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How Socio-Economic Background Shapes Academia - We explore how socio-economic background shapes academia, collecting the largest dataset of U.S. academics’ backgrounds and research output. Individuals ...2 hours ago
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Trading Natures: Green-Worlds Along the Medieval Silk Road - Paper give at the Macrohistorical Dynamics in Eurasia Conference2 hours ago
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Bagaimana Container 40 Feet Mendukung Bisnis Ritel dan E-Commerce - Dunia ritel dan e-commerce sedang berkembang pesat, terutama setelah tren belanja online mengalami lonjakan besar dalam beberapa tahun terakhir. Ketika p...3 hours ago
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Reader’s Links for December 28th, 2024 - And a merry Christmas and happy New Year to all, and with thanks to everyone for your continued attention to this site, its way of looking at the issues, a...4 hours ago
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Why OpenAI’s Structure Must Evolve To Advance Our Mission - Published on December 28, 2024 4:24 AM GMT The section "The Future": As we enter 2025, we will have to become more than a lab and a startup — we have to b...5 hours ago
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The golden age of immigration is now - Opponents of immigration often lament the fact that the US used to attract high quality immigrants from places like Europe, but now is supposedly being o...5 hours ago
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Radio Derb December 27 2024 - This Week’s Show Contents 01m28s America First, Americans First 06m50s End guest-worker visas 13m48s Does Trump remember his first term? 21m27s Importing a...6 hours ago
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Publick Notice - For some strange reason, I have been inundated with spam emails today—well over a thousand so far, and counting—forcing me to interrupt what of right ought...7 hours ago
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Trump just wants to copy NZ citizenship law - Politico reports: Donald Trump’s team is crafting an executive order to end birthright citizenship for the children of undocumented immigrants, a monumenta...7 hours ago
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Is it 2015 again? - Ructions. Freethought Now, the blog or online magazine of the Freedom From Religion Foundation, posted an article last month by someone named Kat Grant t...8 hours ago
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Bird Flu Virus Mutations Discovered In First Severe Human Case In US, CDC Says - Authored by Katabella Roberts via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has found mutations in samples taken...8 hours ago
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Georgia Lawmakers Can Subpoena Fani Willis Over Trump Case - Willis faces allegations of wrongdoing while investigating and prosecuting Donald Trump and others for allegedly trying to overturn the 2020 election in ...9 hours ago
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Notes From Swannanoa – Part IV - [image: Notes From Swannanoa – Part IV] It has been 88 days since Helene. Some days, it feels like years since the flooding, mudslides, and high winds fore...9 hours ago
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A House Divided - The social-media site formerly known as Twitter was aflame, over the past couple of days, with a squabble among various factions of the new Right about the...10 hours ago
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All We Are Asking IS Give Kids A Chance - It’s one of those things… Apparently Vivek Ramaswamy, whom I’ll remind everyone was not my choice for president at any time (for a variety of reasons) deci...10 hours ago
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Review Riverbend, Baghdad Burning, Girl Blog From Iraq, The Feminist Press, 2005 - *Riverbend, Baghdad Burning, Girl Blog From Iraq, The Feminist Press, 2005* In August 2003 an Iraqi woman going by the name Riverbend started a blog ...11 hours ago
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Native American Indian Lands Were Stolen--From Other Indians - If you go to "Native Land Digital," you will see a map of North America showing the lands claimed by indigenous peoples. If you live in North America, y...12 hours ago
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New Books and ARCs, 12/27/24 - And now, the last stack of New Books and ARCs of 2024, featuring quite a few snazzy limited editions by the always fabulous Subterranean Press. What here w...12 hours ago
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Was Yesterday's Forecast a Success? - Time for a little "inside baseball" on weather forecasting, particularly regarding yesterday's wind event. There were a few comments about the forecast ...12 hours ago
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Great communist successes: Cuba the “sugar bowl of the world” now has to import sugar - Photo by Ansalmo Juvaga By Jo Nova Things were dire in October, and they aren’t getting better: Spare a thought for the people of Cuba. In October, Cuba...13 hours ago
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Is Star Trek REALLY Removing Discovery From Canon Continuity? - ------------------------------ Support Jon Support Me On Subscribe Star Get FREE Books! Independent journalism isn’t easy and I can use all of the help I...13 hours ago
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The scale was almost comical - Last month, Dwarkesh spent two weeks in China, visiting Beijing, Chengdu, Dujiangyan, Chongqing, Shanghai, and Hangzho: It’s funny how China has basically ...14 hours ago
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When is an insurrection not an insurrection? When the left does it - And notice that to these two lawyers, “our democracy” isn’t so very precious: Evan Davis, the former editor-in-chief of the Columbia Law Review, and Davi...14 hours ago
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When is an insurrection not an insurrection? When the left does it - And notice that to these two lawyers, “our democracy” isn’t so very precious: Evan Davis, the former editor-in-chief of the Columbia Law Review, and Davi...14 hours ago
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The Kumbaya Phase Is Now Over. Back to Our Regularly Scheduled Chaos. - The euphoria over the collapse of the Assad regime lasted, oh, a good two weeks. Now the meet-the-new-boss-different-than-the-old-boss-but-still-really-bad...14 hours ago
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Psilocybin alters how rats balance risks and rewards, researchers find - Psilocybin influenced risk-reward behavior in rats, increasing caution during learning but reducing hesitation after learning. These effects varied by sex ...14 hours ago
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Sam Harris vs. Brian Greene on religion - Here physicist Brian Greene argues with Sam Harris about approaches to dispelling false beliefs, aka religion. Greene argues that simply acquainting people...15 hours ago
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Solar Probe Survives Record-Breaking Closest Ever Encounter With Sun - Astrophysicists now await a data transmission that will improve understanding of the sun's solar wind and the heat of its corona.15 hours ago
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Here’s Your Myers-Briggs Type’s Perfect New Year’s Eve - INTJ The sharp crack of the first firework. The flicker of a tea candle on a white tablecloth. A crisp bill left of the smooth marble of an upscale bar. Th...16 hours ago
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Newtonmas and the Gift of a Physics Background - This week, people all over the world celebrated the birth of someone whose universally attractive ideas spread around the globe. I’m talking, of course abo...16 hours ago
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How to Create a Vengefull Kurtain Rods Song - Everyone in my family agrees: The highlight of last summer's visit with our Australian cousins was recording a new Vengefull Kurtain Rods song, "Marsupial ...16 hours ago
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Emptying My Notebooks: Learning from the Failure of GUN CURIOUS - NOTE: I recently unpacked my hodgepodge of notebooks about gun culture to begin thinking about writing another book in 2025. Seeing John McPhee’s Tabula Ra...16 hours ago
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Prof. Hicks on the Enlightenment: The Age of Reason & Its Opposition, Objective Morality, Israel - Interviewed by Israel’s Harry Kaufmann: Related interview: “Rand, Kant, Israel v. Islamists, & Career integrity”—Stephen Hicks with Vinay Kolhatkar and Rog...16 hours ago
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Inequality From the Neolithic Era to the Bronze Age - Economic inequality appears to have been rare and transient among humans during the Neolithic period (that is, from about 11,000 to 5,000 years ago). But...17 hours ago
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Ranking Biden on Economic Policy: A Track Record of Failure - Congratulations to Joe Biden, albeit in a negative way. He has joined Richard Nixon and Herbert Hoover in having zero positive economic accomplishments. He...17 hours ago
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California passes ‘anti-snitch’ law to prevent the forced outing of LGBTQ+ students by teachers - California has taken one more step towards LGBTQ+ equality by passing a law that prevents schools from forcing teachers to out queer students to their pa...18 hours ago
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Idea Mining - One of my Christmas presents this year, given by our own Sarah Hoyt, was a book of fantasy writing prompts. Normally, I’m not much for using other people’s...18 hours ago
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When Speaking Truth to Power Becomes a Punishable Offense - The left’s favorite slogan, “Speak truth to power,” is just that. It is an empty, propagandist slogan increasingly turned into an ironic snare, consideri...18 hours ago
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More coordinated brainwashing from mainstream media - A recent message on X (formerly Twitter) has revealed yet another example of news organizations broadcasting precisely the same message, word-for-word...18 hours ago
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In the Lobby Lounge Café... - [image: IMG_0343] ... you can talk all day. But don't look for me there. I'm already gone.18 hours ago
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MAGA wars were predictable - “To the victor belong the spoils” is a proverbial phrase coined in 1828 by the American politician William L. Marcy. What he forgot to add was that the vic...19 hours ago
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Announcing two new members of our blogging team . . . - . . . Nick Hornby and David Roche! Just kidding. Really, though, these guys are great and should be blogging for us. Nick Hornby you know about. He’s the a...19 hours ago
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Announcing two new members of our blogging team . . . - . . . Nick Hornby and David Roche! Just kidding. Really, though, these guys are great and should be blogging for us. Nick Hornby you know about. He’s the a...19 hours ago
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2024, in 4 minutes - 2024 saw over 60 elections worldwide, many of which were marked with controversy. It was undoubtedly a divisive year both within and along borders. The war...19 hours ago
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Oooh Er, Missus! - I’m quaking, really I am. I am not obliged to respond to them, which is why they haven’t heard from me. Netflix hasn’t heard from [...]19 hours ago
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Our Lying Eyes: New Photo Shows Biden with Hunter ‘s Business Associates Despite Past Denials - “Lies.” That response was a mantra for President Joe Biden, who denied ever meeting or knowing about his son’s foreign…20 hours ago
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The Historical Significance and Preservation of the Cherokee Language - The distinctive culture and heritage of the Cherokee Nation are deeply interconnected with the heart of the Native American indigenous linguistic tapestr...21 hours ago
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Report: China Rapidly Builds Up Weapons And Psychological Warfare Operations - [image: Chinese army]China’s military buildup and cognitive warfare strategy are clear indications of its intent to defeat the U.S. and its allies by any m...21 hours ago
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China’s military rise: Comparative military spending in China and the US - Peter Robertson compares military spending between China and US: Estimates of China’s military spending relative to the US vary widely from around one quar...21 hours ago
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Seaton: About Last Saturday’s Unpleasantness - Hello everyone! It’s your humble humorist ceasing work on the Year in Review for a small housekeeping note. Several people have reached out to me after the...22 hours ago
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Weekend Knowledge Dump- December 27, 2024 - Knowledge to make your life better. If you have some free time, check out some of these links this weekend. Yes, Double Action Revolvers Are Still Viable...22 hours ago
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ProMarket in 2024 - [image: ProMarket in 2024] *ProMarket*’s writers review the topics that defined our coverage in 2024. Google.* Lots* of Google. The future of competition i...22 hours ago
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Speaking Humor to Power - Looking back on its 40-year long legacy, *Ghostbusters* remains a classic statement of the anti-authoritarian attitude.22 hours ago
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Being Blamed for Things - Throughout a great variety of misadventures, I have learned the assignment of fault is mankind’s rational thinking at its very lowest. If and when it lands...23 hours ago
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Tradition and Treachery - Kneeling is good for the soul. It lifts you up by making you, in stature, no more than a child.23 hours ago
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Back Issue #138 - Hypersuggestible people…can be induced to “remember” all sorts of fantastic things which are not even physically possible, much less grounded in actual eve...23 hours ago
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Tono-Bungay by H.G. Wells (1909) - This is a long novel narrated in the first person by 40-year-old George Ponderevo, recounting in a consciously ramshackle, digressive way, his boyhood and ...1 day ago
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The Future of Singapore - From humble beginnings to a global trading hub, Singapore has solidified itself as a key player in the region and beyond. This success story is one of ge...1 day ago
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Freedom with a Caveat - Does Uhuru, ‘freedom’ in Swahili, apply in the United States? It depends. It depends on how the First Amendment is interpreted; it depends on how cunning...1 day ago
