Creeping Barrage (Military Tactic)
20 Nov 2019 Leave a comment
in defence economics, war and peace Tags: World War I
NASA Astronaut Breaks Down Space Scenes From Film & TV | WIRED
19 Nov 2019 Leave a comment
in movies, television Tags: space
Game Over: German Wind Industry In Freefall: Turbine Makers Sack Thousands in Mass Layoffs
19 Nov 2019 Leave a comment
How can this be happening if Wind power is cost competitive without subsidies
The manufacturers of turbines and solar panels are dropping like flies, as subsidies are rolled back across Europe.
So-called ‘green’ jobs are a case of easy come, easy go. The wind and solar ‘industries’ that gave birth to those jobs simply can’t survive without massive and endless subsidies, which means their days are numbered.
With the axe being taken to subsidies across the globe, their ultimate demise is a matter of when, not if.
The wind back in subsidies across Europe has all but destroyed the wind industry: in Germany this year a trifling 35 onshore wind turbines have been erected, so far.
Twelve countries in the European Union (EU) failed to install “a single wind turbine” last year.
Danish turbine maker, Vestas is on the brink and was recently forced to axe 600 of its groovy ‘green’ jobs. Its rival Siemens Gamesa, has also been forced…
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How modern families increase social inequality | The Economist
19 Nov 2019 Leave a comment
in economics of education, economics of love and marriage, human capital, labour economics, labour supply, law and economics, occupational choice, poverty and inequality Tags: assortative mating, dating market, marriage and divorce
John Cleese on Creativity
19 Nov 2019 Leave a comment
in economics of education Tags: cognitive psychology
Understanding Human Nature with Steven Pinker – Conversations with History
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Labour abandons climate change plan for net zero carbon emissions by 2030
18 Nov 2019 Leave a comment
So the plan was only virtue signalling to try and impress gullible voters, not an actual belief that the climate needs saving any time soon. Does the UK really want inadequate, unreliable and expensive electricity in perpetuity?
Labour has dropped a radical plan to end the UK’s contributions to climate change by 2030 and will stick to a target of achieving it “well before 2050”, reports The Independent via Yahoo News.
Activists passed a motion at the party’s conference in September to dramatically speed up the date for net zero carbon emissions – pushing for inclusion in the general election manifesto.
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The academic bias that dare not speak its name
18 Nov 2019 Leave a comment
in economics of education, labour economics, labour supply, Marxist economics, occupational choice, Thomas Sowell Tags: academic bias
SCHLESINGER: THE IMPERIAL HISTORIAN by Richard Aldous
18 Nov 2019 Leave a comment
(President John F. Kennedy and Arthur M. Schlesinger)
According to the Merriam-Webster dictionary a “gadfly” is “a person who stimulates or annoys other people especially by persistent criticism.” According to Richard Aldous, in his new biography, SCHLESINGER: THE IMPERIAL HISTORIAN, the definition fits Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr.’s role as Special Assistant to the President during the Kennedy administration. Aldous’ work is the first full-length biography of Schlesinger and he successfully grapples with a number of questions as his narrative unfolds. First, was Schlesinger a great and important historian, a model of how academics and public service can mix? Second, was he a popularizer and court historian held captive to the establishment that nurtured his career? After reading Aldous’ monograph there is no conclusive answer and elements of each question make up Schlesinger’s academic career at Harvard, as well as a speech writer and advisor to President Kennedy. However…
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BBC abandons independent verification in reporting on Gaza casualties
18 Nov 2019 Leave a comment
As long-time readers will be aware, during Operation Protective Edge in 2014 the BBC failed to independently verify casualty figures and civilian-combatant casualty ratios provided by the Hamas-run health ministry in the Gaza Strip. Instead, its coverage during and since that conflict was based on data obtained from partial sources which it promoted to audiences without fact-checking.
Since then BBC journalists appear to have ceased trying to independently verify information provided by a terrorist organisation and instead adopt a qualifying ‘he said-she said’ approach which includes describing all Gaza Strip casualties as “Palestinians”, regardless of whether or not they belonged to terror groups.
Here are some examples from the first two days of BBC reporting on the recent events in Israel and the Gaza Strip. [emphasis in bold added]
November 12th 2019, BBC News website, ‘Israel kills top Palestinian Islamic Jihad militant in Gaza’:
“Israeli aircraft also…
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