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• The Complacent Class: The Self-Defeating Quest for the American Dream: Cowen, Tyler: 9781250108692: Amazon.com: Books — Since Alexis de Tocqueville, restlessness has been accepted as a signature American trait. Our willingness to move, take risks, and adapt to change have produced a dynamic economy and a tradition of innovation from Ben Franklin to Steve Jobs. The problem, according to legendary blogger, economist and best selling author Tyler Cowen, is that Americans today have broken from this tradition―we’re working harder than ever to avoid change. We're moving residences less, marrying people more like ourselves and choosing our music and our mates based on algorithms that wall us off from anything that might be too new or too different. Match.com matches us in love. Spotify and Pandora match us in music. Facebook matches us to just about everything else.

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• Charlottesville, Virginia - Wikipedia — Charlottesville, colloquially known as C'ville, is an independent city in the Commonwealth of Virginia.
• Monticello - Wikipedia — Monticello was the primary plantation of Thomas Jefferson, the third president of the United States, who began designing Monticello after inheriting land from his father at age 26. Located just outside Charlottesville, Virginia, in the Piedmont region, the plantation was originally 5,000 acres (20 km2), with Jefferson using the labor of enslaved African people for extensive cultivation of tobacco and mixed crops, later shifting from tobacco cultivation to wheat in response to changing markets. Due to its architectural and historic significance, the property has been designated a National Historic Landmark. In 1987, Monticello and the nearby University of Virginia, also designed by Jefferson, were together designated a UNESCO World Heritage Site. The current nickel, a United States coin, features a depiction of Monticello on its reverse side.
• Downtown Mall - Wikipedia — The Downtown Mall in Charlottesville, Virginia is one of the longest pedestrian malls in the United States. Located on Main Street, it runs from 6th St. N.E. to Old Preston Ave., where it extends to Water St., for total length of eight blocks. It is laid with brick and concrete, and home to an array of restaurants, shops, offices and art galleries.
• Pavilion information | Ting Pavilion — Located on the east end of the historic downtown mall, Ting Pavilion is the city's premier outdoor venue for live performances.
• Charlottesville Hotels | Omni Charlottesville Hotel — A seven-story atrium and a cool garden setting set the stage for relaxing or dining, while the hotel’s décor hints at the rich history of Virginia. Add to this modern amenities and wonderful creature comforts, and Omni Charlottesville Hotel is the perfect home away from home.
• Горан Весић on Twitter — Да би пијаце могле да издрже конкуренцију супермаркета, оне не могу бити само место где се купује воће и поврће То су данас места где се може попити кафа, купити сувенир итд., а да притом остану оно што су одувек биле - места окупљања свих грађана Палилуска пијаца некад и сад!
• Palilulska pijaca - Beogradski izlet — Kada poželite da i upoznate grad iz prve ruke i čujete šta građana misle o različitim temama, ali i da osetite pravi duh grada umesto da odete na neko izletište, preporučujemo da posetite popularne beogradske pijace. Kao i u svakom gradu sveta, pijaca je mesto gde se susreću članovi porodičnih gazdinstava iz prigradskih opština ili gradova Srbije, preprodavci i kupci iz svih staleža. Ali umesto tradicionalnih pijaca, odnosno trgova pijaca, koje su obično na otvorenom, kakva je i palilulska pijaca bila pre rekonsturkcije, danas na mestu stare stoji jedan savremen objekat koji više liči na modernu galeriju ili šoping centar nego na pijacu. Nekima liči na svemirski brod, drugima na Titanik, a nekima pak na parče torte, ali svejedno nikoga izgled ne ostavlja ravnodušnim.
• Priključenija 36 — Beton
• The Power Broker - Wikipedia — The Power Broker: Robert Moses and the Fall of New York is a 1974 biography of Robert Moses by Robert Caro. The book focuses on the creation and use of power in local and state politics, as witnessed through Moses' use of unelected positions to design and implement dozens of highways and bridges, sometimes at great cost to the communities he nominally served. It has been repeatedly named one of the best biographies of the 20th century, and has been highly influential on city planners and politicians throughout the United States. The book won a Pulitzer Prize in 1974.