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Theory of the Nonvoter, by Ted Rall - Nonvoters are the biggest (potential) voting bloc in American politics. In midterm, state and local elections, more eligible voters choose not to exercise ...1 day ago
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After Obama - In 2024, Barack Obama was on the ballot. The two Democratic presidential nominees, one of whom he ousted, was his former VP and the other had made herse...1 day ago
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End Of Year World Socialism Round-Up: Cuba, China, Venezuela - * For obvious reasons, our legacy media have very limited interest in reporting regularly on economic news from the various socialist/communist paradises a...1 day ago
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Ezra Klein's Conversion to Libertarianism Proceeds Apace - I look forward to seeing Ezra Klein’s upcoming book address the “stupidity and procedural crust” that defends the inefficient US health sector.1 day ago
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“False Alternatives in the Politics of Knowledge” - Just a reminder to anyone attending the APA Eastern in New York this January: the Molinari Society is hosting a session on “False Alternatives in the Polit...1 day ago
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What If Solutions That Worked in the Past No Longer Fix What's Broken? - *You see the irony here: the more successful the old solutions were, the greater our compulsion to cling to them even as they fail. * *Humans use inductiv...1 day ago
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The Big Wheels Have No Idea - This just about sums everything up: I means seriously, look at how much is packed in there! This is not just about Mike Mearls. This is about the fact that...1 day ago
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Christmas – New Year Vids and Links: 27 December 2024 - Leith and Damo Martin North and Tarric Brooker This woman makes plenty of valid points. It is about the US but in far too many ways it is about us too (H...1 day ago
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Pan de Jamón & Hallmark Movies: Embracing My Venezuelan-American Roots - I often felt disconnected from my Venezuelan heritage while growing up in the United States. But through my mother’s Christmas traditions, I’ve come to rea...2 days ago
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Slide Presentation–“Islamic Jew-Hatred: Its Role in Today’s Upsurge in Antisemitism,” Andrew G. Bostom, MD, MS; ZOA Conference, Tuesday, 12/24/24 - Link to pdf version of slides: ZOA 12.24.24-compressed2 days ago
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Happy Holidays! - Hello philosofriends! I know some of you are doing great — others, not so great. But I hope all of you are able to find at least a little beauty in the w...2 days ago
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A Memory – Christmas in the Barracks, 1978 - ( I wrote this memory of a barracks Christmas when I first started blogging, and expanded it for my memoir – from which this long reminiscence is pulled. I...3 days ago
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Review: The Drop - [image: The Drop (Harry Bosch, #15; Harry Bosch Universe, #24)]The Drop by Michael Connelly My rating: 5 of 5 stars Harry has to solve two mysteries all wh...3 days ago
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A Christmas Candle for the Hostages - It’s getting dark in Caracas, this Christmas Eve. Rocio San Miguel is staring out the window of her jail cell at the surrounding barrios of San Augustin. L...3 days ago
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Israel came late to American Jews - My mom died last month. Going through some of the personal items she left for me, I found this book. The Jews of America was the textbook that virtually al...3 days ago
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But Why Saladin? The West’s Low Standard Bar for Islam - The Stream We recently discussed the concept of Fake History in the context of Saladin (1137-1193), the Muslim hero who conquered Jerusalem from the Crusad...3 days ago
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Tractor Mouse - Pics or it didn’t happen right? I present to you “The Wages of Sin”… or at least nature’s punishment for not putting shit off the ground before it freezes ...3 days ago
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The Biggest Math Story of 2024 - [image: A picture representing the geometric langlands conjecture. Generated by Microsoft Copilot Designer. https://tse3.mm.bing.net/th?id=OIG4.rezMCUUDB2...3 days ago
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The ‘Overheating’ Myth: The Unpleasant Arithmetic of Putin’s War (The RUST model) - I have increasingly become frustrated by the focus on “overheating” of the Russian economy championed by many Western military and geopolitical analysts. T...4 days ago
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Cry the beloved country - The USA is quite unlike anywhere I've been. I imagined it a dull copy of Europe without the good things like beautiful buildings, ancient peoples and soc...4 days ago
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Realigning Standing with Substantive Due Process - Conservatives and liberals are quickly changing positions on a host of issues, now that there is a secure conservative majority at the Supreme Court. Examp...4 days ago
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Superman - W.J. Astore Truth, Justice, and the American Way The new “Superman” movie trailer has dropped, and it hit me in the feels. I grew up watching reruns of tho...5 days ago
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A tale of two columns, part 1 - In his final column for the New York Times, Paul Krugman talks about a change from when he started writing it in January 2000: "What strikes me, look...5 days ago
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Starfish for the god of war - A while back I came across this X post by @Paracelsus1092: I don't know if anyone knows the significance of starfish to ancient Mesoamericans, but I like...5 days ago
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John Staddon: "Grading and Moral Hazard: A Modest Proposal" - Interesting.Something's got to be done.5 days ago
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Reshaping the Global Landscape: How Will Trump’s Return Redefine Global Dynamics? - *Mideast Security and Policy Studies No. 210* *Introduction: *In the complex and often unpredictable realm of global politics, few political developments...5 days ago
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It is Freaking Cold and Prune Cake - It’s alarmingly cold right now but the squirrels are happy because Badger (the grumpy tuxedo I have) won’t eat cat food that’s fallen out of the main dish ...6 days ago
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They Just Won’t Leave the Kids Alone - TONY THOMAS DEC 21 2024Save Download PDF Melbourne University, sometimes billed as the Parkville Asylum, is ranked by The Times as top in Australia and 39...6 days ago
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This week in research #54 - Here's what caught my eye in research over the past week (which, it appears, was a very quiet week in the lead-up to Christmas): - Bietenbeck (open a...1 week ago
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Browncast: Hussein Ibish on Middle East - Another Browncast is up. You can listen on Libsyn, Apple, Spotify (and a variety of other platforms). Probably the easiest way to keep up the podcast since...1 week ago
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East Asian Historical Population Genetics Reviewed - A December 3, 2024 (open access) monograph published by the Cambridge University Press comprehensively reviews the historical population genetics of East...1 week ago
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This Fall in Baseball - As the neighborhood bar played “New York, New York” (they do this for every Yankees win), the air felt electric. This was the team we came to watch, and w...1 week ago
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Anniversary & loose ends - Twelve years of blogging, and our namesake film is on TV. Happy holidays to everyone!1 week ago
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Quick note on the US beating the UK at growth - I wrote hurriedly last week about how US growth outperformance cannot all be explained by tech. Here is an even more hurried analysis using KLEMS data to d...1 week ago
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The Tick Had the Perfect Action-Packed Take on Santa 30 Years Before Red One - They're sugar plums, Arthur! And they're DANCING IN MY HEAD! The post The Tick Had the Perfect Action-Packed Take on Santa 30 Years Before Red ...1 week ago
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Power laws, earthquakes, and war - On Boxing Day (December 26) 2004, a tsunami resulting from a 9.0+ magnitude earthquake killed about 250,000 people around the Indian Ocean. This was one of...1 week ago
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The best books I read in 2024 - The blog has been on hiatus for a bit due to a press of other responsibilities, but of course I haven’t stopped reading. These were the most memorable book...1 week ago
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Gilson on philosophy and its history - You might suppose from the title of Etienne Gilson’s *The Unity of Philosophical Experience* that it is a book about philosophy in general. And ultimate...1 week ago
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The Secret To Better Habits In 2025 - Here we are…at the halfway point of the 2020s. The first half seems like it was both yesterday and forever ago, doesn’t it? Tempus fugit. That’s what the ...1 week ago
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Ukraine ‘Outraged’ at Yemen Grain Shipment From Occupied Crimea - This article is the result of a joint investigation by Bellingcat and Lloyd’s List. Ukraine has said it is “outraged” after a Russian-flagged vessel surr...1 week ago
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After twelve years of writing about bitcoin, here's how my thinking has changed - What follows is an essay on how my thinking on bitcoin has changed since I began to write on the topic starting with my first post in October 2012. Since...1 week ago
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Five Bushcraft Tools, Considerations: A Joe Fox Response Discussion - A video discussion about some of the considerations that should go into considerations of what tools are going to work best for you, in your environment, i...1 week ago
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Pagan Christmas, Again. - Every year, without fail, we find endless articles, memes and claims on social media about the supposed “pagan origins” of Christmas. As with Halloween a...1 week ago
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What Al-Jolani’s Past Can Reveal About Syria’s Future - Spectator, 13/12 In late February 2012 I was travelling through Syria’s Idleb province. I stayed for a few days in a town called Binnish, not far from the ...1 week ago
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Assisted dying: what we might learn from experience of other controversial decisions in medicine - Dominic Wilkinson, University of Oxford Following the second reading (and parliamentary support) of Labour MP Kim Leadbetter’s terminally ill adults (end...2 weeks ago
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Hot Death Valley Days: Don’t Trust Those Temperatures - AP photo/ Ty O’Neil. Summary In our continuing examination of the world record hottest temperature of 134 deg. F recorded at Greenland Ranch (now Death Val...2 weeks ago
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Mime, misdirection and pyramid of code - The Gregorian revolution gave rise to a form of organisation that was gradually stamped out all over the Western world and then to its followers. Constitut...2 weeks ago
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SCSS#3, 9 December 2024: Russia End State – “Assad Deposed: Implications for Russia?” - This is a summary of the discussion at the latest of the current series of online Strategic Competition Seminar Series (SCSS) webinars held on 9 December 2...2 weeks ago
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‘An order in respect of Freemasons and Jews’ - The Holocaust, the reason Freemasonry became a ‘secret’ order – World War 2 (1939-1945). By Peter Albert Dickens Incorrectly understood by many is the idea...2 weeks ago
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The Google Willow thing - Yesterday I arrived in Santa Clara for the Q2B (Quantum 2 Business) conference, which starts this morning, and where I’ll be speaking Thursday on “Quantum ...2 weeks ago
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The Google Willow thing - Yesterday I arrived in Santa Clara for the Q2B (Quantum 2 Business) conference, which starts this morning, and where I’ll be speaking Thursday on “Quantum ...2 weeks ago
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Repairing the public sphere - In 1968 Garrett Hardin wrote an essay (pdf), The tragedy of the commons, in which he argued that common ownership of assets such as land or fishing waters ...2 weeks ago
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The Only Jew in the Room - After 24 years in the Israel Defense Forces, much of it focused on the West Bank and Gaza, Lt. Col. (ret.) Avi Shalev, a Jew, made the unique decision in h...2 weeks ago
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Books 2024 - You might also be interested in my booklists from from 2014, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022, and 2023. Undersea Victory In the Shadow of Man ...2 weeks ago
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Devant la guerre: On E. H. Carr's "The twenty years' crisis 1919-39" - There is no better time than now to read E. H. Carr’s *The twenty years’ crisis 1919 39*. It could have been written last month. The similarities of the ...2 weeks ago
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Teleoformalism VS. The Welfare State - A year ago I presented a theory of justice I called teleoformalism. “Teleoformalism” was initially intended to be only the name for the theory of justice b...2 weeks ago
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Latest from Germany - As Tam has stated numerous times, Europe has the ability to go from "friendly to jackboots" in about .5 seconds. Germany might be close to that cusp again ...3 weeks ago
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Reflections on the Conclusion of a Military Career - You’re all trapped here at my retirement ceremony and now I’m going to inflict some last scraps of wisdom on you.3 weeks ago
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Wind and Solar Can’t Support the Grid - by Planning Engineer (Russ Schussler) In October of 2025, the isolated small city of Broken Hill in New South Wales, Australia with a 36 MW load (includ...3 weeks ago
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The PIE homeland controversy: December 2024 open thread - It seems like we're getting close to the moment when Iosif Lazaridis has to finally admit that the Proto-Indo-European (PIE) homeland was located in Easter...3 weeks ago
