Guest Thinkers — December 21, 2010

Open Thread- July 7th

A weekly newsletter featuring the biggest ideas from the smartest people

Bad timing with schedules today, as we are both, for various reasons, going to be away from computers, at least sporadically. With that in mind, we invite our readers to participate in an open thread here. Please use the comment section to send each other links, provide analysis, thoughts, conjectures, predictions- whatever you feel like. This is a big day, and the more eyes on it the better. Thanks.

A weekly newsletter featuring the biggest ideas from the smartest people

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