The dead will be many from #COVID19’s 40% cut in new medical staff
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in economics of bureaucracy, economics of education, health economics, human capital, labour economics, labour supply, politics - New Zealand, Public Choice Tags: economics of immigration, economics of pandemics, The fatal conceit, unintended consequences
Unintended consequences #COVID19
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in health economics, law and economics, politics - New Zealand, property rights Tags: economics of pandemics, economics of privacy, unintended consequences
#JacindaGap #COVID19 #OTD
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in health economics, politics - New Zealand Tags: economics of pandemics
Interesting OIA reply on Boochani
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in Economics of international refugee law, International law, law and economics, politics - New Zealand Tags: economics of migration
Decoding the Gender Matrix | with Helen Joyce
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in discrimination, economics of crime, health economics, law and economics, Marxist economics, politics - Australia, politics - New Zealand, politics - USA, property rights Tags: political correctness, regressive left
Modeling the huddling behavior of Emperor penguins: everybody gets equal warmth
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Every winter (spring in the Northern Hemisphere), after having produced a chick, female Emperor penguins (Aptenodytes forsteri) head off to sea for two months to fatten up, while the males stay behind, foodless for over 100 days, to tend the chicks. (The males get their turn to eat later, but often walk about 100 km to get to the water.) With air temperatures as low as -40° C (same in Fahrenheit), and the winds blowing as hard as 140 kph (90 mph), it gets deadly cold. And that’s when the penguins huddle together for warmth.
Here’s a short PBS video of penguin huddles. Note the constant shifting of the birds.
And the huddle really keeps them warm. A 2012 paper in PLOS ONE (screenshot below, pdf here, reference at bottom) reported that the temperature inside the huddle can reach 20°C-37.5°C (68°F-100°F). Individuals outside the huddle, exposed to…
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VICE: Why veganism is racist
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I found this article, from VICE, mentioned in a public tweet from activist and atheist Ali Rizvi, who was aping the “first they came from the bird names. . ” craziness. This time, though, it’s not bird names, but veganism.
I suppose that anything these days can be found racist, like knitting and young adult fiction, not to mention bird names, but the idea that veganism was inherently white was alien to me. Perhaps that’s because I live in Chicago, which has a fair number of vegan restaurants run by African-Americans (many Black Muslims are either vegan or vegetarians). And a well known vegan retaurant run by blacks, B’Gabs, is just a few blocks from me. The fact that veganism is seen as “white people’s culture”, then, surprised me. But Anya Zoledziowski, who is of Polish Armenian descent, and identifies as a privileged European, has seen fit to chide…
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#globalwarming #climateemergency @greenpeaceusa @AOC @JoeBiden @BernieSanders @Greens
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in energy economics, environmental economics, global warming, politics - USA Tags: 2020 presidential election, nuclear power, solar power, The fatal conceit, wind power
Law Enforcement Officials and the Limits of Violence in Medieval England
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Posted by Sara M. Butler, 18 August 2020.
Towards the end of the fifteenth century, William Hemyng, a chaplain associated with Hereford cathedral, experienced a harrowing ordeal. Richard Rollesden, undersheriff to Thomas Parker, the county sheriff, stole 21 marks of goods and chattels from a local gentleman, then pinned the crime on Hemyng, whom he arrested and indicted by means of a jury fraudulently empaneled with jurors he had bribed. Hemyng’s time in prison was truly horrific. He tells us that they
sette a pon hym a peyre of grete gyves and boltys of iron to importable to bere and bolted his armes the space of a yerde frome other and then leyde hym yn a peyre of stockys in a depe pytte and with all this peyn ther hongyd hym frome the grounde and kepte hym frome mete and drynke and frome his frendys
(set upon him a…
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The Last Ditch Attempt to Save the USSR – August Coup of 1991 #OTD
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in comparative institutional analysis, constitutional political economy, economic history, economics of bureaucracy, law and economics, Marxist economics, Public Choice Tags: fall of communism
The Luftwaffe and Barbarossa, Part II – No Longer Masters of the Sky – WW2 Special
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in defence economics, war and peace Tags: World War II
The V-2 Rocket (A 4) – How Effective was it?
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in defence economics, war and peace Tags: World War II
Evolution FAILS in the Human Body
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in economics of education, economics of media and culture Tags: evolution
Crime, Violence, and Progress With Steven Pinker (Ep.9)
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in development economics, discrimination, economic history, economics of crime, economics of education, gender, growth miracles, health economics, human capital, labour economics, labour supply, law and economics, minimum wage, occupational choice, poverty and inequality Tags: crime and punishment, law and order, pessimism bias, political correctness, racial discrimination, regressive left, The Great Enrichment
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