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• Drummer: About Drummer — Drummer is a multi-tab outliner that runs as a web app and as a Mac desktop app.
• ∞ regress — Half-baked notes and links c/o Miloš Miljković
• Outliner - Wikipedia — An outliner (or outline processor) is a specialized type of text editor (word processor) used to create and edit outlines, which are text files which have a tree structure, for organization.
• Outlining Software For Pros - OmniOutliner - The Omni Group — OmniOutliner is a powerful tool for organizing (and reorganizing) information, so you can see the full picture and structure your information effortlessly.
• Roam Research – A note taking tool for networked thought. — As easy to use as a document. As powerful as a graph database. Roam helps you organize your research for the long haul.
• Tinderbox: The Tool For Notes — Tinderbox helps you visualize, analyze, and share your ideas.
• List of concept- and mind-mapping software - Wikipedia — Concept mapping and mind mapping software is used to create diagrams of relationships between concepts, ideas, or other pieces of information.
• Cartesian Therapeutics Strengthens Leadership Team With Hire of Miloš Miljković, M.D., as Chief Medical Officer — Cartesian Therapeutics, a fully integrated, clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company pioneering RNA cell therapy in and beyond oncology, today announced the hire of Miloš Miljković, M.D., as Vice President and Chief Medical Officer.
• In Memoriam: Thomas A. Waldmann, M.D. (1930-2021) | Center for Cancer Research — The CCR community is profoundly saddened by the recent passing of Thomas A. Waldmann, M.D., Chief Emeritus of the Lymphoid Malignancies Branch and NIH Distinguished Investigator.
• Leo Szilard - Wikipedia — Leo Szilard (/ˈsɪlɑːrd/; Hungarian: Szilárd Leó, pronounced [ˈsilaːrd ˈlɛoː]; born Leó Spitz; February 11, 1898 – May 30, 1964) was a Hungarian-American physicist and inventor. He conceived the nuclear chain reaction in 1933, patented the idea of a nuclear fission reactor in 1934, and in late 1939 wrote the letter for Albert Einstein's signature that resulted in the Manhattan Project that built the atomic bomb.
• The Making of the Atomic Bomb: Richard Rhodes: 9780671657192: Amazon.com: Books — The definitive history of nuclear weapons and the Manhattan Project. From the turn-of-the-century discovery of nuclear energy to the dropping of the first bombs on Japan, Richard Rhodes’s Pulitzer Prize–winning book details the science, the people, and the sociopolitical realities that led to the development of the atomic bomb.
• BBC World Service - The Bomb — My grandad worked on the bomb that dropped on Hiroshima. Could another man - Leo Szilard - have stopped it?
• The Hidden Life of Otto Frank by Carol Ann Lee | PopMatters — Julianne Duke, a former neighbor of the Franks’ in Amsterdam whose family had emigrated to the United States, remembers that her parents asked the Franks to join them: “Mrs. Frank wrote that she wanted to emigrate, but Mr. Frank saw no need to leave Holland. He trusted in man’s basic goodness, rather than focusing on the darker, irrational side of human nature.”
• Give Me Liberty or Give Me Death - YouTube — Patrick Henry's historic speech dramatized during the Golden Age of Hollywood. "Give me liberty or give me death..." rang out on March 23, 1775.
• The Next Experiments in Elitism — Now, while a notion of elite is stable, there is what Vilfredo Pareto called circulation of elites. He traced how two kinds of elites, which he called lions and foxes based on earlier terminology from Machiavelli, tend to simply take turns being the elites. Foxes rule by the power of the pen, lions through the power of the sword.
• Twilight Struggle - Wikipedia — Twilight Struggle: The Cold War, 1945–1989 is a board game for two players, published by GMT Games in 2005. Players are the United States and Soviet Union contesting each other's influence on the world map by using cards that correspond to historical events
• Živojin Mišić - Wikipedia — Field Marshal Živojin Mišić GCLH, KCB, GCMG (Serbian: Живојин Мишић; 19 July 1855 in Struganik – 20 January 1921 in Belgrade) was a Field Marshal who participated in all of Serbia's wars from 1876 to 1918. He directly commanded the First Serbian army in the Battle of Kolubara and in breach of the Thessaloniki Front was the Chief of the Supreme Command.
• Nassim Taleb, Absorbing Barriers and House Money — Taleb: … absorbing barrier is a point that you reach beyond which you can’t continue. You stop. So, for example, if you die, that’s an absorbing barrier. So, most people don’t realize, as Warren Buffett keeps saying, he says in order to make money, you must first survive. It’s not like an option. It’s a condition. So, once you hit that point, you are done. You are finished. And that applies in the financial world of course to what we call ruin, financial ruin.
• Missed Warnings: The Fatal Flaws Which Doomed Challenger – — On 7 March 1986, six weeks after the loss of Challenger, divers from the U.S.S. Preserver found the remains of the ill-fated shuttle’s crew cabin. It “was disintegrated, with the heaviest fragmentation and crash damage on the left side,” read the Rogers Commission’s final report into the cause of the disaster.

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• Peter Thiel - Wikipedia — Peter Andreas Thiel (/tiːl/; born 11 October 1967) is a German-American billionaire entrepreneur and venture capitalist. A co-founder of PayPal, Palantir Technologies, and Founders Fund, he was the first outside investor in Facebook.
• Zero to One - Wikipedia — Zero to One: Notes on Startups, or How to Build the Future is a 2014 book by the American entrepreneur and investor Peter Thiel co-written with Blake Masters. It is a condensed and updated version of a highly popular set of online notes taken by Masters for the CS183 class on startups, as taught by Thiel at Stanford University in Spring 2012.
• Penzije i nagrade - by Slaviša Tasić - Tržišno rešenje — Nacionalne penzije uvela je vlada DSS-a i DS-a, nastavio SNS, niko drugi ko se bori za glasove ih ne pominje i ja mogu samo da zaključim da ideja ima veliku podršku u javnom mnjenju. A užasna je na nekoliko načina.
• We Can’t Go Back to a Golden Age of Capitalism — Q: One of the main ideas in your book has to do with how, if we narrow our focus on the super rich, we observe that the composition of capital and labor in that class has changed a great deal in the last thirty years. Can you explain that idea? A: It goes back to the concept of “homoplutia” that I mentioned earlier, where we have people at the top of the income distribution who are both rich in the sense of capital and labor income. This is a new development.
• U Trst po farmerke - CdM — Početkom 1960-ih počinje era šoping-putovanja u Trst i ona će potrajati sve do kraja 1980-ih. Pogranični grad, ekonomski slabo razvijen, pun ksenofobije i nacionalizma odjednom se pretvorio u mravinjak, prvu adresu zapada za stanovnike komunističke Jugoslavije.