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Worsening Spiral of Hate - Worsening Spiral of Hate speech: Demonization of Religious Minorities Ram Puniyani RSS-BJP and its affiliates take every opportunity to deepen the demoniza...4 weeks ago
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Institutional Economics on Bluesky - I have a Bluesky account you may wish to follow. Also a reminder to subscribe to my Substack newsletter if you have not already done so. The back-end of th...4 weeks ago
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Where are the young people who are not at university? - Earlier this month I wrote a post showing that higher education enrolments at age 19 years, and the domestic participation rate at age 19, were down in 202...4 weeks ago
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US TO THY SERVICE… - When I was a kid, my grandfather always said grace over the big meals. He used that somber, “prayer tone” reserved for preachers and deacons. And he utter...4 weeks ago
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McCarthyism: Another jaunt to Old Blighty - Marks and Co, an antiquarian book seller in London, played a starring role in Helene Hanff's 1970 best seller *84 Charing Cross Road*. In her follow-up b...4 weeks ago
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Raymond Ibrahim re-launches YouTube Channel (VIDEO) - *In a witty and dynamic 5-minute intro, Islam scholar and critic, and respected political analyst, philosopher and raconteur, Raymond Ibrahim today annou...5 weeks ago
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My submission re the Online Safety Amendment Bill - TO: Committee Secretary Senate Standing Committees on Environment and Communications PO Box 6100 Parliament House Canberra ACT 2600 FROM: Dr Russell ...5 weeks ago
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The “Public Secret” Dossier: Revelations about the MSM from the Al Durah Affair - This text was first posted July 10, 2008, but much of it is missing there. I will clean this text (with formatting) but in the meantime, I publish it here ...5 weeks ago
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12 Years of Henry the Young King Blog! - 12 years ago today I published the first post on Henry the Young King blog. Using the occasion, I would like to say big thank you to all those, who suppo...1 month ago
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Japan’s PM ‘runs’ to Trump, Ishiba aims for a meeting in November - Adnkronos International, Rome(TNS) During the phone call that lasted about five minutes, Ishiba and Trump – Kyodo reports again – did not talk about the ...1 month ago
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Quick note - Just a quick reminder to all you MilSF authors out there: Reticle: A Crosshair or aiming device. Reticule: A small purse. I swear, Microsoft Word must have...1 month ago
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Republican Debates on China: A Political Compass - *MANY HAVE TRIED* to pin Trump to Heritage’s “Project 2025.” The Trump campaign has not only refused to endorse Project 2025—they have refused to endorse a...1 month ago
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Biden-Harris policies and their consequences were no surprise to those paying attention - Milton Friedman used to advise researchers to focus on large policy changes rather than attempting to separate a small change’s signal from the noise. In...1 month ago
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Advocacy Journalism Has Been a Problem for Ages: Looking Back at Bosnia - By Kyle Orton (@KyleWOrton) on October 26, 2024 Read the article over at Substack.2 months ago
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The West is sleepwalking into Trudeau’s woke nightmare - Justin Trudeau is creating a new arm of the state with sweeping powers aimed at criminalising opinions deemed ‘unacceptable’ by progressives For seven days...2 months ago
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About Simone and Malcolm Collins’ Smear Campaign Against Me - If you’re interested at all in pronatalism, you’re familiar with Simone and Malcolm Collins, the pronatal Silicon Valley investors-turned-Pennsylvania-pr...2 months ago
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Comfort - I had a post-doc. fellowship at Stanford. (“Post-doctoral fellowship” is code for welfare for people with doctorates.) It carried few obligations. I had to...2 months ago
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Utilizing Religion as a Foreign Policy Tool - Introduction Prior to entering the great power competition (GPC) with China and Russia, the United States was embroiled in the Global War on Terror (GWOT)...2 months ago
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Ribbonfarm is Retiring - After several years of keeping it going in semi-retired, keep-the-lights-on (KTLO) mode, I’ve decided to officially fully retire this blog. The ribbonfarm....2 months ago
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Is This Too Cryptic? - Now the physicists know what it was like to be an economist in 1978. Click here to comment or read others’ comments.2 months ago
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Podcast Review of “Avoidant” - I’ve been trying out AI assistance in marketing. This is an excellent example of what you can do, and it’s amazingly good at bringing out the value of th...2 months ago
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#276 – Qing 18: Kangxi Gets Personal - The Kangxi Emperor of Great Qing squares off again Galdan Khan of the Dzungar Khanate in the sociopolitical-religio-military showdown of the late 17th cent...2 months ago
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(WATCH) NATO - The US is one of 32 nations belonging to the North Atlantic Treaty Organization or NATO. The alliance is 75 years old this year. Because of the Russia-Uk...2 months ago
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This Year's (2024) Textbook-free Human Origins and Evolution - I’m still teaching APG 201 Human Origins and Evolution to an auditorium of 120 students every Fall semester. Unlike what students do at other universitie...2 months ago
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Romusha Adalah: Mengungkap Sejarah dan Peran Penting Para Pekerja Paksa di Indonesia - Romusha adalah istilah yang digunakan untuk menggambarkan para pekerja paksa yang dipekerjakan oleh pemerintah kolonial Jepang selama Perang Dunia II di ...3 months ago
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Tips For Booking Your Khasab Dhow Cruise Experience - Booking a dhow cruise in Khasab promises an unforgettable adventure, but ensuring you get the most out of your experience requires careful planning. From c...3 months ago
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A Farewelll - I have been writing this column, off and on, mostly on, for–dear God, can it be nearly thirty years? Yet nothing lasts forever, neither columns nor columni...3 months ago
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A Farewelll - I have been writing this column, off and on, mostly on, for–dear God, can it be nearly thirty years? Yet nothing lasts forever, neither columns nor columni...3 months ago
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China has much to teach us. John Roberts does not. - So, I don’t really write here any more. I write at drafts.interfluidity.com instead. Please follow that feed or subscribe by e-mail. I do still offer perio...3 months ago
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The Platform of the King - As Nate Winchester observes, George R. R. Martin ‘famously said something about wanting to know Aragorn’s tax policy’. Evidently Martin thinks this was one...3 months ago
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A long strange trip - For readers who don’t already know this, my new blog is over at Substack: scottsumner.substack.com This will be my final Money Illusion post. The blog bega...3 months ago
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The Obscenity of Banning Books - Granting governments the ability to violate intellectual freedom by banning books from schools doesn’t help or protect anyone. It is an obscene way of st...4 months ago
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Interactive PCA of Vector Embeddings - Principal component analysis is a way to summarize as much of the variation in many-dimensional data as you can, using fewer dimensions. For example, a gen...4 months ago
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Get Started With Web Hosting Quickly And Easily - It may seem daunting or downright impossible to find a suitable web host, but more often than not, a little research can help you find an answer quickly! A...4 months ago
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Dear Friends - Dear Friends: Ten years after I started this blog, circumstances are making it impossible for me to continue with it. So I am going to suspend it, at lea...4 months ago
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Sanity Fair - *"Antifascist" demonstration Portland, Oregon. August 17, 2019. * The two sides squared off across a field, defined by police cordons at each end, like dis...4 months ago
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WRESTLING WITH AMERICA’S DEMONS – AND HIS OWN - This essay, on the significance of James Baldwin, was published in the Observer on 28 July 2024 under the headline “James Baldwin taught us that identities...4 months ago
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Government Class Gonna Be LIT! (plus a coincidence) - The last time I taught US History was in spring 2017, and it was the shit. Trump had just won and as my readers know, I live and teach in deepest of blue b...5 months ago
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The Deep-State Strikes Back - Biden is out. Kamala is in. Democracy and laws be damned. Biden through Saturday night was insisting he would stay in the presidential race to the end su...5 months ago
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Thoughts and Details on the Fiscal Theory of the Price Level - The Fiscal Theory of the Price Level has been percolating among monetary theorists for over three decades: Eric Leeper being the first to offer a formaliza...5 months ago
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Men today are not real men (and the same goes for women) - There’s a man in my parish who, from the outside, looks like a typical Catholic dad: slightly balding, genial, pleasant-mannered, with plenty of kids. But ...5 months ago
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Why Economists Should Embrace Forecasting Tournaments - Forecasting failures: Lessons from the 19th century to modern economics The post Why Economists Should Embrace Forecasting Tournaments appeared first on ...5 months ago
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The ANES at 75: What have we learned from the American National Election Studies? - One of the early discoveries of the founders of the American National Election Studies (ANES) was that psychological attachments to parties themselves ar...5 months ago
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A Better Stablecoin on a Perp DEX - Creating a stablecoin position on a perp exchange is hard, but it should be easy. It not only caters to demand, but it also adds liquidity to perp marke...6 months ago
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ABC’s Sarah L’Estrange defends paedophile fantasy comic - ABC journalist Sarah L'Estrange came out in defence of Maia Kobabe's "Gender Queer", even though she admitted that it may contain images of paedophilia. ...7 months ago
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Sitzkrieg? - Several People have inquired why I have not written a column for TR in some time. Let me assure them I am in good health and face no lack of material as o...7 months ago
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Information Processing (this blog) has moved to Substack! - Thanks to Google and Blogspot for many happy years hosting this blog. However, Google has gradually stopped supporting this platform.The engineers at Subst...7 months ago
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Information Processing (this blog) has moved to Substack! - Thanks to Google and Blogspot for many happy years hosting this blog. However, Google has gradually stopped supporting this platform.The engineers at Subst...7 months ago
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A Few Things We Don’t Quite Get About the Levant - (First Draft of the Foreword to Pierre Zalloua’s forthcoming book. For comments.) Europa was the daughter of Agenor, king of Tyre Some people believe tha...7 months ago
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How to Conquer Your Biggest Fear - What is your biggest fear? What would it mean if you could overcome that fear, once and for all? In this article, I'm going to help you do exactly that b...7 months ago
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Let’s just defund the UN and leave it immediately - Hidden deep below the headquarters of the United Nations’ aid agency for Palestinians here is a Hamas complex with rows of computer servers that Israel’s...10 months ago
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Speaking trip this April - I'm speaking at Libertycon in Tbilisi on April 20th, will probably either go or come via London. Anyone interested in a talk? I'll probably be in Europe ...10 months ago
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My wish list for 2024: Hormonal inputs into perception of human skin color by men and women - Subjects identify the face on the left as female and the face on the right as male. The only difference is the lightness of the skin. Richard Russell, ...11 months ago
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Tools for Thinking About Censorship - “Was it a government action, or did they do it themselves because of pressure?” This is inevitably among our first questions when news breaks that any expr...11 months ago
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Milton Friedman: The last conservative or the first welfare state classical liberal? - When Milton Friedman died in 2006 I wrote a blog post crediting him as an ‘enormous influence on my life’. I said back then that although few people call t...1 year ago
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War in Ukraine VI: Adding Economic Power to the Attrition Model - In the previous post of the series, I promised to show how both the Economic Power and Casualties Rates hypotheses can be combined within the same computat...1 year ago
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Hello world! - Welcome to WordPress. This is your first post. Edit or delete it, then start writing!1 year ago
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British Jews are living under the shadow of fear: Whatever happens in Israel and Palestine, nothing excuses bigoted and criminal behaviour in the UK - By Khadija Khan The increase in anti-Semitic incidents following Hamas’s barbaric attack on Israeli civilians on October 7 is abhorrent – but regrettably...1 year ago
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Who Can File An Ethics Complaint Against A Realtor – Your Shield Against Unethical Realtors - Real estate transactions are pivotal moments in our lives, often involving significant financial and emotional investments. When ethics are compromised ...1 year ago
