Not PC: NZ Music Month: ‘Dies Irae’

Sunday, 20 May 2012

NZ Music Month: ‘Dies Irae’

Music by Mozart, performance by Auckland Choral Society with the APO.

(Another one-NZ-music-post-per-day for NZ Music Month.)

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Geoffrey Miller: Trump victory could spark New Zealand rethink at APEC in Peru - Donald Trump’s sweeping election victory has set the stage for this year’s APEC summit in Peru. At least 14 leaders have so far confirmed their attendance ...
Alex Nowrasteh's Deep Dives

The Best Political Argument for More Immigration Restrictions Just Failed - Donald Trump Proved It Wrong
The Kerrant

Trump’s Path Back: How Shifting Politics and Powerful Voices Reshaped the Election - As we reflect on the recent election, it’s hard to ignore the signals that former President Obama gave, albeit subtly, during the primaries. In his state...
Bowalley Road (Chris Trotter)

This One's Just For You, Martyn. - *Hard Hat & A Hammer* *Alan Jackson* *Video courtesy of YouTube* *Posted on Bowalley Road on Thursday, 7 November 2024.*
Libertarian Land

The Lesson from Oregon: Drug Decriminalization is a Partial Solution, at Best - By Jeffrey Miron, Jonah Karafiol, and Jacob Winter
Leaving Groupthink, Inc.

Us Against ‘Those People’ - How shady political operatives use unwanted identities to manipulate and control their supporters.
Science For Everyone

Being a Scholar in Trumpian times - Some thoughts about doing the right thing as an academic in an autocracy
The Tracinski Letter

Trump Without Guardrails - The American people have voted for Donald Trump again, this time by a decisive margin and with no excuses, after plenty of evidence about exactly who and w...
Israel Institute of NZ

IINZ reports MFAT to Police; MFAT complains about IINZ - You might remember an Auckland character named Penny Bright. She was infamous for refusing to pay Auckland rates for eleven years (11 YEARS!). Her steadfas...
The Free Market Futurist

The Birth of the “Progress Movement” - I have a long tradition on Election Day of writing about anything except the election.
Notes On Liberty

Taxes, Tariffs, Tardy Tallying, and Thanksgiving Truce - November’s Challenge to Bridge America’s Divide
Macroscience

Metascience 101 - EP9: "How to Get Involved" - IN THIS EPISODE: Professor Heidi Williams, Professor Paul Niehaus, and Matt Clancy walk through academic, non-profit and private sector paths to research, ...
Fictionosophy

Speaker for the Dead by Orson Scott Card - Speaker for the Dead uses some bizarre sci-fi concepts to explore important moral issues—hitting the nail on the head on some, but muddying the waters on o...
Premise Check (Billy Beck)

It’s Election Day, 2024 - 2:28 AM EDT —
Cremieux Recueil

American Elections Are Unfair - Unfortunately, unfairness is baked in
The Truth Fairy

The Kindergarten Intifada - The national effort to indoctrinate American children against Israel
Punishingly Haimona

When Writing About The 'Right Topic' Is Wrong - The booming market for US Election hot takes is a double edged sword for non-US experts and pundits.
Museum Street (Henry Cooke)

Six questions the US election is about to answer - And two more it won't right away.
Building the Builders

Fantastic Builders and Where to Find Them, 3rd installment - “Every day I touched 50 faces” (Estée Lauder)
Conflicted

Unhinged - The the self serving machine of climate change advocacy, climate anxiety, and climate litigation
The Cultural Futurist (Rachel Haywire)

15 Band Ideas for the Future - An Interruption from the Election Chaos
One Useful Thing

The Present Future: AI's Impact Long Before Superintelligence - You can start to see the outlines of an AI future, for better and worse
The Upheaval

Machine Antihumanism and the Inversion of Family Law - An essay by Jeff Shafer
Stats Chat

Top 14 Predictions for Round 10 - Team Ratings for Round 10 The basic method is described on my Department home page. Here are the team ratings prior to this week’s games, along with the ...
A life just as ordinary

Herevana – #203 – Wilderness Rolling Meadows - Here we have a Wilderness Brewing Wilderness Rolling Meadows. IT’s be rare for a Wilderness beer not to be really enjoyable, and so a BA peach apricot affa...
Thinking Directions

Further Thoughts on “Motivation by Love” - I was recently interviewed on the Yaron Brook Show on the topic of “Motivation by Love.” The main point of the interview is that it’s important to go dee...
Anarchonomicon (CatGirl Kulak)

