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How to not be unemployed in a recession

July 19, 2011

We interrupt this blog for a SERIOUSBUSINESS post on economics. I’ve been on Google+ for about two weeks now, and I’m really hoping everyone switches over from Facebook, if only because you can get quality conversations like this (and also for the animated GIFs)   I came across the piece yesterday, talking about the recession and how there’s an employment bubble.  The author writes, For people who spend most of their days within a few blocks of tech start-up epicenters ...

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Giving to Charity

May 9, 2011

Akhila (whom I’ve had the pleasure of meeting in person before) and I recently had a discussion on Twitter about charity.  On Friday, I tweeted a link which made me feel guilty and want to give more money to charity, and then another link which made me feel guilty for feeling guilty.  So, I wondered, Whoops. Sorry, that one was about the hawk cam. I wondered about the effectiveness of giving to charity, and about the second article which discouraged ...

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If you’re interested in if the world economy will ever recover

May 24, 2010

I wrote a piece for work for industry publication American Shipper, which you can read here, under “Trade Forecast 2010″ (requires registration but is free.) I’m pretty proud of it.

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Mrs. Bej and Bellydancing After the Saudi Arabian Embassy

January 19, 2010

Years ago (10th grade), I had a wonderful Honors World Cultures teacher, Mrs.Vera  Bej (pronounced Bey.)  She was from Soviet Czechoslovakia, and she blew my mind. Raised in suburbia, secluded from any type of ethnic, religious, or racial minority, I felt on my own as a Russian Jew with mainly American friends. Adriano Celentano was my favorite singer, Lagaan was my favorite movie, and my parents would have hour-long blab sessions with their friends about how Putin was going to ...

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Riding a horse is like blogging, except you can’t become a parapalegic if you blog

January 18, 2010

This Saturday, when the weather decided to become more clement (see chart of weather clement-ness below,) Mr. B and I went horseback riding in Virginia.  My friend Christina is an avid rider and in the process of purchasing a horse, and she wanted to go see it this weekend, so I asked if we could tag along. We’d been riding before, once in the Golan Heights at Vered HaGalil and once in Bucks County, Pennsylvania, and we liked it a ...

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