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Urban farming movement 'like a revolution'
www.cnn.com/2009/LIVING/06/29/bia.urban.farming/index.html
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Both Allen and Myers agree that the boom in urban farming for African-Americans is born out of necessity and not just echoing traditions.
"Minority people are affected by poor food, more than any other groups," and many inner cities lack ( Read more... ) -
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This is a wonderful article
Unskilled and Unaware of It: How Difficulties in Recognizing One's Own Incompetence Lead to Inflated Self-Assessments
Abstract: People tend to hold overly favorable views of their abilities in many social and intellectual domains. The authors suggest that this overestimation occurs, in part, because people who are unskilled in these domains suffer ( Read more... ) -
Interesting paper on political affiliation
http://homepages.nyu.edu/~amk308/Jost%20Ledgerwood%20&%20Hardin%202008.pdf
From page 7:
Recent research has shed some light on the cognitive-motivational mechanisms by which identification-based motives come to influence political opinions. Specifically, Cohen (2003) found that liberal and conservative participants who were presented with either a ( Read more... )
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