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Morris dancers drop ‘men’ from name to be trans inclusive … but still exclude women - Brighton’s male Morris dancers have dropped the word ‘‘men’’ from their decades-old name to avoid offending trans and non-binary people. The troupe is chan...1 year ago
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ฝาก10 รับ 100 ใหม่ล่าสุด โปรคุณภาพ ที่คนงบน้อย ห้ามพลาด! - เปลี่ยนเงินทุน 10 บาท ให้เป็นโอกาสลุ้นเงินรางวัลจากเกมพ … ฝาก10 รับ 100 ใหม่ล่าสุด โปรคุณภาพ ที่คนงบน้อย ห้ามพลาด! Read More »1 year ago
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Recent work - The New Labor Antitrust, SSRN The Trump Indictment and America’s Political Order, Project Syndicate, June 14, 2023 The Revised Merger Guidelines Will Resto...1 year ago
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ASHTON PARKS’ DIRTY “SNACKS” ADDICTION - Snacks, aka “Bread” or “The Louisiana Succubus”, is infamous within the sector.… The post ASHTON PARKS’ DIRTY “SNACKS” ADDICTION appeared first on TheRa...1 year ago
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New Yorkers are Getting What They Deserve - They are paying the just tax for willful self-enstupidation. Vote Democrat, get more crime. The morally decent should leave NYC, and indeed every Democrat-...1 year ago
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"Realist Jurisprudence: Selected Essays" - A Spanish translation by Dr. Francisco M. Mora-Sifuentes of eight of my essays on realist jurisprudence and related topics (with a new preface by me and an...1 year ago
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A pyramid scheme of misery - Róisín Michaux at The Critic on the mothers who affirm their children's trans identities: I’ve spent the last couple of years lurking on their online fora....1 year ago
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Biden’s Labor Initiatives and Organizers’ Challenges - Is Joe Biden, as he claims, the best friend workers have had in the White House either ever or since Franklin Delano Roosevelt? We could debate that all d...1 year ago
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Thatcherism is dead: Thatcherism lives - Thatcherism is dead. It has ceased to be. It has expired and gone to meet its maker. It has kicked the bucket, shuffled off this mortal coil and joined the...1 year ago
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A Crusader’s Mom - Something a bit different. Early crusaders were volunteers, who took vows to go on a crusade, rather than members of a professional army. As a result, they...1 year ago
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U.S. Openly Militarizes Space - The media have noticed that the new USSF Doctrine is more focused on aligning space activity with the twelve principles of warfare as a whole The post U....1 year ago
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好きな人と付き合って結婚、幸せな家庭を気づくためのノウハウ - 彼と付き合って一年が過ぎ、より実りのある二年目を過ごすには 彼と付き合って、一年も経つとだいたいどんな人となり […]1 year ago
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Weird, Queer Mood; Uganda, Ugandans on the World Bank - The World Bank released a statement. To dear Uganda; sorry, but our values and the values enshrined in the Anti-Homosexuality Act, 2023 are at war. W...1 year ago
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Rochester gets burned over - Fenster writes: The burned over district: The term “burned-over district” refers to the western and central regions of New York State in the early 19th cen...1 year ago
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Lionising the lionesses - Football has kept me sane during a difficult part of my life. There have been weeks in the past two years when the only place I’ve left my home to visit ha...1 year ago
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A Fond Farewell to Political Violence @ A Glance - Dear Readers, After eleven incredible years, we have made the difficult decision to close the doors of Political…1 year ago
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Russia: Defend Boris Kagarlitsky! - News of Kagarlitsky's arrest has sparked anger and empathy among a wide range of activists. People may perish, but ideas do not, and Kagarlitsky has done...1 year ago
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"Pre-Galilean" Foolishness - I am currently reading *The Master and His Emissary*, which appears to be an excellent book. ("Appears" because I don't know the neuroscience literature...1 year ago
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The persistence of belief and certainty - Long thought. Don’t say you had no warning. The explicitly secular perspective is that there is no proof of a spiritual layer to human experience, Continue...1 year ago
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Draco Layer Four: The Anagogic or Mystical Sense - Here be dragons. And doves. Human beings long for transcendence. Such longing is, for the world, always out of fashion because, of course, it is not a long...1 year ago
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UN Special Rapporteur Releases Guantánamo Report - On June 26, United Nations Special Rapporteur on Human Rights and Counter-Terrorism Fionnuala Ní Aoláin released her report following a technical visit ...1 year ago
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Your own relaxing retreat: tips for designing a dream backyard escape - There’s nothing quite like having a peaceful and relaxing outdoor space to unwind and escape the stresses of everyday life. And what better way to achieve ...1 year ago
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Conversations With Cabbies - Many a foreign correspondent, sent to an obscure country of which he knows nothing but which has suddenly drawn the world’s attention to itself by a terrib...1 year ago
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Moving to Substack - Hi all, this is a pointer to direct you over to Substack. I’m moving the Econ Growth Blog over there, with the hopes of creating a little more interactio...1 year ago
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France’s fertility fall began long ago, before the Revolution. Was dechristianization to blame? - Why do fertility rates fall? All over the world, in rich countries, in middle-income countries, and in poor countries, fertility rates are falling below ...1 year ago
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Summary of Why We Disagree About Inequality: Social Justice vs. Social Order - The post Summary of Why We Disagree About Inequality: Social Justice vs. Social Order appeared first on Heterodox Academy.1 year ago
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A Few Quick Announcements - By James As I wrote a couple of years ago, I don’t post here anymore. I just have a couple of updates for people who subscribe and may be interested in my ...1 year ago
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Tucker Carlson’s War on Official Narratives. Fired from Fox News. What’s Next? - Theories abound for why Tucker Carlson was fired from Fox News. The bottom line: he's a truth-teller on the issues that count, and was operating in a media...1 year ago
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Democracy Bottom-Up: Building a Dialogue between Civil Society and Politicians - Warsaw Summit 1-2 June Forum Ruchu Europejskiego, European Movement International, Evolution Institute, and Collegium Civitas Place: Collegium Civitas, Pal...1 year ago
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What Whitaker wants us to know about Mad in America - Read the post here on my Substack newsletter: https://awaisaftab.substack.com/p/what-whitaker-wants-us-to-know-about1 year ago
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Breaking my Flag - For those who missed the previous announcements, please read the previous posts for the details, but after 18 2/3 years here, I will no longer be posti...1 year ago
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March Update: Mediation Ongoing, Temperature Tipping Point Already Exceeded - Thanks to everyone who has enquired about the outcome of the Administrative Appeals Tribunal hearing with John Abbot versus the Bureau of Meteorology fir...1 year ago
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The Erdmann Housing Tracker - For my latest work, please see my new substack newsletter: The Erdmann Housing Tracker1 year ago
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Episode 2045 Scott Adams: Silicon Valley Bank Prediction, Trump Dominance, & Race Relations Reframed - Content: Bill Maher reframes DeSantis out of 2024 SVB, Silicon Valley Bank situation Mark Cuban on FDIC 250,000 protection limit USA Today compares Maine...1 year ago
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Hope Springs Eternal... - In preparation for a return to active blogging I have torn down this server to the root and reinstalled everything clean. I am hoping the errors and probl...1 year ago
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The Debt Ceiling: An Economist's Analysis - Economics Professor Cameron Harwick explains government debt, the debt ceiling, and what it means when we hit it.1 year ago
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Wrapping things up here - I thought I should mention to any long-time readers that I am going to be letting this domain name lapse at the end of the month. I notice that certain p...1 year ago
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Understanding the Rise of Transgender Identities - The social dynamics of girls’ and women’s friendship groups, including a desire to fit in and avoid conflict, may make them more susceptible to social cont...1 year ago
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AI Will Kill Literature, and AI Will Resurrect It - The literary novel, as far as genres go, is not that old: novels have existed in our culture for about three hundred years. If you had a time machine, you ...1 year ago
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Cyber Warfare Is Getting Real: The risk of escalation from cyberattacks has never been greater—or the pursuit of peace more complicated - My piece in Wired The post Cyber Warfare Is Getting Real: The risk of escalation from cyberattacks has never been greater—or the pursuit of peace more co...2 years ago
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Subscribe to my Substack - For most intents and purposes, this blog is dead. Comments are still permitted and errors will be corrected if pointed out. Nevertheless, all new writing w...2 years ago
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Blog Migration! - Birds migrate, butterflies migrate, whales migrate, and this blog is migrating! It's being moved over from Blogger to Substack. The URL is currently http...2 years ago
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How Eric Hobsbawm anticipated Synthetic Marx - I have to admit that I expected some pushback against the thesis of my paper (co-authored with Michael Makovi) “The Mainstreaming of Marx: Measuring the ...2 years ago
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Have the Baby Boomers Ruined Society? - Introduction.The author is a young energetic historian who has entertaining and insightful ideas. His exuberance on occasion leads him astray, he can be to...2 years ago
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Electric Agora shutting down, new media venture launching soon - Today we are shutting down all activities for The Electric Agora and will soon be archiving the site. The social media accounts for The Electric Agora were...2 years ago
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Public Policy for Equality and Opportunity: Evidence-based and Ethically Grounded - Inequality erodes opportunity, and limited opportunity exacerbates inequality. This vicious intergenerational cycle has brought inclusive growth into quest...2 years ago
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As Good As A Rest, They Said - Or, The Cause Of All The Banging And Salty Epithets. After close to sixteen years, this blog has a new home. Come see. Bring cake.2 years ago
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Another one bites the dust. - I don’t usually cover the events of the day, because one loses track of the big picture. The events of the day only reveal their meaning when viewed months...2 years ago
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Character Design, Pt 8: Designing Alternatives (Layer Comps) - Phew, it has been a busy couple of months, but I’ve got a quick chance to dive back into this guy. He’s getting close to finished, the colors and general ...2 years ago
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Rationalizing the Discussion on Migration and Policy - |Peter Boettke| Michael Clemens is one of the most powerful voices in the economics profession for the free flow of people throughout the world. He brings ...2 years ago
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สล็อต777คาสิโนออนไลน์ alphabet เข้ามาลองก่อนค่อยว่าไม่ดี - ทำรายการฝากเงินไม่มีขั้นต่ำ เว็บเดิมพันในปัจจุบันนั้นมีมากมายเต็มไปหมด ทุกท่านที่ต้องการร่วมสนุกสามารถเลือกเล่นเลือกลงทุนได้อย่างอิสระเต็มที่ได้เลย แต่...2 years ago
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10 Predictions for the next 5 to 10 years - A friend asked what the big trends in American society over the next five to ten years would be. This is a fun time frame to think about, because you don’t...2 years ago
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Getting Down To Basics with - Bar Mitzvah Food Catering – Tips For Budget-Conscious Caterers For lots of, bar mitzvah food catering is a high-ticket item. […] The post Getting Down To...2 years ago
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CSPI is Moving To Substack - A couple of months ago, I wrote about why, if you’re a writer, you should be on Substack. At the same time, CSPI was publishing all of its material on ou...2 years ago
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The Problem with Research on Microaggressions - Commentary: Some of the key claims made in microaggression research are backed by weak evidence.2 years ago
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He used to edit political stories at the Chicago Tribune. Now he says the press is failing our democracy. - "You don’t get a lot of complaints if you just write down what everyone says and leave it at that." The post He used to edit political stories at the Chi...2 years ago
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Who Cares About Diversity? - All across the Academy, schools are requiring “Diversity Statements” as a condition for new hires. Everyone has to submit a statement explaining how they a...2 years ago
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Moving to Substack . . . - The times, they are a changin'. Going forward, I will primarily be blogging on Substack: https://stevewinkler.substack.com. Bryan Caplan, who else, convin...2 years ago
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My Final Post - For various reasons, I have decided to quit blogging. For one thing, my numbers are down to a level that it doesn’t seem worth it to continue, though let m...2 years ago
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AdSense became unusable - For several months, I have been getting direct censorship requests from Google AdSense. In recent days, the frequency increased to "several articles to be ...2 years ago
