HT: Peta Mandleberg
Rock ‘n’ roll will live to the end of their days
17 Dec 2014 Leave a comment
in economics of media and culture, Music
HT: Peta Mandleberg
New Study Reveals Most Influential Languages | IFLScience
17 Dec 2014 Leave a comment
in economics of media and culture Tags: economics of language, network economics
An interactive version of this map is available on MIT’s website.
I learnt a new word today – truthiness
15 Dec 2014 Leave a comment
in economics of media and culture, liberalism
Tips for journalists and wannabe bloggers on breaking the news
15 Dec 2014 Leave a comment
in economics of media and culture
In condensed form. http://t.co/JMPwvtaQ6T—
Secret Seidler (@jonnoseidler) December 15, 2014
U2 – I think we’ll pass
13 Dec 2014 Leave a comment
Darwin Awards ‘winners’ are overwhelmingly male, analysis reveals
13 Dec 2014 Leave a comment
in economics of media and culture, health economics, liberalism, population economics, technological progress Tags: Darwin awards
- Darwin Awards is an annual review of most foolish way people have died
- Nominees improve the gene pool by eliminating themselves from the human race using foolish methods
- Scientists were surprised to discover 90% of award ‘winners’ were male
- Worthy candidates include a terrorist who opened his own letter bomb
- Another man attempted to travel by hitching a shopping trolley to a train
According to “male idiot theory” (MIT) many of the differences in risk seeking behaviour, emergency department admissions, and mortality may be explained by the observation that men are idiots and idiots do stupid things…
In addition, alcohol may play an important part in many of the events leading to a Darwin Award. It is conceivable that the sex difference is attributable to sociobehavioural differences in alcohol use.
Anecdotal data support the hypothesis that alcohol makes men feel “bulletproof” after a few drinks, and it would be naïve to rule this out.
For example, the three men who played a variation on Russian roulette alternately taking shots of alcohol and then stamping on an unexploded Cambodian land mine.
HT: dailymail.co.uk and The Darwin Awards: sex differences in idiotic behaviour | The BMJ.
Americans Have Grown More Supportive Of Torture | FiveThirtyEight
10 Dec 2014 Leave a comment
in economics of media and culture, laws of war, liberalism, war and peace Tags: interrogation techniques, terrorism, torture, war on terror
White Names vs. Black Names: Roland Fryer
08 Dec 2014 Leave a comment
in discrimination, economics of media and culture, human capital, labour economics, poverty and inequality
Creative destruction alert: Google and the collapse of US newspaper advertising revenues
08 Dec 2014 Leave a comment
Some people take grudges and feuds a bit far
06 Dec 2014 Leave a comment
in economics of media and culture Tags: funny signs
Who chooses to be a vegetarian?
06 Dec 2014 Leave a comment
in applied welfare economics, development economics, economics of media and culture, growth disasters, growth miracles, population economics, technological progress Tags: food snobs, growth disasters, growth miracles, The Great Escape, The Great Fact
Utopia, you are standing in it! 
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