What's All The Land In America Worth?

After yesterday's post on the aggregate value of all the housing in America, a couple of correspondents noted to me that for recent decades you can actually impute the value of all the land in...

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The land in America is worth about $16.42 trillion—probably enough that we don’t need any income taxes: http://www.slate.com/blogs/moneybox/2013/12/20/value_of_all_land_in_the_united_states.html …

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Music Brings Memories Back to the Brain Injured

By Neuroscience News @NeuroscienceNew

Researchers use popular music to help patients with brain injuries recall autobiographical memories.

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Music Brings Memories Back to the Brain Injured | @NeuroscienceNew http://ow.ly/rFZIa #Neuroscience #Memory #TBI

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‏@Neuroelectrics

EEG for Dummies http://hub.am/18yfP8t #tDCS #experiment #neuro #neuroscience #eeg @NeuroscienceNew

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‏@CreativelyFwrd

#CreativePick @DrDanSiegel for improvement of one's well-being, and also the well-being of others: http://creativelyforward.com/education/parenting-resources/dr-dan-siegel/ …

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‏@WakemanAgency

Five sustainable best practices proven to put money in your pocket, from @triplepundit

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New Study Reports on Traumatic Brain Injury Rehab Outcomes

By Neuroscience News @NeuroscienceNew

A new study reports on the outcomes at post discharge and one year periods varied across Traumatic Brain Injury Model System centers.

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How Healthy Relationships Change Our Brains

A groundbreaking new study on how healthy relationships change our brains has recently been released.

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http://mentalhealth.about.com/od/systems/fl/How-Healthy-Relationships-Change-Our-Brains.htm

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Alzheimer’s, Schizophrenia & Autism Can Be Studied with Brain Cells...

By Neuroscience News @NeuroscienceNew

A new method for obtaining mature neuronal cells from reprogrammed skin cells allows researchers to safely and effectively study diseases such as schizophrenia and autism.

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Alzheimer’s, Schizophrenia & Autism Can Be Studied w\ Brain Cells Reprogrammed from Skin Cells via @NeuroscienceNew http://ow.ly/rjlqL

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Conservative groups spend $1bn a year to fight action on climate...

Author of study on groups opposing US political action says: 'I call it the climate-change counter movement'

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Conservative groups spend $1bn a year to fight action on #climate change -

Guardian: http://gu.com/p/3ydxj/tf

‏@ianbremmer

THE NEW RULES OF GLOBALIZATION, my piece on risk, reward & strategic sectors in @HarvardBiz Jan/Feb issue: http://hbr.org/2014/01/the-new-rules-of-globalization/ar/1 …

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TechCrunch

Warby Parker Raises $60 Million From Existing Investors |…

Online eyeglasses company Warby Parker just raised a $60 million Series C round from its existing investors, with Tiger Global Management leading. General Catalyst Partners, Spark Capital, Thrive…

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‏@TechCrunch

Warby Parker Raises $60 Million From Existing Investors http://tcrn.ch/1bUXL6K by @romaindillet

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‏@TheLimerickKing

A Canadian bubble is blowing Our house prices just keep on growing Are we afraid Of prices we've paid? Hey look everybody...it's snowing!!!

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Tabletop volcano crackles with lightning

Geologists have built a model volcano that crackles with lightning as it erupts, hinting at a new way of judging the risk to aircraft following an eruption. ...

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Volcanic lightning captured in a bottle, and captured on film too http://ow.ly/rXWW6 (vid>> http://youtu.be/PaLNrA9vYgc )

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Oracle is buying digital marketing software company Responsys for around $1.5 billion http://adweek.it/1etF0fc

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Spectacular Displays of Dancing Aurora: Photos

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‏@Discovery_News

Spectacular Displays of Dancing Aurora: Photos http://ow.ly/2CiLKR

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‏@StanfordBiz

Your voice's pitch, volume, and pace affect what people think you say 5x as much your words http://stnfd.biz/rYgy5

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“@NeuroscienceNew:Tinnitus Discovery Opens Door to Possible New Treatment Avenues - http://buff.ly/IU2z2g ”“@NeuroscienceNew:Tinnitus Discovery Opens Door to Possible New Treatment Avenues - http://buff.ly/IU2z2g ”

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Looking forward to release of #Brainstorm by @DrDanSiegel on the all important neuroscience of adolescence http://bit.ly/brainstormbook

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The Logistics of Learning

By Neuroscience News @NeuroscienceNew

Two new studies provide new insights into the molecular mechanisms that underlie the learning process.

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@NeuroscienceNew: The Logistics of Learning - http://neurosciencenews.com/neural-logistics-learning-memory-699/ … #neuroscience

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Grist

A big win for small farmers (and the eaters who love them)

By Nathanael Johnson @SavorTooth

The Food Safety Modernization Act might have put some small farmers out of business. After a public outcry, the FDA promises to make significant changes to the rules.

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‏@michaelpollan

A big win for small farmers (and the eaters who love them) | Grist http://bit.ly/1kqHUkT

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Mapping Objects in the Brain

By Neuroscience News @NeuroscienceNew

Researcher report a brain region which responds to a particular category of objects consists of a small cluster of neurons which encodes the visual features of these objects.

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‏@recherche_anima

In Macaque Monkey RT @NeuroscienceNew: Mapping Objects in the Brain - http://neurosciencenews.com/brain-mapping-objects-698/ … #neuroscience

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Low valuation can persist a long time if a company is unable, unwilling or just too clumsy to fix its capital structure. $GSL

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‏@BBCNews

Man jailed after his dog attacked police, who entered his home, has conviction overturned http://bbc.in/1cGMIf4

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‏@Neuro_Skeptic

If you make people think they're thinking, they'll retweet you; but if you really make them think, they'll unfollow you. - Don Marquis

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Good-bye mama and papa Good-bye jack and jill The grass aint greener The wine aint sweeter Either side of the hill pic.twitter.com/0a9yK4rTxc

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7 Things No One Tells You About Being Homeless from http://Cracked.com #Anon #OpSafeWinter @cracked http://fb.me/3xSHOzXzv

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Raju Narisetti talks about why News Corp. bought Storyful and founder...

By Mathew Ingram @mathewi

News Corp.’s acquisition of Storyful for $25 million is a sign of how important user-generated content has become, so I spoke with Raju Narisetti of News Corp. and Storyful founder Mark Little about...

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‏@BBCNews

Fake vodka 'can kill you' warning http://bbc.in/1cH1vX8

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Wall Street Journal

5 Takeaways From BlackBerry’s Steep Loss - Five Things - WSJ

Here are five takeaways from BlackBerry's dour report.

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‏@WSJ

BlackBerry posted a third-quarter loss of $4.4 billion. 5 takeaways from the dour report: http://on.wsj.com/J1ZddD

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IAC Has Responded To Its PR Director's Cringeworthy Tweet

By Caroline Moss @socarolinesays

Justine Sacco, head of PR at IAC, has some explaining to do.

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IAC has responded to its PR director's cringeworthy tweet http://read.bi/JbpEgp

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An amazing look into how astronauts took the most important photo in space history--VIDEO: http://slate.me/1fMvqkL pic.twitter.com/OANz0UNs4A

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‏@Forbes

Nine West founder Vince Camuto just sold his home in the Hamptons for $75 million. http://onforb.es/J2V7SI pic.twitter.com/kw0QEhMD5b

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Who Says Laughter's the Best Medicine?

Just in time to protect patients from the dangers of holiday cheer, a new scholarly review from a British medical journal describes many harmful effects wrought by laughter.

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‏@nytimes

This isn't funny http://nyti.ms/1bVfzPh

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