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The 1/N portfolio versus the optimal strategy: Does a simple heuristic outperform? - Gerd Gigerenzer is fond of telling a story about Harry Markowitz, modern portfolio design pioneer and winner of the 1990 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic...2 years ago
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RIP, Amy's Blog: 1997 to 2021 - I have two intense books I'm completing, and I've been increasingly unable to put the effort into blogging that I have done for years...2 years ago
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Filtering For Truth In The Age Of Google - Over the years, I’ve met several individuals of immense capacity for logical deduction, genuinely impressive education, and sky-high IQ (we’re talking well...3 years ago
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The shameful silence on the Waukesha massacre - Is silence still violence? If it is, then a whole lot of people, from the Hollywood set to the virtue-signalling left, are guilty of some serious violenc...3 years ago
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Customer Agent Rendering - A customer representative or perhaps buyer broker is the strategy of a brokerage or property broker symbolizing a client in an financial commitment transac...3 years ago
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The blog has moved - It is now on substack (In My Tribe). There is still no charge to read it. I am trying to maintain the feel of this blog, including the daily scheduled post...3 years ago
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Good Chart Checklist - Note: this was prepared for my ECON 3403 students, and is a list of all of the mistakes I commonly see in student charts. Please add your suggestions for t...3 years ago
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Hotel Bar Sessions, Ep 31: Whose History? - The HBS hosts sit down with Dr. Charles McKinney, Jr. to talk about whose history is (and isn't) being taught. Following on the heels of a recent and ...3 years ago
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Thank You - [image: 11032021Thanks1] Thank you for supporting my work. As you know, my work is vital, difficult, and sometimes – well, in wars, dangerous. There ...3 years ago
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Thank You - [image: 11032021Thanks1] Thank you for supporting my work. As you know, my work is vital, difficult, and sometimes – well, in wars, dangerous. There ...3 years ago
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The Medieval Origins of Halloween Traditions - We’ve been knee-deep in pumpkin spice for weeks, now, which means (1) Starbucks may be part of a secret cabal intent on world domination through tasty me...3 years ago
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Angelo Codevilla on changes in the educational landscape - Angelo Codevilla (circa 2010) whereas within living memory school nurses could not administer an aspirin to a child without the parents’ consent, the peopl...3 years ago
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What does Lisa Birnbach say about preppy cars? - I happen to have a copy of The Official Preppy Handbook, and it seems that preppy cars barely changed at all since the book was written in 1980. That’s 41 ...3 years ago
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18 Theses on Poetry - The principal purpose of poetry is to lay bare the hidden powers of the language in which it is written. These powers are found both at the level of the ph...3 years ago
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Pourquoi le COVID-19 est là pour de bon, et pourquoi vous ne devriez pas vous en inquiéter - [Cet article est une traduction d’un billet de blog que j’ai publié en anglais sur le site de CSPI le 17 août. La traduction a été réalisée conjointement...3 years ago
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Dr. John McAdams - *October 26th, 1945 - April 15th, 2021* Dr. John Charles McAdams passed away on Thursday, April 15th, 2021, at the age of 75. He was a devoted husband, ...3 years ago
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health care - These two graphs really say it all: A few years ago I got a freak knee infection that landed me in the hospital. The experience was so smooth, non-st...3 years ago
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A new legend - Unauthorized is very, very pleased to announce that MADE BY JIMBOB has joined the intellectual outlaws of the Internet. Look for his videos on the Made b...3 years ago
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Point of.No Return has moved! - The new address is www.jewishrefugees.org.uk. See you there!3 years ago
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People Left Cities for Rural Zoom Towns. How Does That Impact Wildfire Risk? - Zoom towns with high wildfire risk are also seeing the fastest growth in home prices, and therefore the fastest increase in wildfire exposure3 years ago
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A handy guide to getting pinged - The NHS App could be expanded to help us make ‘informed decisions’ in all kinds of everyday scenarios. AI algorithms would replace the flawed notion of ‘wo...3 years ago
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The Sad, Discordant Ballad of Husham al-Hashimi - The man who pulled the trigger on Husham al-Hashimi—by first misfiring an assault rifle and then pulling out his pistol to shoot the victim at point-blank ...3 years ago
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IEA World Congress 2021 - A few words on the International Economics’ Association online World Congress, July 2-6, on the theme “Equity, Sustainability and Prosperity in a Fractured...3 years ago
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Men Out of Focus: Cold War Scientists or Sixties Scientists? (Marko responds to Josh) - Josh’s post got me thinking about my disinclination to more directly acknowledge the connection between the Cold War and Soviet masculinity – esp. given th...3 years ago
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Money “Front & Center” - This is a note to my long time readers that I have earlier this year moved my blogging to Substack. At Substack, posts are called newsletters, and so no on...3 years ago
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Money “Front & Center” - This is a note to my long time readers that I have earlier this year moved my blogging to Substack. At Substack, posts are called newsletters, and so no on...3 years ago
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The advantages of working with a qualified exhibition stand builder - When looking for constructing services providers construction in all exhibitions in Europe, the primary is to get a competent exhibition stand builder pr...3 years ago
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Humiliation: The Greatest Gift Our Adversaries Have For America - The country of slut and body shaming is about to learn the positive influence of shame. The only question will be, will we learn shame’s lessons? America ...3 years ago
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the future - Hey gang, I’m excited to say that Substack approached me recently and made an attractive financial offer for me to blog over there. Given that I’ve been ou...3 years ago
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Finito Sic Semper Tyrannis - We are done here. turcopolier.com is working now. I have cancelled all guest author ships here. RSS is enabled on the new blog. Comments will no longer be ...3 years ago
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‘Feel Our Pain,’ Politicians Demand - Congress is increasingly not a place where the average member partakes in what’s generally understood as legislative activity, but rather engages in a va...3 years ago
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The Tragic Effect of the Left’s One-Dimensional World View on the Multi-Dimensional World - I recommend the documentary “What Killed Michael Brown?” by historian Shelby Steele. Two things about it struck me. 1) Steele’s term “Poetic Truth” sounds ...3 years ago
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Introducing Astral Codex Ten - Thanks for bearing with me the past few months. My new blog is at https://astralcodexten.substack.com/. I’ll try to have a less unwieldy domain name workin...3 years ago
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We lost. Now what? - I was preparing this post, anticipating that nothing would happen on January 6, that the certification of Biden would go forward with minor bluster and maj...3 years ago
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‘Test & Trace’ is a mirage - Lockdown II thoughts: Day 1 Opposition politicians have been banging on about the need for a ‘working’ Test & Trace system even more loudly than the govern...4 years ago
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Review of Rod Dreher’s “Live Not By Lies” - Two years ago, when reviewing “The Benedict Option”, I wrote, “Almost all Dreher’s critics accuse him of crying wolf or being a Chicken Little at best … Me...4 years ago
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A Letter to TAI’s Subscribers and Readers - Dear TAI readers,Due primarily to financing difficulties, The American Interest is taking a hiatus from publishing new material.We are glad that there is...4 years ago
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Biotin for hair: what can this vitamin do to hair? - What is this vitamin? How does it act on the wires? Does it make hair grow faster? For more insights jump to: best biotin shampoo We know that our hair l...4 years ago
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Humanity’s second “cradle” in Southeast Asia - Pleistocene Sundaland This week on The Insight (Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Stitcher, and Google Podcasts) Razib and Spencer talk about a topic which they hav...4 years ago
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The spin on the spin - There's been something of a triumph of spin on the EU's MFF share-out. Oh I don't mean the headlines, which we summarised last week, but the rationale. Spa...4 years ago
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The social justice steamroller: a pervasive and profound attack on citizenship - Political scientists Eric Kaufman and Matt Goodwin, in a recent online dialogue, discussed how centre-right parties have not found a language to deal with ...4 years ago
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Migrating the blog - It should be back soon. If you really want it find something right now, it’s all still there, just hiding at a slightly different (temporary) address: http...4 years ago
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The End - Back in 2011, a group of academic philosophers started a blog called “Bleeding Heart Libertarians.” The idea behind that blog was simple, but also somewh...4 years ago
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A good run: Overlawyered, 1999-2020 - I published the first Overlawyered post on July 1, 1999, and I expect this post on May 31, 2020 will be the last. As someone in the entertainment world o...4 years ago
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Looking for the vulture assist with Neolithic burials - The archaeological site of Çatalhöyük, in present-day Turkey, is one of the most significant early Neolithic villages to have been excavated. It was occu...4 years ago
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Not a Whiff of Scandal . . . Yeah, Right, Joe. Sure thing . . . - OK. I was going to write a long warm up/intro to the main topic of this piece, but my anger level kept rising. In light of that, therefore, let me drop the...4 years ago
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Cold War 2 Propaganda - So it seems that hostility to China is now official American policy. Redgov, i.e. the Military Industrial Complex has been pushing it for quite a while, ...4 years ago
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Recent writing - I haven’t written recently on this blog. I wrote for a year at The American Conservative. All the pieces are available here. I also wrote a piece Covid-19 ...4 years ago
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One flu over the cuckold’s nest - There have been a few articles like this doing the rounds: What It’s Like to Isolate With Your Girlfriend and Her Other Boyfriend Humiliating and degrading...4 years ago
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The real problem is also nominal - The real problem is also nominal March 15, 2020 *Confidence level (?): thinking out loud* If I closed my eyes and completely wiped from my mind the fac...4 years ago
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Outbreak: Anatomy of a Plague - [ by Charles Cameron — scientific [precision meets human error in cases of outbreak — with links to a terrific science thread by Palli Thordarson @PalliTho...4 years ago
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Coronavirus, the Great Reality Check - I’ve been watching the situation in China for nearly a month now, and I don’t think there are really words for how bad things are over there. I really am...4 years ago
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Maritime Policy and the Merchant Marine with Josh Hendrickson - Today, Josh Hendrickson joins the show to discuss his paper, “U.S. Maritime Policy and Economic Efficiency.” The paper discusses the controversial Jones ...4 years ago
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Podcast on Maritime Policy - I recently recorded an episode of The Economics Detective podcast with Garrett Petersen. The subject of the podcast is my paper, “U.S. Maritime Policy and ...4 years ago
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How to Respond to the Next Recession: Central Bank Fiscal Support - Now that it looks like like the next recession may be coming sooner rather than later, it's time to lay out what I think is clearly the best path forward f...4 years ago
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Book Review: Not Born Yesterday by Hugo Mercier - There are two core arguments put forward in *Not Born Yesterday*, the latest book by cognitive scientist Hugo Mercier. The first argument, one which I be...4 years ago
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Hard Startups - The most counterintuitive secret about startups is that it’s often easier to succeed with a hard startup than an easy one. A hard startup requires a lot...4 years ago
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On race and racism in everyday life – or how the race ideologues are winning - Public, political and institutional discourse can often appear strangely detached from ordinary, everyday life. On identity politics, now a specialist are...4 years ago
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Steno Majesty - This beautiful lady, known as the White Rose, was Queen Consort Geraldine of Albania in the 1930s. Don’t look closely into her politics – she and her husba...4 years ago
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Mike Bloomberg and is “Stop and Frisk” Racist? - With the entry of former New York Mayor Mike Bloomberg into the race to be the Democratic Party presidential nominee, we have the inevitable. The other r...4 years ago
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An Alternative Proposal for the BBC - by Douglas Carter I want to pay more money for product from the BBC. That’s not an intentionally incendiary sentiment. In terms, it’s exactly the correct ...4 years ago
