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Links to useful resources around the web.

Nassim Taleb's Fooled By Randomness
https://www.fooledbyrandomness.com/ Author of the INCERTO a philosophical and practical essay on uncertainty (Skin In the Game, Antifragile, The Black Swan, Fooled by Randomness, and The Bed of Procrustes), a (so far) 5-volume”investigation of opacity, luck, uncertainty, probability, human error, risk,and decision making when we don’t understand the world, expressed in […]

Nassim Taleb’s Fooled By Randomness

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TUDelft Open CourseWare MOOC
https://ocw.tudelft.nl/programs/ “OpenCourseWare (OCW) is a free and open digital publication of high quality university‐level educational materials… Delft University of Technology has joined the Open Education Consortium in offering the world free access to certain course content online. TU Delft OpenCourseWare (OCW) seeks to capitalize on the potential of the internet […]

TUDelft Open Courseware

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Ballotpedia Electoral Encyclopedia
https://ballotpedia.org/   Ballotpedia is the digital encyclopedia of American politics and elections. Our goal is to inform people about politics by providing accurate and objective information about politics at all levels of government. We are firmly committed to neutrality in our content.   As a nonprofit, our mission is to […]

Ballotpedia Electoral Encyclopedia

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Real Clear Investigations features articles, in-depth journalism, and investigative reporting from their own writers and others.
https://realclearinvestigations.com/articles/ “Our mission is three-fold: curate the best investigative reporting found anywhere, produce our own in-depth journalism, and make this original work available to other news organizations.”

Real Clear Investigations

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Instructables Teachers Learn to Make Things Projects Activities
https://www.instructables.com/teachers/ “A PROJECT FOR EVERY LESSON Instructables is committed to helping teachers inspire, engage, and prepare students through hands-on projects to make in the classroom. Always free, and always fun, come explore projects for your next classroom lesson!”

Instructables Teachers

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Source: Josh Begley and Jeremy Scahill for The Intercept This is a labyrinth with 12 entrances and no exit. It is built on a cache of documents provided to The Intercept by a source within the intelligence community. Operators can watch their targets for hours, often from air-conditioned rooms, until they receive the order […]

Drones: A Visual Glossary

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goodhart%27s_law Goodhart’s law is an adage named after economist Charles Goodhart, which has been phrased by Marilyn Strathern as “When a measure becomes a target, it ceases to be a good measure.” One way in which this can occur is individuals trying to anticipate the effect of a policy and […]

Goodhart’s Law

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Dome of the Rock Jerusalem
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dome_of_the_Rockhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dome_of_the_Rock The Dome of the Rock (Arabic: قبة الصخرة‎ Qubbat al-Sakhrah, Hebrew: כיפת הסלע‎ Kippat ha-Sela) is an Islamic shrine located on the Temple Mount in the Old City of Jerusalem. It was initially completed in 691–92 CE at the order of Umayyad Caliph Abd al-Malik during the Second Fitna […]

Dome of The Rock Jerusalem

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New Discourses: "Pursuing the light of objective truth in subjective darkness." Articles and editorials, videos, podcast website and media group.
New Discourses: “Pursuing the light of objective truth in subjective darkness.” Articles and editorials, videos, podcast website and media group. Welcome to New Discourses! We like to think of this place as a home for the politically homeless, especially for those who feel like they’ve been displaced from their political […]

New Discourses

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Mullvad privacy TOR Browser
Mullvad Browser When you visit a website, you can be identified and tracked through your IP address, third-party cookies, all kinds of tracking scripts, and through so called browser fingerprints. That’s why masking your IP address is not enough to stop the data collection. However, by using a trustworthy VPN […]

Mullvad Browser

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Families for Home Education Homeschool Internet list of links to homeschooling and educational resources and activities.
https://fhe-mo.org/internetresources Families for Home Education Homeschool Internet has a huge list of links to homeschooling and educational resources and activities, college prep, laws, and curriculum.

FHE Homeschool Internet Resources

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National Archives Catalog
https://catalog.archives.gov/ The National Archives Catalog lets the staff and public search multiple National Archives resources at once. The catalog searches across archival descriptions, digitized and electronic records, authority records, and web pages from Archives.gov and the Presidential Libraries. The catalog also allows the public to participate in cataloging records by […]

National Archives Catalog

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Ron Paul Institute for Peace and Prosperity
http://ronpaulinstitute.org/ The Ron Paul Institute for Peace and Prosperity is a project of Dr. Paul’s Foundation for Rational Economics and Education (F.R.E.E.), founded in the 1970s as an educational organization. The Institute continues and expands Dr. Paul’s lifetime of public advocacy for a peaceful foreign policy and the protection of […]

Ron Paul Institute

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US Constitution Wiki
https://en.wikipedia.org/?title=United_States_Constitution   The Constitution of the United States is the supreme law of the United States of America.[2] The Constitution, originally comprising seven articles, delineates the national frame of government. Its first three articles embody the doctrine of the separation of powers, whereby the federal government is divided into three […]

US Constitution Wiki

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4th Amendment to the US Constitution
The fourth amendment to the U.S. Constitution reads: “The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no Warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by Oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the […]

4th Amendment to the US Constitution

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Source: Freedom of the Press Foundation Freedom of the Press Foundation is a 501(c)3 non-profit organization dedicated to helping support and defend public-interest journalism focused on exposing mismanagement, corruption, and law-breaking in government. We accept tax-deductible donations to a variety of journalism organizations that push for transparency and accountability, and […]

Freedom of the Press Foundation

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Journalist Suzanna Andrews
Source: SuzannaAndrews.com Suzanna Andrews is a contributing editor at Vanity Fair, where she writes features and investigative articles on business, politics, culture and crime. As a freelance journalist, she has written for New York Magazine, MORE, Bloomberg Businessweek, Reader’s Digest, The New York Times, GQ, Rolling Stone, and other publications. […]

Journalist Suzanna Andrews

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