1) Coursera's next course on data analysis using R starts January 22nd (via Yaniv Stopnitzky)
2) Dropboxifier lets you back up / share folders via Dropbox without relocating them (via The Lazy Economist)
3) Banerjee and Duflo's "The Challenges of Global Poverty" starts Feb. 13th on edX (via Hartmut Fisher)
4) Google Ph.D. Fellowship nominations and applications are due Feb. 1st
5) The first atmospheric carbon dioxide capture plant is planned to open by end of 2014 (via Marion Dumas)
6) Easy ways to alienate yourself from a profession, Forbes lifestyle piece edition (via Ivana Ng)
7) 125 years of National Geographic photos (via Dave Pell)
8) David Enfield's ENSO FAQ is an oldie but a goodie
9) Daniel Aldrich's two pieces on the "soft approach" to countering violent extremism are now out (see under "Countering Violent Extremism", and previously on FE)
10) "Knowledge workers are bad at working." Cal Newport on the value of "deep work"
11) A mysterious patch of light shows up in the North Dakota dark (via Padraic Hughes)
2) Dropboxifier lets you back up / share folders via Dropbox without relocating them (via The Lazy Economist)
3) Banerjee and Duflo's "The Challenges of Global Poverty" starts Feb. 13th on edX (via Hartmut Fisher)
4) Google Ph.D. Fellowship nominations and applications are due Feb. 1st
5) The first atmospheric carbon dioxide capture plant is planned to open by end of 2014 (via Marion Dumas)
6) Easy ways to alienate yourself from a profession, Forbes lifestyle piece edition (via Ivana Ng)
7) 125 years of National Geographic photos (via Dave Pell)
8) David Enfield's ENSO FAQ is an oldie but a goodie
9) Daniel Aldrich's two pieces on the "soft approach" to countering violent extremism are now out (see under "Countering Violent Extremism", and previously on FE)
10) "Knowledge workers are bad at working." Cal Newport on the value of "deep work"
11) A mysterious patch of light shows up in the North Dakota dark (via Padraic Hughes)
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