March 2006
Gender pay gap: what's it worth?
by mikepower
Girls may well opt for arts degrees over engineering, but that's not because nobody has told them that engineers earn more than academics - it's because the 'male' professions have fallen out of favour even among men.
February 2006
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December 2005
October 2005
September 2005
Guardian Unlimited Politics | Comment | David Walker: Why flat means unfair
by digitalmonkey
"The extra income earned by a rich person is simply worth less than the extra pound in a poor household. Which is why a flat tax was, and is now, evidently unfair".
The Globe and Mail: The flagging empire
by bnation
The fall of the American Empire. The cold war, oil, China, The Middle East, Katrina . . .
ZNet: The Man Who Betrayed the Poor
by bnation
Even as the G8 promises fall apart, Bob Geldof stays silent
August 2005
June 2005
April 2005
March 2005
Dick Taverne: A little pesticide does you good but 'organic' farming harms the world
by mikepower
Our health is threatened not by chemicals and GM crops but by the eco-fundamentalists and their crusade against intensive agriculture
January 2005
Ignore the vanity of the Bushites, America's might is draining away: Matthew Parris
by mikepower
For many decades America’s share of the world’s economic output has been in decline. America’s modesty in 1945 understated its muscle, Bushite vanity overstates it today.
Greed: The Nuts Game
by mikepower
Three people sit around a kitchen bowl. You, the fourth person, with a timer, start off placing ten small items in the bowl - quarters, dollar bills, or nuts. Tell the three players the goal is for each of them to get as many items as they can. Tell them
December 2004
