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“This is the true joy in life, the being used for a purpose recognized by yourself as a mighty one; the being thoroughly worn out before you are thrown on the scrap heap; the being a force of Nature instead of a feverish selfish little clod of ailments and grievances complaining that the world will [...] From the latest edition of Nature: The findings could help researchers to improve their understanding of the fluctuations in solar activity that can, at their peak, scramble electricity grids and throw Global-Positioning-System devices off by dozens of metres. Yikes! Sounds dangerous, considering all the devices that rely on GPS. Note that coronal mass ejections, a type of [...] I often don’t like these kinds of productions, but this rap video is awesome. From Bill Easterly’s blog post: …extreme dissatisfaction with aid agencies who ignore even the most obvious signs that some aid effort is not working. (Example cited in the Brookings book: a World Bank computer kiosk program in India celebrated as a “success” in its “Empowerment” sourcebook. Except that the computers sat in places without functioning electricty or Internet [...] 1. Bill Easterly: Nobody wants your old shoes: How not to help in Haiti 2. New York Times: Big Benefits Are Seen From Eating Less Salt 3. Tyler Cowen and The Economist / Free Exchange: The end of Haiti? Lord Acton has received empirical verification. Power does corrupt, according to a very interesting article from The Economist. (HT: Stephanie) I wonder if people who call for government intervention in our lives will take anything away from these experiments. Too often, people who want government intervention (in particular, liberals) claim that markets don’t always produce the [...] …one in which politicians think that they are (and often are) above the law, and one in which others have to play by basic moral rules, or at least they should have to. Next week will feature the release of a book by Andrew Young, a former staffer for John Edwards, former senator from North Carolina [...] This is remarkable: In 1995, a Swiss researcher showed why pheromones are so important in humans, too. He had women sniff t-shirts worn by men, and asked which smelled best. The results were startling: the women did not choose randomly, which was discovered by comparing the DNA of the women and men. Instead, women overwhelmingly picked [...] You may now follow me on Twitter. |
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