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My Professional Armchair Analysis of CES
2018-01-17 21:50:00| PC Magazine: the Official John C. Dvorak RSS Feed
No one needs to go to this annual gadget tradeshow when it's already over-covered by every media out
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How to check out your next penthouse from your armchair
2016-05-24 01:19:10| BBC News | Business | UK Edition
How to check out that New York condo from Paris
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United Kingdom: Ex-environment minister hits back at politician 'armchair hydrologists'
2014-02-13 23:30:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: A former Conservative environment minister who has been criticised along with the Environment Agency for mismanaging flood prevention has hit back at what he described as "politicians seeking to become armchair hydrologists". Richard Benyon has been accused by some south-west MPs and the communities secretary, Eric Pickles, of blocking dredging on the Somerset Levels during his period as environment minister. Writing for the Guardian, Benyon said he was "uncomfortable with those that reach...
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Global warming, Arctic ice loss, and armchair scientists
2013-08-12 08:16:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: As humans put more and more heat-trapping gases into the atmosphere, the Earth's climate changes; we all know that. Some of the trickier questions are, how fast is it changing, what can we expect in the future, what are the costs of slowing emissions (compared to the costs of doing nothing), and what changes are we already observing that give us such confidence in our predictions? Perhaps the poster child of climate change is in the Arctic, where sea ice has been declining at an astonishing rate....
05.20: An Armchair Traveller's History of Istanbul
2013-04-15 20:36:29| Powells Books Events Calendar
The great crossroads, Istanbul has absorbed several millennia of different influences. Richard Tillinghast's An Armchair Traveller's History of Istanbul (Haus Pub.) offers a rich history of the city standing at the crossroads of Europe and Asia.
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