced to competing sets of political conviction ...

2015-06-16

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  Dracula 发表了新日志 2015-6-16 03:07 (评论)

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  [ZT]The Complexity of Being Richard Nixon
  The Complexity of Being Richard Nixon Often remembered as a brooding, vengeful, and almost cartoonish figure, his life was far more complicate ...

2015-06-15

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  Dracula 发表了新日志 2015-6-15 13:21 (评论)

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  罗斯福夫妇的八卦
  最近在看一本富兰克林罗斯福的传记。作者是Jean Edward Smith。书很不错。在此之前我读过不少关于罗斯福和新政的书，因此书里大多数的内容我都挺熟悉。但是整本 ...

2015-06-12

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  Dracula 发表了新日志 2015-6-12 04:06 (评论)

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  罗斯福在白宫的饮食
  在我以前的想象中，美国总统在白宫的饮食尽管不能顿顿都是山珍海味，象中国古代皇帝的满汉全席那么奢华，但是他的厨师也应该都是超一流的水平，做出的饭菜会是 ...

2015-04-16

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  Dracula 发表了新日志 2015-4-16 06:16 (评论)

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  新加坡的数学考题
  这道题是几天前新加坡电视主持人Kenneth Kong贴到facebook上的，开始说是新加坡5年级的数学考试题，后来经有人查证是高中数学奥林匹克的试题。题目里有 ...

2015-02-17

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  Dracula 发表了新日志 2015-2-17 01:11 (评论)

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  最新美国总统排名（更新）
  前天发了一个最新的美国总统排名的帖子，今天是华盛顿生日纪念日，那个排名正式公布，下面是其它几个比较重要总统的排名。 11. Ronald Reagan 12. Lyndon Jo ...

2015-02-15

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  Dracula 发表了新日志 2015-2-15 00:08 (评论)

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  最新的美国总统排名
  最新的美国总统排名 最近两名美国政治学家Justin Vaughn和Brandon Rottinghaus在研究美国总统的学者里进行了一次关于美国总统排名的问卷调查。下面是部分的 ...

2014-12-16

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  Dracula 发表了新日志 2014-12-16 23:48 (评论)

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  15岁中学生作业数量的国际排名
  Hours of Homework Assigned Weekly to 15-Year-Olds http://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2014/12/where-teens-hav ...

2014-11-05

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  Dracula 发表了新日志 2014-11-5 04:16 (评论)

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  为什么甘地喜欢扔核弹
  Why Gandhi Is Such An Arsehole In Civilisation LUKE PLUNKETT 3 NOVEMBER 2014 1:30 PM http://www.kotaku.com.au/2014/11/why-gandhi-is-such-an-as ...

2014-10-23

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  Dracula 发表了新日志 2014-10-23 00:46 (评论)

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  美国对周小平方舟子之争的报道
  China's president gives blogger 15 minutes of fame -- and scrutiny October 22, 2014, 8:09AM http://www.latimes.com/world/asia/la-fg-china-blog ...

2014-10-18

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  Dracula 发表了新日志 2014-10-18 01:17 (评论)

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  [ZT]For a Better Brain, Learn Another Language
  For a Better Brain, Learn Another Language The cognitive benefits of multilingualism CODY C. DELISTRATYOCT 17 2014, 12:45 PM ET http://www ...

2014-10-14

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  Dracula 发表了新日志 2014-10-14 00:15 (评论)

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  [ZT]What It’s Like to Carry Your Nobel Prize through Airport Security
  What It’s Like to Carry Your Nobel Prize through Airport Security http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/observations/2014/10/10/nobel-prize-airpo ...

2014-09-24

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  Dracula 发表了新日志 2014-9-24 00:08 (评论)

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  [ZT]Humanity's Most Famous Mixtape Is Now 11 Billion Miles From Earth
  Humanity's Most Famous Mixtape Is Now 11 Billion Miles From Earth The Golden Record made it to interstellar space in four decades and could las ...

