Suggestions for your daily info diet. You are what you read!

Summary:  Here are my favorite sources of information.  You might find some of them of use.  In the comments post your favorite sources of information.

Contents

1. Economics
2. Military Affairs
3. Online magazines for a general audience
4. Politics and Geopolitics
5. Science
6. General News agencies — my favorites
7. Other sources useful for research
8. Special interests
9. For More Information

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(1)  Economics

• Top Recommendation: Paul Krugman’s column at the New York Times
• Brad DeLong’s website (Prof Economics, Berkeley)
• Calculated Risk — notes about today’s economic indicators; not so hot analysis
• China Financial Markets by Michael Pettis (Prof Finance, Peking U) — news from the new center of the world
• The Economist magazine
• Marginal Revolution — website of Tyler Cowen (Prof Economics, George Mason U)
• Roubini’s Economonitor — a wide range of economic commentary

For more see Reliable sources of information about Economics.

(2)  Military Affairs

• Information Dissemination — All about naval affairs
• Marine Corps Gazette
• Small Wars Journal

(3)  Politics and Geopolitics

• TOP recommendation: Glenn Greenwald
• AntiWar website
• Foreign Affairs magazine
• Foreign Policy magazine
• The Monkey Cage — political science research
• Naked Capitalism
• Stratfor Global Research
• Tom Engelhardt’s TomDispatch
• Matt Taibbi at Rolling Stone

For more sources see A guide to sources of geopolitical insight on the Internet.

(4)  Science

• Climate Etc — website of Judith Curry (Chair of the School of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences at the Georgia Institute of Technology)
• Nature magazine
• New Scientist magazine
• NOAA’s Climate Prediction Center — Especially note the ENSO tracking page
• Roger Pielke Jr’s website (Prof Environment Science, U CO Boulder)
• Science magazine

(5)  Online magazines for a general audience

• The Atlantic
• London Review of Books
• New York Review of Books
• Salon magazine
• Slate magazine

(6)  General News agencies — my favorites

• Financial Times, New York Times, Reuters, Der Spiegel

(7)  Other sources useful for research

• Questia Online Research — online books and magazines, worth the money
• Scribd online library — worth the money
• Snopes Urban Legend Archive — check that story before you pass it on

(8)  Special interests

Where to go to follow this unusual solar cycle:

• NASA Solar Cycle Prediction
• NOAA Solar Cycle Progression

(9)  For More Information

About the mainstream media:

1. A time-saving tip when reading the daily news, 2 January 2008
2. Only our amnesia makes reading the newspapers bearable, 30 April 2008
3. “Elegy for a rubber stamp”, by Lewis Lapham, 26 August 2008
4. “The Death of Deep Throat and the Crisis of Journalism”, 23 December 2008
5. The media doing what it does best these days, feeding us disinformation, 18 February 2009 — About sea ice
6. The magic of the mainstream media changes even the plainest words into face powder, 24 April 2009
7. The media – a broken component of America’s machinery to observe and understand the world, 2 June 2009
8. We’re ignorant about the world because we rely on our media for information, 3 June 2009
9. We know nothing because we read newspapers, 12 October 2009 – About mythical numbers
10. The Raymond Davis incident shows that we’re often ignorant because we rely on the US news media.  There is a solution., 18 February 2011