Former NASA Astronaut Explains How Hygiene Is Different in Space | WIRED
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DS9 Quark intends to defend his bar (The Way of the Warrior)
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Johnny Sack And Tony Talks About Carmine Lupertazzi – The Sopranos
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David Friedman – Hidden Order: The Economics of Everyday Life
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in applied price theory, applied welfare economics, comparative institutional analysis, constitutional political economy, David Friedman, defence economics, economic history, law and economics, property rights Tags: anarchocapitalism
Kramer’s reaction to Jerry being thin, late 30s, single and neat
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How many days a year did people work in England before the Industrial Revolution?
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By Judy Stephenson (University College London)
The full paper that inspired this blog post will be published on The Economic History Review and is currently available on early view here
St Paul’s Cathedral – the construction of the Dome. Available at <https://www.explore-stpauls.net/oct03/textMM/DomeConstructionN.htm>
How many days a year did people work in England before the Industrial Revolution? For those who don’t spend their waking hours desperate for sources to inform wages and GDP per capita over seven centuries, this question provokes an agreeable discussion about artisans, agriculture and tradition. Someone will mention EP Thompson and clocks or Saint Mondays. ‘Really that few?’ It’s quaint.
But, for those of us who do spend our waking hours desperate for sources to inform wages and GDP per capita over seven centuries the question has evolved in the last few years into a debate about productivity and when modern economic growth began in…
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Book Review: The Retreat of Western Liberalism
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In the aftermath of the election of Donald Trump as US president a cartoon in The New Yorker (by @WillMcPhail and shown above) went viral. It shows passengers on a plane voting to replace the smug, out of touch pilot with a regular passenger, more like us.
The cartoon is fantastic, the type of thing that a political scientist like me could use as the basis for an in-depth discussion of the challenges of expertise and democracy in a 3-hour graduate seminar. But if you aren’t enrolled in a graduate course on contemporary politics, you are in luck.
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Climate Politics as Manichean Paranoia – Roger Pielke Jr The GWPF, July 2017
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in economics of information, energy economics, environmental economics, global warming, politics - Australia, politics - New Zealand, politics - USA, Public Choice Tags: climate alarmists, regressive left
Review of The Uninhabitable Earth in the FT
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I review The Uninhabitable Earth by David Wallace-Wells in The Financial Times this weekend. Here is how it starts:
In 1842 the German writer Heinrich Heine cautioned that “wild, dark times are rumbling toward us, and the prophet who wishes to write a new apocalypse will have to invent new beasts” in order to capture our attention. In his book The Uninhabitable Earth, David Wallace-Wells describes a new apocalypse accompanied not by four horsemen but by 12 “elements of climate chaos”.
The book expands on Wallace-Wells’ widely read New York Magazine article of the same title from the summer of 2017. That article, and the book, briefly catalogue a litany of calamities now and in the future that might be associated with climate change — disease, disasters, war and more.
Read the whole thing here.
Interview on Extreme Weather & Climate Change
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https://soundcloud.com/980cjme_650ckom/gormley-measuring-extreme-weather-june-11
Last week, Prof. Ross McKitrick wrote an op-ed for the Financial Post (Canada) about my experiences in the climate debates. It’s pretty good.
Based on that I was invited to discuss extreme weather and climate change on the @JohnGormleyShow – Canadian talk radio. It was fun. You can listen to the interview above – comments welcomed.
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