If the experts spoke honestly about the costs and benefits of government programs
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in applied welfare economics, economics of information, environmental economics, health and safety, health economics Tags: child safety, road safety
This Acapella of ‘Wouldn’t It Be Nice’ by the Beach Boys is a Master Class in Harmony
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Earth and Universe As Never Seen Before
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This is an introduction to amazing graphics done by Eleanor Lutz (no relation) at her website Tabletop Whale, an original science illustration blog. Above is a data-based view of Earth’s seasons. If you watch in full screen, the four corners show views of the cycle from top, bottom, and sides. Below is her map of the solar system, showing how much scientific information is represented in the illustration (H/T Real Clear Science)
An Orbit Map of the Solar System
JUNE 10 2019 · Link to the Open-Source Code
This week’s map shows the orbits of more than 18000 asteroids in the solar system. This includes everything we know of that’s over 10km in diameter – about 10000 asteroids – as well as 8000 randomized objects of unknown size. This map shows each asteroid at its exact position on New Years’ Eve 1999.
All of the data for this…
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Governing well, or just slowly making us poorer?
15 Jun 2019 Leave a comment
I noticed in the Herald this morning Audrey Young’s article running the line that (a) it had been a good – in fact, exceptional – week for the government, which had (she claimed) been governing well, and (b) that one example of this was yesterday’s reopening of the Wairoa-Napier railway line. There was a celebratory article on the reopening in this morning’s Dominion-Post, which might better have been labelled as advertorial, and could easily have been taken straight from Shane Jones’s press secretaries. It was, after all, only reopened with the (as yet) rather small amount of the Provincial Growth Fund that has actually been spent. For this particular project, $6.2 million of taxpayers’ money, given to a loss-making SOE that, even running losses, had not itself considered the project viable.
This project was first announced in February 2018 and then I wrote a post about it, under…
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