How Inertial Navigation Changed Air, Sea & Space Travel for Ever?
12 Jan 2024 Leave a comment
in economics of media and culture
The Navajo Nation tries to prevent human ashes from being sent to the Moon
10 Jan 2024 Leave a comment
in economics of media and culture, politics - USA Tags: moon landing
Here’s an example of how indigenous peoples, on the basis of their superstitions and religion, try to control modern technology or how it’s used and science. In this case, reported by CNN (click on screenshot below), a commercial enterprise is taking some small amounts of human remains (presumably ashes, though it’s not clear) to the […]
The Navajo Nation tries to prevent human ashes from being sent to the Moon
Holiday safety advice
29 Dec 2023 Leave a comment
in economics of media and culture, health and safety, labour economics
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Meat Made Us Human
29 Dec 2023 Leave a comment
in economics of media and culture Tags: vegetarianism
Humans are now in the optimal position of growing grain to feed animals to produce meat.
Meat Made Us Human
28 Dec 2023 Leave a comment
in economics of education, economics of media and culture Tags: Australia, economics of languages
24 Dec 2023 Leave a comment
in economics of love and marriage, economics of media and culture, law and economics Tags: dating markets, marriage and divorce
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24 Dec 2023 Leave a comment
in economics of media and culture, entrepreneurship, industrial organisation, movies, survivor principle, television Tags: creative destruction
Another NYT writer resigns in lieu of being fired
20 Dec 2023 Leave a comment
in defence economics, economics of media and culture, laws of war, liberalism, Marxist economics, politics - USA, war and peace Tags: free speech, Gaza Strip, Israel, Middle-East politics, political correctness, regressive left, war against terror
Another writer for the New York Times, one who had accrued numerous accolades, resigned after having signed her second petition staking out a political position. As the NYT itself reported below, its Magazine writer Jazmine Hughes decided to resign from the paper after discussions with management. (She would have been fired had she not left.) […]
Another NYT writer resigns in lieu of being fired
The strategy that saved the NY Times
17 Dec 2023 Leave a comment
in economics of media and culture, industrial organisation, survivor principle Tags: political correctness, regressive left
Economist: The new New York Times was the product of two shocks – sudden collapse, and then sudden success. The paper almost went bankrupt during the financial crisis, and the ensuing panic provoked a crisis of confidence among its leaders. Digital competitors like the HuffPost were gaining readers and winning plaudits within the media industry as innovative. They were the…
The strategy that saved the NY Times
Shit or go blind? You did neither.
12 Dec 2023 Leave a comment
in economics of media and culture, television, TV shows Tags: Age of Enlightenment, free speech, political correctness, regressive left
The Woke are increasingly reminding me of this classic Far Side cartoon, in that their “solutions” are exactly the same for every problem, including also being a single word,. The Veternarian pictured below also obviously doesn’t believe in fixing disabilities – although she’s at least not prepared to leave them to suffer in order to […]
Shit or go blind? You did neither.
You’re fooling yourself if you think you can land that plane
05 Dec 2023 Leave a comment
in behavioural economics, economics of education, economics of information, economics of media and culture, transport economics Tags: air accidents
Almost everyone has thought about it at least once. You’re on a plane, minding your own business when suddenly and unexpectedly, an announcement comes over your entertainment system that the pilots have been incapacitated and they are urgently looking for someone to land the plane. Would you put your hand up for this heroic task?…
You’re fooling yourself if you think you can land that plane
Thousands of Students at Warwick Uni “Forced to Go Vegan”
29 Nov 2023 Leave a comment
in economics of media and culture, health economics, Marxist economics Tags: vegetarianism
By Paul Homewood h/t Willie Soon. Maybe the vast majority of sensible students will finally wake up to the idiot fringe, who are making them all look idiots. I would suggest a Bacon Sandwichathon, where they all bring bacon sandwiches into the canteen, and eat them in front of the sad little […]
Thousands of Students at Warwick Uni “Forced to Go Vegan”
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