D-Day: Every Half Hour
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#OTD Winston Churchill announcing Germany’s unconditional surrender
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Why Nations Fail: The Origins of Power, Prosperity and Poverty — Daron Acemoglu
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Milton Friedman 1991
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Kicked in the Crotch vs. Childbirth: The Great Debate
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How the D-Day landings shaped the world | The Economist
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We’re All Gonna Die: Climate Change Apocalypse by 2050
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Worst-case scenarios mislead far more than they enlighten.
RONALD BAILEY | 6.5.2019 Reason
Man-made climate change (now dubbed “climate crisis” by The Guardian‘s editors) poses potentially serious risks for humanity in this century. But acknowledging the hazard is not enough for a growing claque of meteorological apocalypse porn peddlers who insist that if their prescriptions for solving the problem are not followed then civilization will momentarily come to an end.
Recent hawkers of fast approaching climate doom include David Wallace-Wells in his book The Uninhabitable Earth: Life After Warming, Cumbria University professor Jem Bendell’s“Deep Adaptation” paper, and environmental activist Bill McKibben’sFalter: Has the Human Game Begun to Play Itself Out? (my review is forthcoming).
Now comes a policy paper, Existential climate-related security risk: A scenario approach, from an Australian climate action advocacy group the Breakthrough National Centre for Climate Restoration. The headline over at
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First Systematic Study Of The Advice People Would Give To Their Younger Selves
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If racially biased, there must be systematic differences in arrest rates for police initiated contacts and for public initiated contacts
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Wind Industry Victims Vindicated: Endless Noise Complaints Force Giant Wind Farm Shutdown in Ontario
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Finally, Huron County farmers driven nuts by incessant wind turbine noise have forced the shut down of their giant industrial tormentors.
Ontario’s government has been in bed with the wind industry from the beginning, ignoring, bullying and berating wind farm neighbours with the temerity to complain about the grinding, thumping cacophony dished up by these things on a daily basis. Now, finally, after years of fighting simply to be heard, Ontario’s farmers are getting a taste of what representative and responsible government might look like.
In a result that couldn’t come soon enough for the Huron County farming families forced to live with it, an Order has just been made shutting down 140 turbines near Ashfield-Colborne-Wawanosh. The order was made simply because their operator, K2 Wind can’t comply with the conditions of its planning permit or even Ontario’s (extremely lax) noise regulations. Needless to say, the local farmers’ delight is…
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The strength of social norms, broken windows theory and petty crime @sst_nz
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From The Better Angels of Our Nature, p. 124
In case D-Day failed
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Milton Friedman Speaks – Myths That Conceal Reality
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