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• Caffeine content for coffee, tea, soda and more - Mayo Clinic — Find out just how much of this stimulant is in coffee, tea, soda and energy drinks.
• Amazon.com: Nutricost Caffeine Pills 100mg Per Serving, 250 Capsules: Health & Personal Care — Looking for a supplement to power through your workouts or blast through more sets at the gym? Look no further than Nutricost's caffeine supplement.
• Alcohol Laws in the United States by State — In the United States of America, every state has the right to create its own laws with regards to the sale of beer, wine and liquor. If you travel, it can be hard to keep up with all of the—sometimes insane—rules. That's why we created this Guide to Alcohol Laws by State.
• Blonde beer Styles for intense moments | Duvel — Duvel is a natural beer with a subtle bitterness, a refined flavour and a distinctive hop character. The refermentation in the bottle and a long maturation, guarantees a pure character, delicate effervescence and a pleasant sweet taste of alcohol.
• HLA-B27 - Wikipedia — Human leukocyte antigen (HLA) B27 (subtypes B*2701-2759) is a class I surface antigen encoded by the B locus in the major histocompatibility complex (MHC) on chromosome 6 and presents antigenic peptides (derived from self and non-self antigens) to T cells.
• Is citizenship just a rent? - Global Inequality and More — Citizenship as a fictitious commodity
• Air Quality Index — The Air Quality Index (AQI) is used for reporting daily air quality. It tells you how clean or polluted your air is, and what associated health effects might be a concern for you.

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• Critical Thinking isn't Just a Process - Insight — One of the things I noticed throughout the past year has been that a lot of my friends who had grown up in authoritarian or poor countries had a much easier time adjusting to our new pandemic reality. My childhood was intermittently full of shortages of various things. We developed a corresponding reflex for stocking up on things when they were available, anticipating what might be gone soon. That was quite useful for the pandemic. So was trying to read between the lines of official statements—what was said and what was not, who was sitting with whom on the TV, and evaluating what the rumor networks brought in. It turns out those are really useful skills when authorities are lying at all levels.
• In defense of interesting writing on controversial topics - Slow Boring — But even more so, social media incentivizes the wrong kind of reading. Today you read someone from a rival school of thought in order to find the paragraph or sentence that, when pulled out of context and paired with a witty Twitter quip, will garner you lots of little hearts. I’m as guilty of doing this as anyone. A lot of very smart people have poured a lot of time and energy into making you want to collect those little hearts.
• Twitter acquires Revue email newsletter service - The Verge — Twitter is acquiring Revue, an email service that lets writers publish newsletters. The move allows Twitter to capitalize on its user base of writers, journalists, and publications that regularly use the service to reach readers and grow their audiences.
• Lindy effect - Wikipedia — The Lindy effect is a theory that the future life expectancy of some non-perishable things like a technology or an idea is proportional to their current age, so that every additional period of survival implies a longer remaining life expectancy. Where the Lindy effect applies, mortality rate decreases with time.
• Gell-Mann Amnesia Effect | Loricism Wiki | Fandom — The Gell-Mann Effect, also called the Gell-Mann Amnesia Effect describes the phenomenon of an expert believing news articles on topics outside of their field of expertise even after acknowledging that articles written in the same publication that are within the expert's field of expertise are error-ridden and full of misunderstanding.

• Model zbog kojeg je Velika Britanija promenila svoju strategiju: Impact of non-pharmaceutical interventions (NPIs) to reduce COVID- 19 mortality and healthcare demand (PDF)
• Koliko dugo SARS-CoV-2 može da preživi u vazduhu, na plastici, nerđajućem čeliku, bakru, i kartonu? Aerosol and Surface Stability of SARS-CoV-2 as Compared with SARS-CoV-1 (NEJM)
• Meta-analiza efikasnosti različitih sredstava za dezinfekciju na SARS-CoV-1 i endemske koronaviruse (ali ne i SARS-CoV-2). Persistence of coronaviruses on inanimate surfaces and their inactivation with biocidal agents (JHIN)
• Ishodi kineskih pacijenata na bolničkom lečenju. Clinical course and risk factors for mortality of adult inpatients with COVID-19 in Wuhan, China: a retrospective cohort study (Lancet)

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