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The
Extraordinary Science of Addictive Junk Food (New York Times Magazine):

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/02/24/magazine/the-extraordinary-science-of-junk-food.html

 

Eating
Well (New York Times):

http://www.nytimes.com/1992/07/01/garden/eating-well.html

 

Food
Politics (University of California Press):

http://books.google.com/books/about/Food_Politics.html
?id
=zvzTIUV9XNwC

 

Taxpayers
Turn U.S. Farmers Into Fat Cats With Subsidies (Bloomberg):

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2013-09-09/farmers-boost-revenue-sowing-subsidies-for-crop-insurance.html

 

Pharma
, Utilities and Big Ag Lead Lobbying in 2012
(Open Secrets):

https://www.opensecrets.org/news/2012/04/pharma-utilities-and-big-ag-lead-lo/

 

Farmer
In Chief (New York Times Magazine):

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/12/magazine/12policy-t.html

 

Our
Daily Bread (Boston Review):

http://www.bostonreview.net/rosamond-naylor-and-walter-falcon-our-daily-bread-global-food-crisis

 

The
Farm Bill: From Charitable Start to Prime Budget Target (NPR):

http://www.npr.org/blogs/thesalt/2011/09/26/140802243/the-farm-bill-from-charitable-start-to-prime-budget-target

 

Plowing
Farm Subsidies Under (National Review):

http://www.nationalreview.com/articles/220948/plowing-farm-subsidies-under/bruce-gardner

 

A
Fatally Flawed Food Guide (Whale): http://www.whale.to/a/light.html

 

Expect
A Food Fight as U.S. Sets to Revise Diet Guidelines (Wall Street Journal):

http://online.wsj.com/news/articles/SB106029373938596700

 

Why is Science Behind a
Paywall
?

 

UC research should be free - The Daily Californian:
http://www.dailycal.org/2013/02/01/uc-research-should-be-free/

 

Standing on the shoulders of giants - Wikipedia:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Standing_on_the_shoulders_of_giants

 

Leibniz–Newton calculus controversy - Wikipedia:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leibniz%E2%80%93Newton_calculus_controversy

 

Open science - Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_science

 

The Future of Science - Michael Nielsen:
http://michaelnielsen.org/blog/the-future-of-science-2/

 

File
:1665
phil
trans
vol
i
title.png -
Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:1665_phil_trans_vol_i_title.png

 

Faculty Advisory Council Memorandum on Journal Pricing (THE
HARVARD LIBRARY): http://isites.harvard.edu/icb/icb.do
?keyword
=k77982&tabgroupid=icb.tabgroup143448

 

Elsevier: http://www.elsevier.com/

 

Digital Marketing & Design Agency based in Central London -
SAS: http://reporting.reedelsevier.com/media/174016/reed_elsevier_ar_2012.pdf

 

The Business of Academic Publishing:
http://southernlibrarianship.icaap.org/content/v09n03/mcguigan_g01.html

 

Is the Academic Publishing Industry on the Verge of Disruption?
- US News: http://www.usnews.com/news/articles/2012/07/23/is-the-academic-publishing-industry-on-the-verge-of-disruption

 

Exclusion or efficient pricing?
The
"big deal" bundling of academic journals (
eScholarship
):
http://escholarship.org/uc/item/3nd7v77z#page-4

 

A message to the research community: Journal prices, discounts
and access - Elsevier:
http://www.elsevier.com/about/issues-and-information/elsevieropenletter

 

Publishing, perishing, and peer review - The Economist:
http://www.economist.com/node/603719

 

Publications | PLOS: http://www.plos.org/publications/

 

Researchers Finally Replicated Reinhart-
Rogoff
,
and There Are Serious Problems - Next New Deal:
http://www.nextnewdeal.net/rortybomb/researchers-finally-replicated-reinhart-rogoff-and-there-are-serious-problems

 

Reinhart-
Rogoff
Rebuttal Says UMass
Critics Politicized Debt - Bloomberg:

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2013-04-26/reinhart-rogoff-dispute-umass-criticism-of-debt-study-findings.html"

 

Peer review is f***
ed
up – let’s
fix it: http://www.michaeleisen.org/blog/?p=694

 

GitHub
;
Build software better, together: https://github.com/

 

Tim Berners-Lee- Wikipedia:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tim_Berners-Lee

 

Is College Worth It?

 

College Education Value Rankings -
PayScale
2013 College ROI Report

: http://www.payscale.com/college-education-value-2013"

Where is the Best Place to Invest $102,000
 

 
The
Hamilton Project:
http://www.hamiltonproject.org/papers/where_is_the_best_place_to_invest_102000_--_in_stocks_bonds_or_a_colle/%20

 

20 Surprising Higher Education Facts - US News:
http://www.usnews.com/education/blogs/the-college-solution/2011/09/06/20-surprising-higher-education-facts

 

9 Problems with
Payscale.com's
College
Rankings (and One Solution) - Around Learning:
http://aroundlearning.com/2013/09/8-problems-with-payscale-coms-college-rankings-and-one-solution/

College Scorecard:

http://collegecost.ed.gov/scorecard/UniversityProfile.aspx
?org
=s&id=243744"

 

Shocking Chart on Tuition vs. Earnings for College Grads - The
Fiscal Times:
http://www.thefiscaltimes.com/Articles/2012/11/30/Shocking-Chart-on-Tuition-vs-Earnings-for-College-Grads#page1%20

 

What's Really 'Immoral' About Student Loans - WSJ.com:
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424127887324688404578541372861440606.html
?mod
=WSJ_article_comments#articleTabs%3Darticle

