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FDL Book Salon Welcomes Richard Thaler - Nudge: Improving Decisions About Health, Wealth, and Happiness

Sun, 05 Apr 2009 14:00:09 -0700
Welcome author, Richard H. Thaler , and host, Mark A. R. Kleiman , author, bloggger, Professor of Public Policy at the UCLA School of Public Affairs - bevw] Nudge , by Richard Thaler (today’s guest) and Cass Sunstein, is an exposition of the set of ideas its authors call “Libertarian Paternalism.” At first blush this might seem as oxymoronic a combination as “dry water,” and the goal of the book to show how the phrase might make sense. Libertarianism holds that it is wrong to i

Jonathan Ross and Russell Brand cannot be made

Sun, 05 Apr 2009 16:15:35 -0700
Jonathan Ross and Russell Brand cannot be made to pay the £150,000 BBC fine by law, regulator Ofcom has said.The media regulator imposed the fine last week over the prank phone calls made on Radio 2 by both comedians. Communities Secretary Hazel Blears said she thought the stars should be made to pay the penalty themselves. But an Ofcom spokesman said the fine was "levied against the BBC and not individuals" and "to do so would require a change in the law". The fine was granted for what Ofcom ca

The Weather Channel Interactive Named Semifinalist In Google's Android Developer Challenge

Tue, 13 May 2008 00:00:01 -0700
Atlanta, GA (PRWEB) May 13, 2008 -- The Weather Channel for Android has been selected as one of the Top 50 applications in Google's Android Developer Challenge. The newly developed application...