On the economics of “Acting White”
05 Dec 2017 Leave a comment
There is much to be learned from the economics and sociology of oppositional identities.
As Roland Fryer pointed out, what is most important to the average 13-year-old is to be popular. Among some minorities, being popular and being smart are not compatible.
My analysis confirms that acting white is a vexing reality within a subset of American schools.
But Fryer also found that “In predominantly black schools, I find no evidence at all that getting good grades adversely affects students’ popularity”
Germany’s costly experiment with renewable energy
03 Dec 2017 Leave a comment
Holly Nicholas of Rebel Media notes that environmentalists love to tout Germany as the place to imitate if we want to make renewable energy mainstream, so she looks into some of the major problems they’ve encountered with their Energiewende program which is being copied in Canada.
1916 Conscription plebiscite pamphlet is still basis of Australian national security policy. New Zealand’s too. (Keep war at a distance; have a great and powerful friend).
02 Dec 2017 Leave a comment
Interactive map shows damage done by “anti-vaxxers” worldwide
01 Dec 2017 Leave a comment
A five-year study published earlier this month in the journal Social Science and Medicine states that Twitter is flourishing with anti-vaccine sentiment.
However, what is interesting is that geography, not politics, that makes a difference. FiercePharma points out researchers found tweets from users in California, Connecticut, Massachusetts, New York and Pennsylvania posted the highest number from 2009 to 2015.
No matter where they are located, anti-vaccine activists can review their handiwork first hand with an interactive map posted online by the Vaccine Alliance. The map is based on data compiled by the Council on Foreign Relations from 2008 to 2017 and shows outbreaks of preventable diseases worldwide.
Recent research suggests that recent outbreaks of diseases, like measles or smallpox, are attributed to anti-vaccine groups and the disinformation they spread. A measles outbreak in Hennepin, Minnesota among the city’s Somali Muslim community is connected to anti-vaccine groups who campaigned heavily in…
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Utopia, you are standing in it! 
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