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Free College: Not So Extreme - I’ve complained that for the most part, self-identified centrists and moderates prefer not to engage in direct arguments about their policy preferences in ...4 years ago
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Laugh About It, Shout About It When You’ve Got to Choose - I’m going to be one of the moderators for the Libertarian Party’s presidential candidates’ debate on Friday, February 28th, in conjunction with the Alabama...4 years ago
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Three laws of contemporary philosophy - FIRST LAW: Question everything! SECOND LAW: . . . except for the victimhood of women, racial minorities, LGBT, etc. THIRD LAW: Never, ever mention the seco...4 years ago
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Kalecki on the Political Aspects of Full Employment - Michal Kalecki 1899 - 1970 Sam Levey reminded me of Kalecki's 1943 article on the political aspects of full employment. This a very interesting and thoug...4 years ago
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Trashed Hotel rooms and horny groupies - Hey y'all, starting on April first, I am hitting the virtual road on my first blog tour to support Feral Creatures. Over 14 days, we will be making twenty...4 years ago
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Wuhan: a tale of immune system failure and social strength - For most Chinese people watching the unfolding of Wuhan’s coronavirus emergency, the situation escalated dramatically on Jan 20, almost 20 days after it wa...4 years ago
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Coronavirus - radical thoughts. - On January 25th, Neil Ferguson said that it was sensible to plan for the eventuality that containment efforts will not succeed: I think the evidence now s...4 years ago
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Forgiveness is only appropriate after repentance - The people who tried to thwart the implementation of a vote they lost must not be forgiven until they repent. People like Jolyon Maugham QC could have push...4 years ago
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Warming and the Snows of Yesteryear - I was recently reminded of one of the most common misconceptions about our changing climate that is often accepted as fact by climate skeptics and true b...4 years ago
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New Book: ESCAPING PATERNALISM - by Mario J. Rizzo and Glen Whitman Book description The burgeoning field of behavioral economics has produced a new set of justifications for paternalism. ...4 years ago
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Message heard. - I’ve been deeply moved and humbled by the overwhelming response to my post announcing that I planned on shutting down the blog. I’ve reconsidered and deci...4 years ago
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Is evolutionary psychology impossible? - p.caption { font-size: 0.7em; } Subrena Smith recently argued that “evolutionary psychology, as it is currently understood, is…impossible” (Smith 2019). I ...4 years ago
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I now blog on the Volokh Conspiracy - For the past few months, I have blogged at the Volokh Conspiracy, hosted by Reason. I had hoped to give to give this blog, which I founded in September 200...4 years ago
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Mungowit's End - I created a YouTube channel, with short videos based on some of my essays on economics. Fun to make, and I'm learning a lot about videos, to help me teach...4 years ago
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Cautious Optimism for Accused Student in Critical Eighth Circuit Appeal - Today featured the second of what likely will be five oral arguments in accused student appeals during the 2019-2020 session of Eighth Circuit, which cover...4 years ago
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Dad Runes - The 29th of this month would have been Terje Spurkland's 72nd birthday. I first encountered him in the academic year of 1980-81, when I was on a scholars...4 years ago
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The midrise obesity crisis in North America - Well, it's been a long while since my last post. A combination of a busy life, a feeling that I had said most of what I felt comfortable saying and a des...4 years ago
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Australian bushfires on Turkey’s answer to Al Jazeera - Last night I was interviewed by TRT – Turkey’s answer to Al Jazeera – on a panel moderated by Adnan Azwaz on the Australian fires. My fellow panellists wer...4 years ago
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The Estate of Jerry Pournelle Announces New Website and Facebook Group - To save Chaos Manor and provide ongoing care for Jerry Pournelle’s widow, the Estate of Dr. Jerry Pournelle has launched a new website at http://www.jerryp...4 years ago
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‘Two hands are a lot’ — we’re hiring data scientists, project managers, policy experts, assorted weirdos… - ‘This is possibly the single largest design flaw contributing to the bad Nash equilibrium in which … many governments are stuck. Every individual high-func...4 years ago
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Gender is not just a Social Construct - As the decade ends, I’m still pondering gender. Everything was so different in 2010. No intersectionality. No rape culture. No toxic masculinity. No incels...4 years ago
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A man of possible African ancestry buried in Anglo-Scandinavian York - The aim of the following brief note is to direct attention to a burial from a late ninth- to early eleventh-century cemetery in York. The burials here were...4 years ago
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Using Python to Gather Data from FRED for the Solow Model - This script gathers and generates data for Solow. The second two functions plot the data using matplotlib and save the visualizations in a PDF. import pan...5 years ago
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On the nature of forgiveness - Forgiveness is not an emotion or a single action. It is rather a change in your ontological* orientation towards the forgiven person, removing them fro...5 years ago
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Refuge Seeking in Relative Safety - There is a common misconception among Christians in particular that I’ve been mulling over these past weeks. As usual, my thoughts have been straying to Aa...5 years ago
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2019: The year revolt went global - Revolt as Consumer Backlash Beyond Washington DC, Donald Trump, and impeachment, there lies a great big world – and that world, at the moment, is being con...5 years ago
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“Goodnight, and Good Luck” - My February 2016 valedictory editorial note on the home page of Al Jazeera America the day we closed down. Still proud of the work we did, and the way we c...5 years ago
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Dictators - In my corner of Twitter, I recently became obliquely aware of a kerfuffle about Michael Bloomberg saying that “Xi Jinping is not a dictator”. (Twitter is f...5 years ago
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Noah means Noah: the high income-elasticity of health expenditure does not mean we are all going to starve! - No, @Noahpinion, we can spend proportionally more on health care and still consume much more of everything else. This is easily explained by productivity.5 years ago
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Links 1-30 November 2019 - Tab dump. - Moral Leadership and the Lebanese Military | Carnegie - Reforming Tunisia’s military courts | Brookings - Ira...5 years ago
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On the referendum #34: BATSIGNAL!! DON’T LET CORBYN-STURGEON CHEAT A SECOND REFERENDUM WITH MILLIONS OF FOREIGN VOTES - Dear Vote Leave supporters LET’S HONOUR THE REFERENDUM RESULT AND GET BREXIT DONE SO THE COUNTRY CAN MOVE ON Summary: Tell your family and friends face-to-...5 years ago
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Some Nice Praise in the Midst of Curses - I am well used to getting trashed on the internet. It comes with the job. And truth be told, I […] The post Some Nice Praise in the Midst of Curses appea...5 years ago
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A tale of two covariates: Why OWID and company are wrong about US healthcare - Properly understood, US healthcare is NOT an outlier. The slope is very consistent with the pattern of diminishing returns observed in other high-income ...5 years ago
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Nature Author's Oddball Piece on Bioethics - The journal Nature has published a lengthy Commentary piece by a UK based sociologist on Bioethics (the field, not the journal). It's part of a series of...5 years ago
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From lesbian and gay liberation to equality - Ruth Hunt, for her hundred thousand a year pieces of silver, has sold out lesbians and gay men out to girl dick and corporate cock. The post From lesbia...5 years ago
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What Randomization Can and Cannot Do: The 2019 Nobel Prize - It is Nobel Prize season once again, a grand opportunity to dive into some of our field’s most influential papers and to consider their legacy. This year’s...5 years ago
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Allan Meltzer's Life Work - The Hoover Press and the Mercatus Center have just released a new book on Allan Meltzer's contributions to economics. The book is comprised of papers th...5 years ago
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DOWNFALL OF NCAA WOULD IMPROVE AMERICAN EDUCATION - The 2019 California law allowing college athletes to retain agents and receive payment for use of their name and image opens the flood-gates to professio...5 years ago
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Taking the BPTC in the 15th-century - The 15th-century was the time in which English law came, in many ways, to resemble its modern form. There was parliament with a House of Commons and a Hous...5 years ago
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Conservative Sense and Sensibility with George F. Will - Can a revolution be conservative? Can populism? And what distinguishes British from American conservatism? *Washington Post* columnist George F. Will joins...5 years ago
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MESA 2019–Medieval and Early Modern Panels - The Middle East Studies Association (MESA) is holding its annual conference, one of the largest gatherings of scholars working on the history of the greate...5 years ago
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THE DEFENSE OF FORT DAVIS, Chapter 4 - Chapter 4 Six miles west of Fort Davis, Fall 1881 Chief Victorio blew into his clenched hands, rubbed them together and held them toward the flames. Even w...5 years ago
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Den ofördelaktiga utvecklingen av dödligt våld i Sverige - Förra veckan frågade SVT statsministern om ökningen av dödligt våld: ”Du har varit statsminister sedan 2014. Sedan dess har det accelererat. Vilket ansva...5 years ago
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Why Trump Is a Potential Tyrant: A Comparative Look - The question is not about whether Trump will be a tyrant, but that he wants to. Trump wants to be a tyrant, his behavior shows he's behaving like other tyr...5 years ago
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Giving Credit Where It’s Due - The US economy is probably going into recession. Manufacturing production is down from the late-2018 highs, retail spending growth, wages and payroll gai...5 years ago
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Abortion views by religion, 1970's-1990's - Variables: ABANY, RELIG16, Years (1972-1999), Race(1) Sample Size: 18,5735 years ago
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The CTRL ALT Revolt Controversy - The Original Blog Post and some Thoughts on the Crisis of Where We Find Ourselves As the current culture war escalates into a series of asymmetrical engage...5 years ago
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CNN Debate Math - The Democratic debates on July 30 and 31 were a little less than 3 hours long each. A conservative estimate would be 150 minutes. 150 minutes /10 candidat...5 years ago
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Why Kevin Williamson is wrong about poverty and bad behavior - I recently wrote a post at Bloomberg Opinion arguing that "bad behavior" - drug use, violence, single parenthood, and idleness - is not the main cause o...5 years ago
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Important: Nintil.com is moving! - IMPORTANT NOTICE: I’ve been making changes to the way the blog looks like, making it load faster, and adding it a much needed feature, browsing by category...5 years ago
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A Glimpse of Hell - Via Religion News: HOT SPRINGS, N.C. (RNS) — For years, liberals — even liberal people of faith — have been wary of fusions of faith and politics, careful ...5 years ago
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Live Chat – The Density Divide: Urbanization, Polarization & Populist Backlash - I discuss my new paper on polarization and the rise of ethno-nationalist populism as overlooked side-effects of urbanization in this free-wheeling live cha...5 years ago
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The Earnings Mirage: Why Corporate Profits are Overstated and What it Means for Investors - I just published a new long-form piece through OSAM Research Partners entitled “The Earnings Mirage: Why Corporate Profits are Overstated and What it Means...5 years ago
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Find me on Facebook and at my other blog, Frauds, Crooks and Criminals - If you have missed news about refugees, I’m still writing about them at Frauds and Crooks and as of last night I am back up and running at Refugee Resettle...5 years ago
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The Cold War and the Ascendance of America’s Research University - (This essay was published in Hong Kong Economic Journal on 29 May 2019.) ……… These three young universities, all founded in the second half of 19th century...5 years ago
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What might an alternative to the ODNI Rating Scale be like? - In the previous post I raised various issues with the ODNI Rating Scale for intelligence products. At least some of these are serious problems. Some time i...5 years ago
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Crypto-Current (064) - §5.8612 — Decentralization of the ledger requires massive multiplication, and thus an effective method of compression. Only in this way does it become trac...5 years ago
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Blog moving to Spandrell.com - ***This blog is moving to Spandrell.com ***Please update your bookmarks/RSS readers. Spandrell.com, two ls. First they banned Youtubers, but I didn’t say a...5 years ago
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Which Powers could afford to ’do it all’ in World War Two - There’s an old saying that David and Leigh Eddings paraphrased in one of their fantasy books: “any fool can raise an army, but you start running into tr...5 years ago
