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Links to useful resources around the web.





https://www.muckrock.com/ “File, track, and share public records requests. MuckRock is a non-profit, collaborative news site that brings together journalists, researchers, activists, and regular citizens to request, analyze, and share government documents, making politics more transparent and democracies more informed. The site provides a repository of hundreds of thousands of pages […]

MuckRock FOIA Public Records Requests Archive







Yuka Food App Barcode Scanner
Yuka.io is a barcode scanner app that displays nutrition information for food products. “Yuka is a small team of 12 people who pour their energy each day into a job that means something to them: a free app to help individuals make the right choices for their health. The Yuka […]

Yuka Food App




Seven Lesser Known Classical Liberal Thinkers
1. Herbert Spencer Recommended reading: Social Statics A polymath, Herbert Spencer was originally known for his writing on biology. He coined the phrase “survival of the fittest,” used to describe the process of natural selection. Spencer rose to prominence by extending the lessons of biological evolution to politics and sociology. […]

7 Lesser-Known Classical Liberal Thinkers

















Source: https://mises.org/ The Mises Institute, founded in 1982, is an educational institution devoted to advancing Austrian economics, freedom, and peace in the classical-liberal tradition.   For over 30 years the Mises Institute has provided both scholars and laymen with resources to broaden their understanding of the economic school of thought […]

Ludwig Von Mises Institute



WikiSource Documents Archive
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Main_Page “Poetry from ancient and romantic to modern, in love and war Texts, laws, constitutions of many countries Documents from US history, including Revolution and Civil War US law: Supreme Court decisions, government documents, presidential addresses General literature: modern novels and short stories, horror stories, children’s literature, science fiction, drama […]

WikiSource Documents Archive





Michael Scheuer's Non-Intervention
http://www.non-intervention2.com/ Michael F. Scheuer (born 1952) is a former intelligence officer for the Central Intelligence Agency, American blogger, author, foreign policy critic, political analyst, and former adjunct professor at Georgetown University’s Center for Peace and Security Studies. One assignment during his 22-year career was serving as Chief of the Bin […]

Michael Scheuer’s Non-Intervention



HowMuch.net Understanding Money in Visualizations and Infographics
https://howmuch.net/ HowMuch.net was born with one mission: “Understanding Money.” We create unique, beautiful, compelling, and easy-to-understand guides and visualizations to help people make better financial decisions. By turning complicated economic & financial matters into digestible visuals accompanied by insightful articles, we help people become better informed about financial facts that […]

HowMuch.net Understanding Money in Infographics and Visualizations


Smithsonian Institute Educator Resources
https://www.si.edu/educators The Smithsonian offers many resources to support educators, caregivers, and students in the classroom, at home, and at our museums, research centers, and zoo. Education is at the core of our mission—the increase and diffusion of knowledge—from informal education for students to lesson plans and professional development for teachers. […]

Smithsonian Institute Educator Resources
















Laotian Plain of Jars
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plain_of_Jars The Plain of Jars (Lao: ທົ່ງໄຫຫິນ [tʰōŋ hǎj hǐn]) is a megalithic archaeological landscape in Laos. It consists of thousands of stone jars scattered around the upland valleys and the lower foothills of the central plain of the Xiangkhoang Plateau. The jars are arranged in clusters ranging in number […]

Plain of Jars Laos






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




Sacsayhuaman
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sacsayhuam%C3%A1n Saqsaywaman,[1][2] which can be spelled many different ways [3] (possibly from Quechua language, waman falcon[4] or variable hawk)[5], is a citadel on the northern outskirts of the city of Cusco, Peru, the historic capital of the Inca Empire. Sections were first built by the Killke culture about 1100; they […]

Sacsayhuaman Peru
















https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St._Peter%27s_Baldachin St. Peter’s Baldachin (Italian: Baldacchino di San Pietro, L’Altare di Bernini) is a large Baroque sculpted bronze canopy, technically called a ciborium or baldachin, over the high altar of St. Peter’s Basilica in Vatican City, the city-state and papal enclave surrounded by Rome, Italy. The baldachin is at the […]

St. Peter’s Baldachin Vatican City