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9 November 2011 12:14
- Why are we bothering with a carbon tax if the cost of solar energy is steadily declining?
- 'Most of the world’s poor live in countries that have moved from low- to middle-income country status since 1999...'
- New Mandala recommends this new account of what's happening in Burma today.
- Ross Babbage argues Australia should buy US nuclear submarines, rather than developing a 'Collins Mk2'.
- Who is the modern equivalent to Frederic Bastiat, the French journalist who explained economics to the masses?
- The world's top tweeting nations are the Netherlands (22% of the online population), Brazil (almost 22%), Venezuela (21%) and Indonesia (19%). The US is at 8%, though that's still half of all Twitter users.
- Andrew Carr takes our Asia literacy debate to the pages of The Australian's higher ed supplement. (The piece is called 'Language barrier we don't want to breach'; Googling that phrase should get you around The Oz's subscription barrier).
- Last Thursday we noted a story about a Syrian textile factory which looked suspiciously like a uranium enrichment facility. False alarm, apparently.