2014-09-23

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  Dracula 发表了新日志 2014-9-23 23:12 (评论)

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  老鼠炒外汇
  刚刚看到一篇文章，谈到有人进行实验，训练老鼠炒外汇和商品期货，而且业绩比好多有名的人操作的基金还要好。这个想法是如此匪夷所思，到现在我还不能确定这真是 ...

2014-09-10

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  Dracula 发表了新日志 2014-9-10 17:43 (评论)

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  [ZT]The Accidental Discovery of LSD
  The Accidental Discovery of LSD How chemical research on grain fungus inadvertently gave rise to one of the world's most powerful hallucinogeni ...

2014-08-20

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  Dracula 发表了新日志 2014-8-20 01:18 (评论)

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  [ZT]One Golf Course That's Great for Stock Tips
  One Golf Course That's Great for Stock Tips By Matt Levine http://www.bloombergview.com/articles/2014-08-18/one-golf-course-that-s-great-for-st ...

2014-06-27

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  Dracula 发表了新日志 2014-6-27 01:35 (评论)

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  ZT: Latest Supreme Court Decision On Abortion and Free Speech
  The Last Person You See Before Getting an Abortion The Supreme Court struck down a Massachusetts law creating a 35-foot buffer zone around aborti ...

2014-04-19

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  Dracula 发表了新日志 2014-4-19 00:42 (评论)

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  China's air pollution reporting is misleading
  原文挺长，我就不转贴了。链接在这里， http://www.chinadialogue.net/article/show/single/en/6856-China-s-air-pollution-reporting-is-misleading 文章的 ...

2014-04-05

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  Dracula 发表了新日志 2014-4-5 00:46 (评论)

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  Mozilla，麦卡锡主义和好莱坞黑名单
  Mozilla的CEO，Brendan Eich昨天辞职。Eich是Mozilla的创建人之一，一个多星期以前才刚被任命为CEO，网上就传出消息他在2008年加利福尼亚同性恋婚姻公决Proposit ...

2014-03-20

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  Dracula 发表了新日志 2014-3-20 00:00 (评论)

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  美国宪法第四修正案
  美国宪法的第四修正案的内容是 The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches an ...

2014-02-12

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  Dracula 发表了新日志 2014-2-12 00:54 (评论)

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  [ZT]How Much Does It Cost to Be Ambassador to Hungary?
  How Much Does It Cost to Be Ambassador to Hungary? By Jeffrey Goldberg Feb 11, 2014 http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2014-02-11 ...

2014-01-03

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  Dracula 发表了新日志 2014-1-3 09:24 (评论)

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  [ZT] Lovely Obituary on the Great Train Robber
  Ronald Arthur (Ronnie) Biggs, Great Train Robber, died on December 18th, aged 84 Jan 4th 2014 | From the print edition THE year 1963 was somet ...

2013-11-16

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  Dracula 发表了新日志 2013-11-16 02:43 (评论)

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  [ZT]16 American cities foreign governments warn their citizens about
  16 American cities foreign governments warn their citizens about By Reid Wilson November 14 at 4:34 pm http://www.washingtonpost.com ...

2013-10-31

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  Dracula 发表了新日志 2013-10-31 02:46 (评论)

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  [ZT]Man bites dog, repeatedly
  Crime in Florida Man bites dog, repeatedly Oct 30th 2013, 15:18 by The Economist http://www.economist.com/blogs/democracyinamerica/2013/1 ...

2013-10-15

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  Dracula 发表了新日志 2013-10-15 03:46 (评论)

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  美国政府关门的unintended consequences
  现在美国联邦政府仍然是关门，报纸上在讨论共和民主两党谁能够从政府关门中获益。我突然想到了上次90年代政府关门事前大家都没有预料到的后果，也就是Lewinsky丑 ...