Short Take: On The Anti-Oracles and Their Counterparts - The existence of Leftism is actually a shocking epistemic revelation.
Science+Story

The 'Opposite of Marketing' Isn't Research Communications - Why media-centric communications makes us all bad actors.
Forbidden Science

Why the public should not “believe in science” - Instead, we should publicly and freely discuss it
Eat More Electrons

[Weekend read] Clean Energy in Africa has a Dirty Image Problem - A lot of the energy and climate world seems stuck using images that are tired clichés, in poor taste, or even straight-up racist.
Plain Sight

Losing- but finding – my sporting religion - "I would still go to the pub of rugby, or more often the televised off-licence, but what was on offer was increasingly the sporting equivalent of Speights....
The Scholar's Stage

Republican Debates on China: A Political Compass for Potential Trump Appointees - A Preliminary Taxonomy
The China Space Monitor

China's International Space Efforts - Plus another Thousand Sails launch 🛰️ More satellite direct-to-device news 📱 and BYD getting involved in astronaut transit 🧑🏻‍🚀
Institute for Progress

Institute for Progress (IFP) — October 2024 Update - Hope you all have been enjoying the beginning of fall and the end of conference season (at least for the IFP team).
Texas Institute for Property Rights

All Men are Created Equal: Shattering Paradigms Book 1 - In 1857, Samuel Dawson, the son of a slaveholder, befriends Will, a slave boy. The parents of the two twelve-year The post All Men are Created Equal: Sha...
The Redneck Intellectual by C. Bradley Thompson

The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly (No. 74) - Untimely Thoughts on a World in Transition
Market Urbanism

A Case for Urban Renewal - Is it even possible today to write a vigorous argument in favor of the urban renewal policies of the 1950s? I doubt it. Jeanne Lowe's 1967 "Cities in a R...
Asymmetric Information

Your average wombat is probably smarter🍋 - World Wombat Day gave me the excuse to review the new Apple Intelligence
Kibao

Who In Africa is Ready for EVs? - New data shows a continent divided into emulators, innovators, and stragglers
What You Can Do For Liberty

What If It Turns Out You Were Important? - Nobody makes a greater mistake than he who does nothing because he could do only a little. — Edmund Burke
visa's voltaic verses ⚡️

straight outta tartarus - in search of the inner sanctums
Peter Winsley

Therapeutic and generative benefits from poetry and music - In a 2016 paper I explored why Shakespeare is important for young people. Shakespeare’s works are immortal because successive generations have treasured hi...
Too Clever By Half

Spam in bulk? No problem! - Only you can prevent comment pollution. src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjaz_BXQIxwDTRsTl-GKrX6-I8Bb1wpBwSxqf3Jpj6oKLLccQZ1Gm...
Armas

The Hard Country: The River and the Line. - Chapter 2 of the book is out!
Croaking Cassandra

Pretty (il)legal - The title of this post was, of course, a reference to the efforts of former Minister of Finance and National campaign manager Steven Joyce to defend the us...
The Roots of Progress

Big tech transitions are slow - With implications for AI
HardmoneyJim

"A Black Hole in Economics" is now available on Amazon.com - Thank you for your patience! This book project was nearly two years in the making, and I’m pleased with the result.
Lindsay Mitchell

Needless attack on government directive by public health academics - In September 2024 the government issued a directive to government agencies not to prioritise services on the basis of race. Shortly after, a group of pub...
Existential Crunch

The consequences of large-scale blackouts - What happens to a society when the lights go out?
Thoughts from the North (Garry Judd KC)

A student should not be forced to learn about tikanga to be a lawyer - My oral submission to the Regulation Review Committee
Tross Publishing

AN INSPIRING STORY OF COURAGE - By John McLean On 10th September, 2024, the death occurred of Dale Collett, a hero of the Rhodesian Bush War and an inspiration for all those who suffer ...
Houston Strategies

A simple solution to help Houston traffic, our tax-debt-spend problem, HSR bankrupted Japan, Austin builds towards affordability, METRO comedy! - Just a few small items this week:Charles Blain in City Journal: Saddled With Taxes and Debt - Houston-area leadership is losing touch with the fiscal restr...
Theatreview

Commennt posted to There Used to Be Magic, Once - Jennifer O’Sullivan October 17th, 2024 Kia ora John, and thank you for coming along to the festival again! Context for the following: I’m on the board of t...
The 13th Floor

