The Crockpot: A Weekly Digest 04.03.12

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Why America’s schools are doing better
than you think
.

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The world’s first comic-book
dissertation
.

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A new map helps community
gardeners find vacant
land in New York City
.

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The full-size office that doubles
as a giant suitcase
.

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37 million people try to
access the 1940 census archives at
the same time
.

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The House of Commons hacks
Wikipedia
.

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Why the subprime mess was bad
for segregation
.

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A nifty graph on copyright
law and the midcentury
book desert
.   

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My Liberal Party MP can
beat up
your Conservative Party Senator.

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A college professor wants
to pay
you to go to school
.

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A Japanese photographer floats
across Tokyo
(or so it seems).

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Why NPR owes a lot to the sinking
of the Titanic
. Like much of the ship itself, the Titanic’s radio equipment
was among the most advanced in the early 20th century world. It’s
failure to properly alert maritime authorities was something of a wake-up call
for radio engineers to develop a more reliable and more standard system of
communication.

Image by Andrei
Niemimäki
, licensed under Creative Commons.

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