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The Internet is a mixed blessing

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On the competition between the truth and a lie

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Crazy selfies in dangerous places (Quality of photos is amazing)

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by Jim Rose in economics of media and culture Tags: selfies

13 Extreme Selfies That Are Not For The Faint Hearted. Number 6 Will Make You Sick.

13 Extreme Selfies That Are Not For The Faint Hearted. Number 6 Will Make You Sick.

13 Extreme Selfies That Are Not For The Faint Hearted. Number 6 Will Make You Sick.

Sports ranked by difficulty

19 Dec 2014 1 Comment

by Jim Rose in economics of media and culture, sports economics

The Larry Sanders Show – Americans can do dry comedy

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by Jim Rose in economics of media and culture, TV shows Tags: The Larry Sanders Show

The Larry Sanders show was on late-night television and has not been repeated for at least 10 years. A great pity. In the same division as Seinfeld as a quality comedy.

This early HBO production was a classy satire set behind the curtain on a late-night talk show, hosted by toothily neurotic Larry (show creator Garry Shandling).

Not only did it popularize spoof chat shows but it kick-started the vogue for celebrities queuing up to play exaggerated versions of themselves in the likes of Extras, Curb Your Enthusiasm and 30 Rock. Its lead writer Judd Apatow went on to become the king of Hollywood comedy.

The Big Lebowski will be preserved as a historical piece of American culture

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by Jim Rose in economics of media and culture, movies Tags: The Big Lebowski

A great movie about a bunch of losers and misfits.

Jim Hacker explains the London newspaper readership

19 Dec 2014 1 Comment

by Jim Rose in economics of media and culture, Public Choice Tags: Yes Minister, Yes Prime Minister

The competition between social networks all in one infographic

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Who to trust for news now that we live in an infotopia?

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by Jim Rose in economics of information, economics of media and culture, industrial organisation, survivor principle Tags: information cocoons, information overload, infotainment, infotopia

Behind in my bashing of organic farming – truth in advertising need not apply

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by Jim Rose in economics of information, economics of media and culture, health economics Tags: consumer fraud, organic farming, Quacks, truth in advertising

The Wealth of Grumpy Cat – In defense of the monetisation of uncommon cuteness.

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by Jim Rose in cats, economics of media and culture, entrepreneurship Tags: cats. grumpy cat

via The Wealth of Grumpy Cat – The Atlantic.

The character narrative charts of a few famous movies

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HT: http://xkcd.com/657/

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Was Aaron Sorkin right? Hollywood discriminates? Sacrifices profit to indulge sexism?

17 Dec 2014 1 Comment

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Rock ‘n’ roll will live to the end of their days

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by Jim Rose in economics of media and culture, Music

HT: Peta Mandleberg

New Study Reveals Most Influential Languages | IFLScience

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by Jim Rose in economics of media and culture Tags: economics of language, network economics

An interactive version of this map is available on MIT’s website.

New Study Reveals Most Influential Languages | IFLScience.

David Andolfatto

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Monetary Non-Neutrality

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Reason Magazine

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Thoughts from the North

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My Journey Through the Best Presidential Biographies

Reading the Best Biographies of All Time

A History of the Alt-Right

Econ Prof at George Mason University, Economic Historian, Québécois

Bassett, Brash & Hide

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Truth on the Market

Scholarly commentary on law, economics, and more

The Undercover Historian

Beatrice Cherrier's blog

Matua Kahurangi

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Temple of Sociology

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Velvet Glove, Iron Fist

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Why Evolution Is True

Why Evolution is True is a blog written by Jerry Coyne, centered on evolution and biology but also dealing with diverse topics like politics, culture, and cats.

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A rural perspective with a blue tint by Ele Ludemann

DPF's Kiwiblog - Fomenting Happy Mischief since 2003

The Dangerous Economist

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Watts Up With That?

The world's most viewed site on global warming and climate change

The Logical Place

Tim Harding's writings on rationality, informal logic and skepticism

A window into Doc Freiberger's library

The Risk-Monger

Let's examine hard decisions!

Commentary on monetary policy in the spirit of R. G. Hawtrey

Barrie Saunders

Thoughts on public policy and the media

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Politics and the economy

James Bowden's Blog

A blog (primarily) on Canadian and Commonwealth political history and institutions

Science Matters

Reading between the lines, and underneath the hype.

Economics, and such stuff as dreams are made on

A Venerable Puzzle

"The British constitution has always been puzzling, and always will be." --Queen Elizabeth II

The Antiplanner

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History of Sorts

WORLD WAR II, MUSIC, HISTORY, HOLOCAUST

Roger Pielke Jr.

Undisciplined scholar, recovering academic

Offsetting Behaviour

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JONATHAN TURLEY

Res ipsa loquitur - The thing itself speaks

Conversable Economist

In Hume’s spirit, I will attempt to serve as an ambassador from my world of economics, and help in “finding topics of conversation fit for the entertainment of rational creatures.”

The Victorian Commons

Researching the House of Commons, 1832-1868

The History of Parliament

Articles and research from the History of Parliament Trust

Reflections on books and art

Legal History Miscellany

Posts on the History of Law, Crime, and Justice

Sex, Drugs and Economics

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European Royal History

Exploring the Monarchs of Europe

Tallbloke's Talkshop

Cutting edge science you can dice with

Marginal REVOLUTION

Small Steps Toward A Much Better World

NOT A LOT OF PEOPLE KNOW THAT

“We do not believe any group of men adequate enough or wise enough to operate without scrutiny or without criticism. We know that the only way to avoid error is to detect it, that the only way to detect it is to be free to inquire. We know that in secrecy error undetected will flourish and subvert”. - J Robert Oppenheimer.