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Harder than it sounds

John Denvir (USF): Watching Television Can Change the World: The Wire as Critique. Tommy J. Curry (Texas A&M): Capital Noir: [W]hite Supremacy, Prisons and the Road to Perdition in The Wire. Can we teach computers what “truth” means? It’s harder than it sounds. From io9, George Dvorsky on the 25 coolest catch phrases for scientific concepts; and are popular scientists becoming modern day preachers? From On Think Tanks, Ileana Avalos, interviews Jorge Vargas Cullell, Adjunct Director of the State of the Nation Program. The Prospect Think Tank Pages is a hub for think tanks around the world and for debate about their best new work on political, social and economic policy. You can download Environmental Economics: An Integrated Approach by Philip Graves. Who controls the money? Lisa Elkins Goodman investigates.