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Socialist Monetary Policy - Consider a command economy that doesn't fully dispense with money but rather pays wages to the workers in all of the nationalized industries and charges th...5 years ago
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Version 1.3.2 now uploaded - Version 1.3.2 now uploaded A new version of the NIQ dataset was completed yesterday and uploaded today. It now includes 669 samples with a total of 617,581...5 years ago
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Boston Marathon Training Update, new podcasts - The last time I updated my marathon training, things were going great. I had steadily increased my mileage, and by the end of January did my first half-mar...5 years ago
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The Institutional Foundations of Antisemitism - Antisemitism has returned to mainstream politics in Europe and America. One fundamental misconception about antisemitism is that it is simply another for...5 years ago
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Offended by the term coloured? Let me show you what real racism looks like. - All the screeching about comments like Amber Rudd referring to a ‘coloured’ woman rather than a ‘person of colour’ or Angela Smith saying ‘funny tinge’ sug...5 years ago
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Momentum needs to talk to its members about Israel - On Thursday afternoon, the left-wing activist group Momentum released a video designed to educate its members about anti-Semitism. It's the kind of init...5 years ago
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Seumas Milne and the Stasi - Spectator Few noticed in 2015 when Seumas Milne excused the tyranny that held East Germany in its power from the Soviet Invasion in 1945 until the fall of ...5 years ago
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Linguistics and Theology Scholar Challenges Qur'an Origin Story - This blog post has been moved. Click HERE to read it. * Subscribe to markdurie.com blog by email. This text may be reposted or forwarded so long as it is ...5 years ago
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Diversity’s Dilemma - There’s a sort of prisoner’s dilemma now facing a federal judge in the ongoing Harvard race discrimination court battle. As you know, the prisoner’s dilemm...5 years ago
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Social Infrastructure in Cities Today: Eric Klinenberg's “Palaces for the People” - I just finished reading Eric Klinenberg’s excellent new book, *Palaces for the People: How Social Infrastructure can Help Fight Inequality, Polarization...5 years ago
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Reaction and Populism: Towards the Unpozzed Republic - Having been made by elites to dive headlong down the outhouse hole into the muck beneath, the common people have began to notice that it stinks and is very...5 years ago
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Debunking the China Debt Trap Myth, Sri Lanka/Hambantota Edition - *[I've come to the opinion that a not insignificant chunk of China coverage that currently pops up in the Western media is an info op curated by China ha...6 years ago
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Please read this short story - "My Mother is a Lunar Crater" - *by Salman Hameed* There are very few writers who can provide a nuanced critique of politics in different cultures, bring science into their stories, an...6 years ago
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Weekend update: Tedx restored to youtube - Apparently the original posting of this (staggeringly brief) talk suffered from imperfect audio (I never listened to it, so I can't say first-hand whethe...6 years ago
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George Cowgill's database and my introduction to scientific archaeology - Here is a very short video that describes how I first got into the science of archaeology: George had a database!6 years ago
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European Court’s Anti-Muslim Ruling - In a decision made this October, the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) has neglected the basic principle of freedom of speech to uphold the “right of o...6 years ago
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New Website - For future updates, please visit my new, redesigned site at: https://blogs.uoregon.edu/timduyfedwatch/6 years ago
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The Authoritarian Power Base - As I’ve written, political power is, in essence, the capacity for violence and the will to use it. The power of a leader comes from his authority over, his...6 years ago
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For Thomas Hobbes, Politics Was Simply About Doubt and Faith - Four hundred years ago, an English intellectual developed political ideas different to what we may recognize as familiar. 1. Schmitt and Hobbes In his cele...6 years ago
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Saudi Arabia Lightens Up on Women – A Little - Saudi Arabia is about to become slightly less like a Taliban state. Hardline Sunni Wahhabis have long enforced strict gender segregation and the veiling ...6 years ago
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UPDATE - UPDATE I AM NOT ALTOGETHER WELL I SHALL RETURN TO HOSPITAL TOMORROW FOR BLOOD TRANSFUSIONS. I'II KEEP READERS INFORMED. BEST WISHES. GAVON6 years ago
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Waking Up to Issues in the Atheist Scene - Not long ago, similar emails to the one I'll share below were only sent to me by Muslims questioning their faith, scripture and double standards, etc. I s...6 years ago
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Dragon Ball series teaches valuable life lessons - Watching the Dragon Ball series life lesson nostalgia. Every episode hints at hidden esoteric gems. Allow me to provide a high-level overview of what’s r...6 years ago
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The era of ‘soft’ central planning - More than a decade ago, The Economist (at the time still a classical liberal publication – how times change…) published an excellent article on ‘soft pater...6 years ago
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New Release: Cato Journal on The Future of Monetary Policy - This issue of the Cato Journal is dedicated to Allan H. Meltzer who passed away on May 8, 2017. Allan spoke at the 1st Annual Monetary Conference in 1983...6 years ago
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Please Put Down Your Sledgehammers: On the Parkland Students, Left Reductionism, and Aversion to Strategic Alliance - By William J. Weikart When I Facebook reposted a .gif rendering of Emma González that said “I Stand With Her”, I was feeling her emotional courage, and ins...6 years ago
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What is the meaning of an accusation of racism? - Guy comes up to you on the street and says: “I know who you are. You may look like a human, but I know that’s a disguise. You have taken over the body of a...6 years ago
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Are NY Republicans a friend to men, boys, fathers, or families? - While Republicans in NYS certainly talk a good game of supporting men, fathers, and families the talk is just that, cheap talk. Now that we have 20 years ...6 years ago
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The Power of Positive Persistence - Strategies to flip negative attacks by Republicans into positive progress for Americans Like some foreign dictator, the Republican in the White House will ...6 years ago
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Review of "Weep For Day" by Indrapramit Das (2012) - *Introduction: *Being well aware that this story was probably put at the head of the *Best New SF 26* anthology to highlight some sort of committment to "...6 years ago
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A living fossil, back to GNXP.COM - Just a note. I am moving back to the original Gene Expression domain. If you consume my content through my Twitter auto feed (not my main Twitter account) ...7 years ago
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The Positive Inter-Religious Effect of Reading About Peace First’s Programs - In our last post, we wrote about how we are currently working with numerous partners bridging divisions and one of the common questions that partners get c...7 years ago
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The Stormtrooper Marksmanship Myth - [Jonathan Jeckell is a regenerated U.S. Army officer striving find unique ways to remain useful to his country.] Stormtroopers have been the butt of jokes ...7 years ago
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Why AARP has an entire team dedicated to answering Facebook comments - AARP, the 60-year-old special interest group that advocates for older Americans, has never been shy about flexing its policy muscles or leveraging its enor...7 years ago
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Ideas Generation and Behavioural Insights - Here is the ideas grid I use when working with local authorities to co-produce ways of using behavioural insights. Each effect has a ‘how can we use it?’ c...7 years ago
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What caused the dramatic rise of crime and blight in American cities from 1950 to 2000? - On Reddit’s most lauded history subreddit (/r/AskHistorians) someone asked “What caused the dramatic rise of violent crimes and urban decay in the mid-to...7 years ago
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New Immigration Blog - Long time no see! Just popping in to point toward a new immigration blog fresh on the ‘blogosphere’ (is that still a thing?). It’s infrequent, maybe a post...7 years ago
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Financial globalisation: Whither Financialisation - McKinsey has recently released an excellent summary of global finance. The authors present a positive picture of global finance despite the significant de...7 years ago
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Labour relations & textiles: addenda - This post contains related topics and disjointed observations as addenda to “Labour repression & the Indo-Japanese divergence” in cotton textiles. (Lack of...7 years ago
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Innovation in Economics Pedagogy and Publishing - Well, it's Labor Day weekend, which means that Barnard and Columbia students are back on campus and classes are about to begin. This semester I'm teaching...7 years ago
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Hurricane Harvey: Thanksgiving in The Wake of Tragedy - “Bad things do happen; how I respond to them defines my character and the quality of my life. I can choose to sit in perpetual sadness, immobilized by the ...7 years ago
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The Morality of Faith Schools - On Wednesday July 19 I appeared on BBC Radio 4’s Moral Maze to discuss the Al-Hijrah school controversy. A long-running legal battle between Ofsted and the...7 years ago
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Moderate rebels and augmented reality - A common characteristic of the multiple regime change interventions in the Middle East is the financial, military, and moral support given by Western gov...7 years ago
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This blog is now closed... - ...and I'm now blogging at http://www.ecosophia.net. All of the posts that appeared here during the eleven-year run of *The Archdruid Report* will be issu...7 years ago
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The Sovereign Myth - States have never had full control over their outcomes — a fact we tend to ignore only while things are going well. The post The Sovereign Myth appeared ...7 years ago
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Chinese political operations in Australia: a popular pro-CCP reading - Hua Daodao, a deputy editor in the Huanqiu Shibao‘s commentary department, has written a piece offering useful insights into how the Australian media’s lat...7 years ago
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On the Importance of Voting - On this Thursday, 8th of June 2017, millions of people will be going to polling stations throughout the United Kingdom in order to cast their vote in t...7 years ago
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Don’t abuse history in order to score cheap political points - "What I object to—and what my interlocutors maddeningly refuse to engage with—is the effort to use history and Jewish memory, in particular, the crimes of ...7 years ago
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Diecast #197: BATTLEGROUNDS, Westerado, Call of Duty - Hosts: Rutskarn, Shamus, Campster and Baychel. 01:35: Bay Eats Candy Bay tries famous candies for the first time. You can read the results on her blog. 11:...7 years ago
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Hayek, Knowledge, and Carbon Taxes: Markets Without Prices or Prices Without Markets? - As far as I know, Friedrich Hayek never wrote a word about climate change, but two of his most famous works contain arguments that bear directly on this ke...7 years ago
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Collecting metal: the inner and outer worlds of jewelry, coins, bullion bits, and odd shiny things - Millions of millennia ago, in our own Milky Way galaxy, but far upstream of where we are today, two neutron stars spiraled around each other, each embodyi...7 years ago
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Collecting metal: the inner and outer worlds of jewelry, coins, bullion bits, and odd shiny things - Millions of millennia ago, in our own Milky Way galaxy, but far upstream of where we are today, two neutron stars spiraled around each other, each embodyi...7 years ago
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How the Democrats can Rebuild - Appearing in: Orange County Register Numerous commentaries from both the political left and right have expounded the parlous state of the Democratic Part...7 years ago
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Trump’s Immigration Fatwa - I recently read an article by a conservative writer who I normally respect. But this piece brought me up short. … More7 years ago
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Military Power in an Age of Raiding - I was lucky enough to be invited to speak as part of the Ministry of Defence’s new ‘Force Exploration’ Cadre. Here it is. I’m so grateful and honoured to b...7 years ago
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Mein weltanschauung - My friends Ben and Sam have both written posts about which articles and books have influenced their thinking. There’s not a whole world of difference betw...8 years ago
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Africa and the cold beauty of Maths - [image: Africa TIMMS equipercentile] Things move fast. A published paper comes to the attention of Steve Sailer and suddenly a section of a puzzle get...8 years ago
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Moving house - People connected to me have justifiably asked that I move my blog to a more anonymous platform. Although I’ve made an effort to remove my name from this bl...8 years ago
