Air Traffic Controller of USAirways Flight 1549 Hudson River Landing “the Lowest Low I’ve Ever Felt”
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in transport economics Tags: air accidents
SULLY VIDEO : Airline Pilot Explains
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in transport economics Tags: air accidents
Public Opinion for Libertarians – Bryan Caplan (2010)
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in comparative institutional analysis, constitutional political economy, economics of education, economics of information, economics of regulation, energy economics, environmental economics, industrial organisation, labour economics, law and economics, poverty and inequality, Public Choice, public economics Tags: anti-foreign bias, anti-market bias, make-work bias, pessimism bias, rational irrationality
Over 1200 research grants awarded to discover we are flawed and the prissy and self-righteous are more likely to be shameless hypocrites
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in economics of media and culture Tags: moral psychology
People Power: German Professors Lead 1,000 Anti-Wind Industry Groups in Assault on Toxic Wind Power
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Who would have thought locals would revolt?
Overrun by 30,000 wind turbines, rural Germans are on the brink of revolt, with over 1,000 groups determined to win back their heartland.
Dwarfed by 200m, 300 tonne behemoths, driven mad by practically incessant low-frequency noise and infrasound, or driven from their homes, tens of thousands of Germans have had enough.
One of the largest and best organised of Germany’s community defenders is Vernunftkraft, a group headed up by ecologists, engineers and economists, many of whom are professors tenured at Germany’s universities. These people are organised; these people are angry.
Here’s No Tricks Zone reporting on Germany’s brewing anti-wind industry backlash.
Swiss Daily NZZ: More Than 1000 Citizen Wind Energy Protest Groups …Germany “On Path To The Unknown”
No Tricks Zone
Pierre Gosselin
15 January 2019
Although resistance to littering the landscape with industrial wind turbines continues to grow…
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The Assassination of British Prime Minister Spencer Perceval
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Trends in male height over the 20th century in 200 countries
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in development economics, economic history, health economics Tags: The Great Escape
Malnourishment of Chinese urban and rural children since 1990
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in development economics, economic history, growth miracles, health economics Tags: child poverty, China, extreme poverty
Saudi teen who fled family says freedom was worth risking her life
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in discrimination, economics of crime, gender, International law, law and economics Tags: economics of immigration
Day 20 of @EugenieSage’s #plasticbagfascism: 10th plastic bag
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Air Conditioners: Coolest Idea Ever
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in economic history, entrepreneurship Tags: The Great Enrichment
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