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Football Fables

The beautiful game bestrides the world like a colossus

But Blind They Were

The fallacy of an empty continent

Alberta and Me

From a land of oil, true enough

Joshua Gans

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Joshua Gans

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Where BlackBerry’s founders went wrong July–August 2015
I owned a BlackBerry during 2007. I loved it. Having finally realized that the phone was not the thing—email was—I wanted to be connected all the time. It was not pretty but it worked. It kept my contacts, my calendar and a few other things. I customized the alerts to make a simple Star Trek beep when notifications came…