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“The Intel On This Wasn’t 100 Percent” - Gee. Ya think? Mr. Welch, the father of two daughters, said he woke up Sunday morning and told his family he had some things to do. He left “Smallsbury,” a...8 years ago
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Europe is collapsing - A mini Brexit is happening in Italy and socialist policies are slowly going down, one by... The post Europe is collapsing appeared first on The Gorka Bri...8 years ago
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Trump’s Foreign Policy: The Good, The Bad and The Ugly - In this most memorable of U.S. elections, it has become generally received wisdom that Donald Trump will have us slouching towards a dangerously erratic, p...8 years ago
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Anarchism - Anarchisms are highly diverse in their visions of the society to replace both the State and other forms of social life which they judge undesirable, inclu...8 years ago
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Florida Election Officials Caught Filling Out Absentee Ballots, Affidavit Alleges #FloridaFraud - Florida voters have complained that they have not been receiving their requested absentee ballots. We may now know the reason why. According to a former Se...8 years ago
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Our Growing Political Dysfunction – What’s to Be Done? - This is from a Reuters article yesterday: “Only half of Republicans would accept Clinton, the Democratic nominee, as their president. And if she wins, near...8 years ago
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501 Treasures of Byzantium: No. 41-50. - No.41: Troyes casket with emperors and hunters, 10th century, Catherdral of Troyes, France. This surprising treasure resides in the Cathedral of Troyes, in...8 years ago
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Heroic Age Papers! - Merovingians and Their Neighbors Sponsor: *The Heroic Age* Session Organizer: Deanna Forsman Contact: Deanna Forsman North Hennepin Community College 7411 ...8 years ago
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Teen Wolf – Ranking the Seasons - MTV’s hit show Teen Wolf returns this fall for it’s final season. It’s an emotional time for its fans. So I decided to take a look back at the seasons and ...8 years ago
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THINGS ARE MOVING - AGAIN - The WSJ’s Peggy Noonan checks US election numbers: The polls are tightening and no one is sure why. A Reuters/Ipsos poll through…8 years ago
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The Redistribution of Humiliation - The recent EU referendum in the UK has drawn a great deal of attention to voters who had previously been ignored. Communities left behind by the 21st Centu...8 years ago
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Statement delivered at the UN highlights restrictions on freedom of belief in Egypt and Saudi Arabia - At the 32nd regular session of the UN Human Rights Council, the British Humanist Association teamed up with Arab Humanists to deliver a joint statement a...8 years ago
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EU vote: Scotland will ruin UK’s chance of a Brexit - If you could pick one person from British society and be certain they would vote Remain, who would you choose?8 years ago
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Posiitive progress for Venezuelan Socialism - “We have been impressed by the great effort that your government has taken to improve the living standards of the majority of Venezuelans. … what Venezuela...8 years ago
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The Coming UK Productivity Recovery - Duncan Weldon has written an excellent article about the UK’s productivity puzzle. Slowing...8 years ago
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Fiscal Policy and the ZLB - I have been doing some reading for my undergraduate thesis, which looks at the role of credit-supply shocks in the Spain during its housing boom and bust, ...8 years ago
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Every day should be International Women’s Day - Every day should be International Women’s Day Bread and Roses TV with Maryam Namazie and Fariborz Pooya 8 March 2016 Interview with Bangladeshi Author and ...8 years ago
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By: the unBalanced ecoLOGist | The Unbalanced Ecologist - […] weeks ago, I was invited to write a commentary about an online essay written by Erle Ellis for the Social Evolution Forum (a project of the Evolution I...8 years ago
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Convicted Pedophile Admits to Sexually Abusing Young Girl with Asperger’s Syndrome - Convicted pedophile Paul John Bickford, aged 70, has received a 16 month suspended sentence after pleading guilty to indecently assaulting (sexually molest...8 years ago
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Samurai Gifts - The book's third chapter examines the role of gift exchange and other ritual performances in the politics of warrior relations in the late sixteenth and ...8 years ago
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Where are the “devaluationists”? - A Resolution Foundation report on UK monetary policy reminds me of the near absence of discussion about devaluation. The report has a section on policy op...8 years ago
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Treasure and mystery in Byzantine Cappadocia. - Before the Romans, other ancient civilisations, notably the Achaemenid Empire, once inhabited the mountainous region of central Anatolia called Cappadocia....9 years ago
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Salvaging the Tatters of the Obama Doctrine - When president Obama told George Stephanopoulos only hours before the Paris attack that his administration had “contained ISIS” he may have been wrong but ...9 years ago
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The Sumner Also Rises (to the task) - We again interrupt our blogging hiatus, to acknowledge some fine work by Bentley University economist Scott Sumner (who is also the Ralph G. Hawtrey Chair ...9 years ago
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Podcast #363: The Future of America, Vulnerability, Cheating, and More - On Sunday’s episode of Philosophy in Action Radio, Greg Perkins and I answered questions on the future of the United States, the value of vulnerability, ch...9 years ago
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We've Moved - The Mischiefs of Faction is now located at mischiefsoffaction.com. Here's how to follow us: All our posts will appear on our new homepage, here. You can...9 years ago
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What Russian Intelligence Knows About Hillary Clinton - It is my privilege to reveal to you this highly classified National Security Agency intercept which reveals just what Russian intelligence knew about Hilla...9 years ago
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A Koku of Rice - Lately, I’ve been fascinated by the concept of a koku (石) of rice: I find it pretty neat. A koku was a Japanese unit of volume (of rice) in use especially ...9 years ago
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Book Review: Intelligence (2015) by Stuart Ritchie - An Uphill Battle It’s no easy task to explain why intelligence is so important. The reason for this is oddly enough that many highly intelligent people i...9 years ago
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A CryptoFiction - Here’s a micro-story I started with the Access Crypto Summit flash fiction prompt in mind, left half done, and then belatedly finished off anyway, because ...9 years ago
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Canada Day, 2015. Mahsie, Nika Illahie. - Further to my Canada Day column Finding the Right Words for Canada’s History I thought I’d put this up. It’s from Rain Language, a long poem in translation...9 years ago
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Don Boudreaux seems to pick and choose his view on average product and wages depending on what the liberal du jour is arguing - Recently, Don Boudreaux called Robert Reich sophomoric for suggesting that productivity (as the BLS measures it) and real wages should move in tandem. Even...9 years ago
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Why Mothers Are So Special - Mothers hold a privileged status within the human experience. I address some of the foundational evolutionary principles that explain the mother-child bond...9 years ago
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Half Of Ferguson's Young African-American Men Are Missing - This is a guest post by Stephen Bronars, a Senior Economist at Welch Consulting, Ph.D. in Economics from University of Chicago. His opinions are his own. M...9 years ago
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The Years Of Writing Dangerously - Thirteen years ago, as I was starting to experiment with this blogging thing, I wrote the following: [T]he speed with which an idea in your head reaches th...9 years ago
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Obama’s comments on the Great Barrier Reef - In the last few days I’ve carefully read comments emanating from the Coalition government that suggested an undue intervention in Australian politics by Pr...10 years ago
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Our first virtual Screenwriting Workshop! - T woke up on Monday with the idea, bubbling with notions, and I think it's a fabulous way to explore the new media potentials for a virtual classroom. We c...10 years ago
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What does my research contribute to our understanding of the Hong Kong protests? - Did Xi Jinping miscalculate by not allowing free elections in Hong Kong? We cannot know whether the Chinese leadership expected protests of this magnitude,...10 years ago
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Taxation vs. Expropriation - What’s the difference between a 50% marginal tax rate on income vs. 50% expropriation by a kleptocratic ruler or corrupt officials? Some models might sug...10 years ago
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18c – a win for Sally Sensitive - Sadly, it looks like 18c is not going to be done away with in a hurry. It’s a shame, because making a crime out of causing offence to someone is an utte...10 years ago
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The streets of old Fitzroy - I've lived in Fitzroy for 14 years, and long before I moved here spent some formative moment in its pubs and terrace houses. I have an unpublished novel th...10 years ago
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Why Indians are Too Stupid to Build Toilets – were it not for the Media! - There has been a ghastly rape in some Indian village. Two girls got raped and later hanged by the perpetrators after “they left their toilet-less home duri...10 years ago
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By: Anonymous - Great article, however, I don't see yet a study explaining the effects of Cannabis being freed completely overnight, lifting all restrictions and allowing ...10 years ago
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Farewell - In memoriam: Gary S. Becker, 1930-2014. The Becker-Posner blog is terminated. Richard A. Posner10 years ago
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Why Monetary Policy Should Ignore Financial Stability - Financial stability is apparently the new hot reason to tighten monetary policy, and in this article for Quartz I go in on some reasons for why this is a h...10 years ago
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Governance, aesthetics and architecture - I have been meaning to write up a few thoughts that came out of a beer-fueled conversation with a friend some weeks ago. We both lived in Austin, TX for so...10 years ago
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Norman Geras: 1943-2013 - I am very sad to announce that Norm died in Addenbrooke's hospital in Cambridge in the early hours of this morning. Writing this blog, and communicating wi...11 years ago
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OxcOOd1199 Error - Windows Media Player is a great way to view your favorite movie content. However, with the program comes the risk of the occasional OxcOOd1199 error occuri...11 years ago
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Jide Who Played Jesus to be Ordained - *MEDIA *INFORMATION *NEWS FROM THE EAST HAM TEAM* For Immediate Use 11 June 2013 *Jide who played Jesus to be ordained* The man who played Jesus in the N...11 years ago
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In which I amuse myself at a government ministers expense. - Now funnily enough I happen to live in the town where this has just happened. This may be the furthest south any group has landed, to put it in perspecti...11 years ago
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Skill Scores: Re: Nick Rowe - But if both forecasters are imperfect, how do we use the data to tell us which forecaster was better? Or how good each one is on a scale with pure gue...12 years ago
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An Independent Wild Hunt - We at the Patheos Pagan channel bid The Wild Hunt much luck in its new phase as an independent website. To catch the latest from TWH, please check out wild...12 years ago
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Modeled Behavior’s RSS Feed - Hopefully within the next day or two we will be able to get Modeled Behavior.com to redirect to our Forbes Blog. Yet, it looks as if there is no way to ge...12 years ago
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Actually, maybe it is the NGDP after all - I’ve gotten a lot of really smart pushback on my claims about the UK economy, and I think I have significantly underestimated what I already believed to be...12 years ago
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Moving to FTB! - Today I am freezing my Blogger account and moving my blog to Freethought Blogs, a prominent all-atheist venture. This move will help me earn an income doin...13 years ago
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Sharia law, universal rights and secularism - See my speech and the ensuing discussion at a meeting organised by the Danish Atheist Association in Copenhagen, Denmark on 27 September 2011. There was a ...13 years ago
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Homesick Blues - On July 29, 1898, a string of headlines in The New York Times read: A DEATH BY NOSTALGIA / The Case of Private Atkins, Who Died of Homesickness, Regarded ...13 years ago
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The tax forum as a platform for a grand bargain? - In his Challenges of Federation speech we referred to in a previous article, Prime Minister’s Department Secretary Terry Moran said: *There are business l...13 years ago
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The satisfaction of learning a new skill - Today I learned how to do short row shaping in knitting. It's a technique that is easy to do, and hard to explain. I've tried several times in the past. so...13 years ago
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The Rand Paul reality for gays - Some Republicans are trying to brush it off as the kind of debate you have in you freshman dorm at 2 a.m. Not so for us gays. The objection raised by Rand ...14 years ago
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