Kicking away the energy ladder – How environmentalism destroys hope for the poorest
06 May 2018 Leave a comment
North Korea is at one of the unpleasant edges of human possibility
05 May 2018 Leave a comment
Dalrymple writes:
I think it was Jean Améry who said that once you have been tortured you remain tortured. I do not mean to claim any kind of equivalence in the experience, but once you have been to North Korea, you never forget it, either—as, for example, you might forget whether or not you have ever been to Stevenage or Welwyn Garden City.
In 1989, Dalrymple embedded himself in a delegation to the World Festival of Youth and Students (run by the World Federation of Democratic Youth), which was then being held in Pyongyang. (He was neither a youth nor a student at the time.)
Ever since, he says,
I have been drawn to pictures of the Kim dynasty, whether of Kim the First, Second, or Third. There is a fascination to this horrible family that makes the Borgias seem like philanthropists. The Borgias certainly had better taste.
He…
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Was Karl Marx right? | The Economist
05 May 2018 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, business cycles, development economics, economic history, economics of bureaucracy, entrepreneurship, history of economic thought, industrial organisation, labour economics, macroeconomics, Marxist economics, poverty and inequality, Public Choice, public economics Tags: economics of socialism
From Paul Samuelson’s essay on marxist economics
David Friedman – Stateless and Semi-Stateless Societies in Fiction and Semi-Fiction
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in applied price theory, David Friedman, economic history, law and economics, Public Choice
Marriage, Dating, Sex and Vikings – David Friedman
04 May 2018 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, David Friedman, economics of love and marriage, law and economics Tags: dating market, economics of marriage
Biggest wave ever surfed: 80 feet!
04 May 2018 2 Comments
You might have heard that a Brazilian man set the world’s record for surfing on the biggest wave yet. Have a gander at this video, which the Guinness World Record folk have certified as being the biggest wave successfully surfed. Their information:
Riding the waves is something millions of people love to do, but nobody has ridden a wave as big as Brazil’s Rodrigo Koxa.
The 38-year-old is now the official Guinness World Records title holder for the Largest wave surfed (unlimited) which measured 24.38 m (80 ft).
Koza rode the wave at Nazaré, Portugal, on 8 November 2017 but was awarded the Quiksilver XXL Biggest Wave award by the World Surf League (WSL) at an event in California, US, on Saturday 28 April.
Look at that monster! It must have been the ride of a lifetime!
The record-setter!
Rodrigo Koxa with his Quiksilver award. Copyright: World Surf League
An Interview with F. A. Hayek (1984)
03 May 2018 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, Austrian economics, F.A. Hayek, macroeconomics
Understanding chemical warfare in the First World War
03 May 2018 Leave a comment
In August 1918, while waiting to advance east of Amiens, Sergeant Sawyer Spence lay in a shell hole contaminated with mustard gas. Feeling no ill effects he only reluctantly agreed to be evacuated; only after 24 hours did medics realise that his uniform had been saturated by the oily liquid. By the time he reached a hospital twelve days later, in the converted pavilion of Nottingham’s Trent Bridge Cricket Ground, the whole of one side of his back and legs was septic and discharging pus, the result of massive blistering. He was the worst mustard gas case that the hospital had ever seen.
Sawyer Spence suffering extensive mustard gas blisters, Trent Bridge Hospital, Nottingham, 1918. © Jon Spence, used with permission.
Sawyer Spence was one of an estimated half a million chemical warfare victims of the First World War. The first were on 22nd April 1915 when the Germans released 150…
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Can you spot the most important information in this title?
03 May 2018 Leave a comment
The main Soviet strategic bomber is still in the air based on a B-29 design stolen in 1945 when several were forced to land in Russian territory because of lack of fuel after bombing Japan
The Diplomathas a piece up with the following title: “Russia’s Sole Aircraft Carrier to Be Fitted With Advanced New Air Defense System.”
The author of the piece goes on to wax poetic about the advanced new air defense system, but that’s not the most important information being conveyed. It’s the fact that Russia – Russia – has a single aircraft carrier.
Here is Popular Mechanics on countries and their aircraft carriers.
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