Galaxy Quest (7/9) Movie CLIP – Beaming Up a Pig Lizard (1999)
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Astrid Kunze – Why do women fall behind men
26 Apr 2019 Leave a comment
in discrimination, economics of education, gender, human capital, labour economics, labour supply, occupational choice, poverty and inequality Tags: gender wage gap
So we men, misogynist bastards all, aren’t to blame after all @women_nz @julieannegenter
26 Apr 2019 Leave a comment
The Football war (1969)
26 Apr 2019 Leave a comment
in defence economics, development economics, economic history, sports economics, war and peace
Locke, Berkeley, & Empiricism: Crash Course Philosophy #6
25 Apr 2019 Leave a comment
in economics of media and culture Tags: conjecture and refutation, philosophy of science
Tank Development in World War 1 I THE GREAT WAR Special
25 Apr 2019 Leave a comment
in defence economics, war and peace Tags: World War I
IZA World of Labor – Economic inequality
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in discrimination, economics of education, human capital, labour economics, labour supply, minimum wage, occupational choice, poverty and inequality
Trumping Turbines: Five Good Reasons to Hate Heavily Subsidised & Chaotically Intermittent Wind Power
25 Apr 2019 Leave a comment
You don’t have to be a genius to work out that wind power is the greatest environmental and economic fraud of all time. President of the United States of America, Donald J Trump has been railing about it for years. And he keeps doing so. Much to the disgust and horror of his many detractors. Much of their anger relates to the fact that they have a hard time proving him wrong.
Twitter jockeys had a field day when Trump suggested that wind turbines cause cancer.
Well, it depends what you mean by ‘cause’.
An Australian Court found long-term exposure to wind turbine noise to be a pathway to disease: Australian Court Finds Wind Turbine Noise Exposure a ‘Pathway to Disease’: Waubra Foundation Vindicated
Based on a raft of expert medical and acoustic evidence the court held that that the “noise annoyance” caused by wind turbine generated low-frequency noise and infrasound…
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Real-Time Relief: A Closer Look at Walmart’s Response to Disaster
25 Apr 2019 Leave a comment
in economics of natural disasters, entrepreneurship, industrial organisation, survivor principle
The Cult of Greta Thunberg
25 Apr 2019 Leave a comment
Partial reblog as Brendan O’Neill at Spiked Online gets stuck into the enviro-mentalists.
It actually makes sense that Ms Thunberg – a wildly celebrated 16-year-old Swede who founded the climate-strike movement for schoolkids – should sound cultish. Because climate-change alarmism is becoming ever stranger, borderline religious, obsessed with doomsday prophecies. Consider Extinction Rebellion, the latest manifestation of the upper-middle classes’ contempt for industrialisation and progress. It is at times indistinguishable from old fundamentalist movements that warned mankind of the coming End of Days. I followed Extinction Rebellion from Parliament Square to Marble Arch yesterday and what I witnessed was a public display of millenarian fear and bourgeois depression. People did dances of death and waved placards warning of the heat-death of the planet. It felt deeply unnerving.
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Polling marijuana
25 Apr 2019 Leave a comment
I think the referendum for full legalisation will lose.
There was an interesting new poll out the other day on public attitudes to marijuana and the possibility of law reform (on which there is to be a referendum at the time of next year’s election). The results certainly took me by surprise.
For the record, I don’t have very strong views on the law around marijuana. A couple of years ago I’d got to the point where I’d probably have voted for full liberalisation, but since then I’ve swung back somewhat in the other direction (influenced in part by reviews of and extracts from this recent book, a copy of which I’m expecting in the mail any day now). In an up/down vote today I’d probably vote against full liberalisation, but as to how I will actually vote next year, a lot might depend on the specific question. One thing I really don’t like is a law on…
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On this date in History: April 24, 1558, the marriage of Mary I, Queen of Scots and The Dauphin of France.
25 Apr 2019 Leave a comment
Mary was born on December 8, 1542 at Linlithgow Palace, Scotland, to King James V of Scots and his French second wife, Marie de Guise. Mary was said to have been born prematurely and was the only legitimate child of James V to survive him She was the great-niece of King Henry VIII of England, as her paternal grandmother, Margaret Tudor, was Henry VIII’s sister. On December 14, 1542 six days after her birth, she became Queen of Scotland when her father died from drinking contaminated water while on campaign following the Battle of Solway Moss.
Mary I, Queen of Scots
Since Mary was an infant when she inherited the throne, Scotland was ruled by regents until she became an adult. From the outset, there were two claims to the regency: one from Catholic Cardinal Beaton, and the other from the Protestant Earl of Arran, who was next in line…
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