2013-09-29

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  Dracula 发表了新日志 2013-9-29 02:45 (评论)

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  [ZT]NSA employee spied on nine women without detection
  NSA employee spied on nine women without detection, internal file shows Twelve cases of unauthorised surveillance documented in letter from NSA's in ...

2013-08-22

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  Dracula 发表了新日志 2013-8-22 22:34 (评论)

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  Interesting Article on NYU Tuition
  The Expensive Romance of NYU Tuition rose $18,000 during outgoing president John Sexton's tenure. But who's really to blame for the school's hi ...

2013-08-10

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  Dracula 发表了新日志 2013-8-10 14:48 (评论)

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  [ZT]Why China's 'Dominance' of Manufacturing Is Misleading
  Why China's 'Dominance' of Manufacturing Is Misleading Gaudy statistics aside, the country has struggled to do what it needs to do -- move up the va ...
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  Dracula 发表了新日志 2013-8-10 05:58 (评论)

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  [ZT]Why Investors in China Love Detroit's Bankruptcy
  Why Investors in China Love Detroit's Bankruptcy The country's real-estate speculators are buying 30 cheap properties at a time, sight unseen. ...

2013-08-02

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  Dracula 发表了新日志 2013-8-2 01:29 (评论)

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  Huey Long两则小时候打仗的小故事
  （我日志的前一篇对 Huey Long 有简单的介绍，如果大家对他不了解的可以先看一下那篇。 http://www.aswetalk.org/bbs/blog-247-28695.html 这个 ...

2013-07-19

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  Dracula 发表了新日志 2013-7-19 06:24 (评论)

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  Huey Long的一则小故事
  Huey Long 是美国 20 世纪二三十年代非常重要的一位政治人物。他的政治主张属于 populist ，比如均分财富，免费教育，政府养老金计划等等，但是另一方面 Long ...

2013-06-21

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  Dracula 发表了新日志 2013-6-21 20:40 (评论)

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  Interesting Interview on Hiring in Google
  Just read an interesting interview ofLaszlo Bock, senior vice president of people operations at Google. http://www.nytimes.com/2013/06/20/business ...

2013-06-18

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  Dracula 发表了新日志 2013-6-18 20:15 (评论)

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  美女间谍Anna Chapman的近况
  2010年，美国爆发了一起间谍案，发现有俄国在美国有一个10人的间谍组织，不久他们就同美国在俄罗斯被抓的间谍相交换，被送回了莫斯科。 这10人中，最受媒体关 ...

2013-05-07

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  Dracula 发表了新日志 2013-5-7 16:42 (评论)

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  [ZT]How China Is Making Me Into a Worse Person
  How China Is Making Me Into a Worse Person You think you can shove past me in the line at the airport or at the bank? Think again, buster. JAMES FAL ...

2013-04-21

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  Dracula 发表了新日志 2013-4-21 02:45 (评论)

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  An interesting review of books on Occupy Wall Street
  刚刚在 Financial Times 的 Book Review 部分 读了一篇很有意思的关于 Occupy Wall Street 几本 书的评论。由于 Financial Times 的网站需要注册， 这 ...

2013-04-15

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  Dracula 发表了新日志 2013-4-15 15:38 (评论)

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  An interesting article on Bitcoin
  我最早听说Bitcoin还是看电视剧The Good Wife。当时觉得这个想法过于异想天开，并没有当真。没想到Bitcoin市场成为了最近两个星期最重要金融新闻之一。过去几个 ...

2013-03-20

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  Dracula 发表了新日志 2013-3-20 19:47 (评论)

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  富兰克林吃鱼的故事
  富兰克林年轻的时候有一段时间信奉素食主义，不吃动物食品，尤其视吃鱼为谋杀。鱼儿本身从来没招惹过我，我怎么能够忍心把它们咽下肚呢？这个推理他觉得很有道 ...

2013-03-11

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  Dracula 发表了新日志 2013-3-11 19:41 (评论)

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  一张杜鲁门和Lauren Bacall的照片
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2013-03-10

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2013-02-02

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