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Amanda Ripley

Personal blog · amandaripley.com/blogotherpolitics

Amanda Ripley's personal blog at amandaripley.com covers politics. Since 2011, 3 different Hacker News readers have linked it 4 times. No feed was found, so read it on the site itself.

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3HN people?
2011–2013first – last linked?
Links on Hacker News per year · peak 2 in 2011

Too few sampled comments (1) to say how often HN recommends it.?

Why HN links it

HN readers link Amanda Ripley's site for her book The Unthinkable, a journalist's account of how people survive disasters, which one commenter calls an excellent book.

Summarised by Claude from a sample of 1 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.

Amanda Ripley is a New York Times bestselling author, a Washington Post contributor, and the co-founder of Good Conflict, a media and training company that helps people reimagine conflict.

What Hacker News says?

  1. This is so true. In fact, there's an excellent book by a journalist named Amanda Ripley that describes this phenomenon called The Unthinkable: Who Survives When Disaster Strikes[0]. 0. http://www.amandaripley.com/book

    Comment linking /book

    on “Meteorite crash in Russia”
  2. Submitted Is Occupy Wall Street Really about Education Reform? as a story · 2 points

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  3. Submitted Are International Comparisons Unfair? as a story · 1 points

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  4. Submitted Japan and the Cliché of Stoicism as a story · 1 points

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