The Science Behind How the Body Clears #COVID19 | @WSJ
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in health economics Tags: economics of pandemics
Angus Deaton’s The Great Escape channels P.T. Bauer
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in comparative institutional analysis, constitutional political economy, development economics, economic history, economics of bureaucracy, growth disasters, growth miracles, income redistribution, law and economics, P.T. Bauer, property rights, Public Choice, public economics, rentseeking Tags: ODA, offsetting behaviour, The fatal conceit, The Great Enrichment, The Great Escape, unintended consequences
Fugitive Detective Reviews Manhunt Scenes, from ‘Joker’ to ‘Thelma & Louise’ | @VanityFair
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Jordan Peterson – Inside the Marxist Worldview
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in economic history, economics of education, Marxist economics
My Favorite Crown #1: The Imperial State Crown of the United Kingdom.
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The Imperial State Crown is one of the Crown Jewels of the United Kingdom and symbolises the sovereignty of the monarch.
Queen Victoria wearing the 1838 Imperial State Crown with the Stuart Sapphire in the front.
It has existed in various forms since the 15th century. The current version was made in 1937 and is worn by the monarch after a coronation (St Edward’s Crown having been used to crown the monarch) and used at the State Openings of Parliament.
The crown is adorned with 2,901 precious stones, including the Cullinan II diamond, St Edward’s Sapphire, the Stuart Sapphire, and the Black Prince’s Ruby.
History
Origin
St Edward’s Crown, used to crown English monarchs, was considered to be a holy relic, kept in the saint’s shrine at Westminster Abbey and therefore not worn by monarchs at any other time. Instead, a “great crown” with crosses and fleurs-de-lis, but without arches (an…
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Wrecking Ball: Crippling Cost of Australia’s Obsession With Subsidised & Unreliable Wind & Solar
06 Jul 2020 Leave a comment
Australians are experiencing their first recession in nearly 30 years; its ruinous renewable energy policies are only adding insult to injury.
Australia’s energy market is a shambles – thanks to the $60 billion squandered on intermittent wind and solar, it was already in the midst of a power pricing and supply calamity, with disastrous consequences for energy hungry businesses such as manufacturing and mineral processing.
At the heart of the debacle is politics.
The May 2019 election was billed as a referendum on Climate Change. Labor’s then leader, Bill Shorten pitched up a 50% Renewable Energy Target and a whopping carbon dioxide gas tax, to boot. Bill also promised that he would eradicate Australia’s frequent and punishing droughts, with the aid of windmills and solar panels. Although no one, save Bill, was quite sure how this novel and ingenious ‘plan’ would make it rain on cue.
Having lost…
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WOKE Utopia
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in law and economics, politics - Australia, politics - New Zealand, politics - USA Tags: political correctness, regressive left
Why Is It So Hard to Let Go of Grudges?
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in health economics Tags: cognitive psychology, evolutionary psychology
Homicide Detective Fact Checks Crime Scenes from ‘Breaking Bad’ to ‘CSI’ | @VanityFair
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How did NASA get those great film shots of Apollo and the Shuttle?
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in television Tags: space
But @Greens dropped anti-immigration stance only because of @PaulineHansonOz – a fellow economic nationalist
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in applied price theory, international economics, International law, labour economics, labour supply, politics - Australia, Public Choice, public economics Tags: economics of immigration, regressive left
Pinker on Rubin, and a meta-review of his critics
06 Jul 2020 Leave a comment
After years of Dave Rubin trying to get Steve Pinker on his show, he’s finally succeeded. Here’s the first part of their interview: a 34-minute discussion of Pinker’s background, his secular Judaism, blank-slateism, sex differences in preference and behavior (he mentions the Larry Summers and James Damore affairs), whether some scientific scientific questions should be off limits, identity politics, free speech on campus, whether campus censorship helped elect Trump (Pinker says “yes), and the distortion of his views by the Regressive Left. (Part 2, which deals with his new book Enlightenment Now, is here, and the full hour-long interview, which I haven’t yet seen but will, is here). Although some will say that this is Rubin simply interviewing another “alt-righter”, Pinker’s words dispel that characterization. Here he calls himself a “centrist,” though I see him as a classical liberal. He certainly has no kind words for Trump and…
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