#COVID19 strands Chilean leftist in Cuba, pleads for help to escape
31 Jul 2020 Leave a comment
in development economics, growth disasters, Marxist economics Tags: Cuba, useful idiot
The Truth About Crime, Race, and Policing in America
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in economics of crime, law and economics, politics - USA Tags: crime and punishment, criminal deterrence, law and order, political correctness, racial discrimination, regressive left
Peaceful riots
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in economics of crime, law and economics, politics - USA Tags: law and order, regressive left
Operation Barbarossa – How much Intelligence do you need? – WW2 Special
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in defence economics, war and peace Tags: World War II
Every billionaire is a failure says @AOC
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in economic history, economics of love and marriage, entrepreneurship, financial economics, human capital, industrial organisation, labour economics, labour supply, law and economics, Marxist economics, occupational choice, politics - USA, poverty and inequality, survivor principle Tags: envy, regressive left, top 1%
John McWhorter on the Harper’s letter
31 Jul 2020 Leave a comment
Linguist John McWhorter doesn’t go along with the prescribed narrative of Critical Race Theory, and as an African-American he’s received his share of opprobrium for that. He mentions the pushback in his new piece in Quillette (click on screenshot), but characterizes it as coming with the territory, and sometimes even useful. More important, McWhorter explains why he signed the “letter on justice and open debate” in Harper’s (and four other international publications) decrying “cancel culture.” His publishing this in Quillette will, of course, earn him extra demon points, as Quillette is mistakenly regarded—and called—an “alt right” site by the Offense Crowd.
Below I give a few links to essays that decried the Harper’s letter, mostly because, as McWhorter says, they misunderstood the letter as showing that the signers were “merely whiners—people with impregnable career success, flustered that social media is forcing us to experience unprecedented criticism, particularly in…
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New report: Bacteria can remain alive for over 100 million years!
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Well cut off my legs and call me Shorty (is that ableist?). A new report in the journal Nature Communications shows that some bacteria can remain dormant for over 100 million years in marine sediments—an unbelievable amount of time for an organism to remain “alive”—if you call it “alive.” I do: after all, the bacteria collected and revived by the researchers retained their ability to metabolize, take up labeled organic substances, and reproduce. Dormancy, to me, at least, is not the same thing as “death”.
Click the screenshot to read the paper (the pdf is here and the full reference is at the bottom).
The experiment was laborious yet the results are simple. If you want to know the gory details, the paper is there for your reading.
In short, the authors sampled clay sediments of different ages from the South Pacific Gyre, and did so in a…
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Chilling Out On Climate With Bjorn Lomborg | GoodFellows: Conversations From The Hoover Institution
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in development economics, economic history, economics of education, economics of regulation, energy economics, environmental economics, global warming, Marxist economics, politics - USA Tags: climate alarmists, pessimism bias, political correctness, regressive left
Why North Dakota Wasn’t Technically a State Until 2012
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in politics - USA Tags: constitutional law
Asteroid Impact – Could we save the Earth in time?
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in defence economics Tags: space
Jordan Peterson’s Masterclass on Demolishing Identity Politics
30 Jul 2020 Leave a comment
in economics of education, law and economics, Marxist economics, politics - Australia, politics - New Zealand, politics - USA Tags: pessimism bias, philosophy of science, political correctness, regressive left
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