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where's the money? what money? need help understanding the financial crisis? try Planet Money (webcast or podcast)

what to do after college? check out futures (formerly propopo), a place to discuss and share research for
progressive postgraduate possibilities . internships .... graduate programs... jobs... listed here.

what is going on in the US? online book by an insider (particularly ch 7-10)

NEW self-study course on technology and 3rd world development

take courses at MIT for free ! M.I.T. has put its entire undergraduate and graduate curriculum on line and you can self-study any course! press release and OpenCourseWare homepage.

get it!: mindmapping freeware! feel organized instead of overwhelmed with a low-friction planning and thinking tool. keep track of your evolving conceptualization of something, or plan, with all the tangents, urls, links to the relevant files on your computer... it's also a qualitative analysis tool, you can code, thematize, trace connections between ideas... find patterns and gaps. best notetaking method for keeping track of unfinished thoughts (and barely begun ones). takes about 4 minutes to learn how to use. another good tool for notetaking on pdfs: skim (freeware!)

writing! scrivener is a great tool to help you organize and be creative as you put together your ideas.

calling all alumni of the political economy of food course!!! this class has been taught every year since 1996! since that time, organic has become big business, immigrant meatpackers have gone on the big screen, the new york times' food section spends most of its time writing about farmers markets, chefs everywhere are talking about their farmers, lard is back in fashion, and i have achieved the dream from the living room of 2030 anacapa of having a restaurant in my house! the alternative food movement is one of the bright and hopeful spots in a pretty gloomy world today. let's share what we know and love about food and about this movement! get together on the new blog to keep up with ideas and connections in this amazing movement!

ligher fare: the true story of The Lord of the Rings...

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current & upcoming events

NYU students are currently occupying the campus demanding budget disclosure, endowment disclosure, and student representation on the Board of Trustees.

the G20 is the global body tasked with addressing the global financial crisis. they'll be meeting in London on April 2. people will be converging on the meeting to insist that jobs, justice, and climate be protected, rather than banks and wars.

important recent events

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