Regardless of the Cost, College Still Matters - Brookings
Institution:
http://www.brookings.edu/blogs/jobs/posts/2012/10/05-jobs-greenstone-looney"

 

The Tuition is Too Damn High, Part II;
Why
college is still worth it:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/wonkblog/wp/2013/08/27/the-tuition-is-too-damn-high-part-ii-why-college-is-still-worth-it/

 

How Art History Majors Power the U.S. Economy - Bloomberg View:
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2012-01-06/postrel-how-art-history-majors-power-the-u-s-.html

 

Academically Adrift (Richard Arum,
Josipa
Roksa
):

http://www.amazon.com/Academically-Adrift-Limited-Learning-Campuses/dp/0226028550

 

Public Universities Ramp Up Aid for the Wealthy, Leaving the
Poor Behind -
ProPublica
:
http://www.propublica.org/article/how-state-schools-ramp-up-aid-for-the-wealthy-leaving-the-poor-behind

 

The Scariest Student Loan Figure is $14,500 - NewAmerica.org:
http://higheredwatch.newamerica.net/blogposts/2013/debt_dollars_need_context-89338

 

Welcome to CollegeMeasures.org - CollegeMeasures.org:
http://collegemeasures.org/4-year_colleges/home/

 

Why Do You Think They're Called For-Profit Colleges? - The
Chronicle of Higher Education:
http://chronicle.com/article/Why-Do-You-Think-Theyre/123660/

 

Annual Portrait of Education Documents Swift Rise of For-Profit
Colleges - The Chronicle of Higher Education:

http://chronicle.com/article/Annual-Portrait-of-Education/127639/

 

Bankers Warn Fed of Farm, Student Loan Bubbles Echoing Subprime
-
Businessweek
:
http://www.businessweek.com/news/2013-05-07/bankers-warn-fed-of-farm-student-loan-bubbles-echoing-subprime%20

 

NY Fed: Student Loans Presentation - Business Insider: http://www.businessinsider.com/ny-fed-student-loans-presentation-2013-2#people-with-lots-of-student-debt-are-less-likely-to-take-out-a-mortgage-15

 

Massive open online course - Wikipedia:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Massive_open_online_course

 

Rohan
Dixit:
http://www.rohandixit.com

 

Josh Freedman - Forbes:
http://www.forbes.com/sites/joshfreedman/

 

College ROI 2013 Methodology:
http://www.payscale.com/data-packages/college-roi-2013/methodology"

 

IPEDS Data Center: http://nces.ed.gov/ipeds/datacenter/Default.aspx"

 

College Scorecard: http://collegecost.ed.gov/scorecard/"

 

FinAid
Calculators - Education Loan Interest Rates:
http://www.finaid.org/loans/scripts/interest.cgi

 

Is
College Worth It? (
FiveThirtyEight
):

http://fivethirtyeight.com/datalab/is-college-worth-it-it-depends-on-whether-you-graduate/


The
Class of 2011: Young Workers Face a Dire Labor Market Without a Safety Net
(Economic Policy Institute):

http://www.epi.org/publication/bp306-class-of-2011/

 
 

PART III: The Business of Manipulation

 

How Marketers Invented Body Odor

 

Genetically, Some of Us Never Have Body Odor, But We Still Think
We're Smelly
-  Motherboard
:
http://motherboard.vice.com/blog/even-if-you-dont-smell-you-probably-use-deodorant

 

The Power of Habit by Charles
Duhigg
:
http://charlesduhigg.com/the-power-of-habit/

 

History, Travel, Arts, Science, People, Places - Smithsonian:
http://www.smithsonianmag.com/history-archaeology/How-Advertisers-Convinced-Americans-They-Smelled-Bad-164779646.html
?c
=y&story=fullstory

 

AAF Hall of Fame: Members:
http://advertisinghall.org/members/member_bio.php?memid=826

 

The World's Most Expensive Free Credit Report

 

Marketer
of Free Credit Reports Settles FTC Charges (FTC):

http://www.ftc.gov/news-events/press-releases/2005/08/marketer-free-credit-reports-settles-ftc-charges

 

Consumerinfo.com
Settles FTC Charges (FTC):

http://www.ftc.gov/news-events/press-releases/2007/02/consumerinfocom-settles-ftc-charges

 

False
Advertising (Wikipedia):

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/False_advertising

 

Snapchat
and FTC Privacy and Security Consent Orders
(LinkedIn):

https://www.linkedin.com/today/post/article/20140512053224-2259773-the-anatomy-of-an-ftc-privacy-and-data-security-consent-order

 

FTC
Finally Forces FreeCreditReport.com To Be Honest (Tech Dirt):

https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20100302/2343298378.shtml

 

Queen's
birthday
honours
list - Knights (The Guardian)

http://www.theguardian.com/uk/2011/jun/11/queens-birthday-honours-knights

 

Credit
Card Act of 2009 (Wikipedia):

 
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Credit_CARD_Act_of_2009

 

AnnualCreditReport.com:

https://www.annualcreditreport.com/index.action

 

Credit
checker Experian fears Brazil World Cup toll on business (Financial Times):

http://www.ft.com/intl/cms/s/0/ebd8bbb6-d5c2-11e3-a017-00144feabdc0.html#axzz33n9Q60ex

 

FreeCreditScore.com
(Wikipedia):

 
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FreeCreditScore.com

 

What Happens to Donated Cars?

 

Most Expensive Keywords in Google (Fetch123):

http://www.fetch123.com/SEM/the-most-expensive-keywords-in-google

 

Vehicle Donations (US General Accounting Office):

http://www.gao.gov/new.items/d0473.pdf

 

Cars (Priceonomics)

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