Mousey And The Dreams Of Our Mothers’ Mothers: 13th Floor MusicTalk Interview - Mousey is the nom-de-plum of Christchurch-based artist Sarena Close and she is just about to release her very personal third album, The Dreams Of Our Mot...
Austin Vernon's Substack

Human Driving Increases Transportation Cost 10x - Why ground transportation still has a lot of legs.
Martini Mandate

Marxists, Beards and Follies - Sri Lanka has elected a Marxist president. He is described as a neo Marxist, which is what you call a revolutionary who’s shaved his beard. The problem i...
647 Reasons Why

DAYS 1-3 - 90 Mile Beach - Days 1-3 of my trek across the entire length of New Zealand
The Logical Place

Socialism in the 21st Century: A Regressive Ideology in Modern Times - Socialism, once hailed as a visionary and revolutionary alternative to capitalism, has deep roots in the progressive movements of the 19th and early 20th c...
Cranmer’s Substack

HMNZS MANAWANUI - Details are already starting to emerge of the frantic rescue efforts that saved the crew of the stricken vessel on Saturday evening and which continued unt...
M.M.E.F. News

MMEF Events for 2025 and Your Voices Please - *Kia Ora Koutou MMEF Supporters,* What an eventful 2024! The AMI 3-6 Diploma tauira graduated in August, and their joy was palpable! Completing an ...
Barrie Saunders

Answer is no Brian - Is New Zealand’s retirement strategy sustainable?
Age of Invention, by Anton Howes

Age of Invention: The Coal Conquest - There was no shortage of trees
Craig Biddle

Conceptual Fallacies and How to Avoid Them - Logical fallacies are not the only errors that retard thinking. Conceptual fallacies do, too, and often in subtler, more destructive ways. Just as logica...
Grandmotherly Wisdom

Living in the Parent Ghetto - Despite my sincere efforts, I have become one of Those Moms Who Only Hang Out With Other Moms
Ruxandra’s Substack

I should have been braver - On the Letby case and its flaws. And why I should have spoken publicly more, earlier.
Let Grow

Kristen Bell & Dax Shepard Let Their Kids “Free-Range” for 7 Hours! - [image: Kristen Hands Up] Kristen Bell and hubby Dax Shepard went to Copenhagen and let their kids "Free-Range" -- yep, that's the term Kristen uses -- for...
Rosie Campbell

AI’s dangerous capabilities: Are we measuring the wrong thing? - Dangerous capability evaluations are a crucial tool for AI governance. But without accurate threat models, they could give us a false sense of security.
Gross Output

Slowing Gross Output Confirms Fed’s Need to Cut Rates - “By integrating the vital role of the supply chain into national income accounting, Mark Skousen’s development of gross output (GO) has created a more dy...
Wildlife – PERC

Rewarding Recovery Will Benefit the Wolf and All Imperiled Wildlife - PERC filed an amicus brief in Defenders of Wildlife v. U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service The post Rewarding Recovery Will Benefit the Wolf and All Imperiled...
Johnny Grey Studios

FOOD FESTIVAL AFTERMATH. - Glamour on the Unfitted Kitchen Stage. Still coming down off the high of the first South Downs Food Festival… I can’t stop thinking about...
PERC - Property + Environment Research Center

The Search for Markets to Help Manage California’s Groundwater - What role have groundwater market actually played in implementing the Sustainable Groundwater Management Act? The post The Search for Markets to Help Ma...
Bawerk.net

Revolutionizing Financial Management: The Benefits and Features of Natco Credit Union’s Online Banking Services - In today's fast-paced digital age, convenience and accessibility are paramount, especially when it comes to... The post Revolutionizing Financial Managem...
Spiked Online

After the Pogrom Book Donation - The post After the Pogrom Book Donation appeared first on spiked.
THE CIVILIAN

Tory Whanau may have to sell Wellington mayoralty to make ends meet - Tory Whanau has revealed that she’s struggling so much financially that she may have to part with her beloved mayoralty, that of New Zealand’s capital city...
Te Papa

Tory Whanau may have to sell Wellington mayoralty to make ends meet - Tory Whanau has revealed that she’s struggling so much financially that she may have to part with her beloved mayoralty, that of New Zealand’s capital city...
Political Correctness Watch

- * Israel’s message to terrorists is simple: ‘Just stop attacking us’* Israel’s attacks on Hezbollah via exploding pagers and now walkie talkies are one of...
Stu-Topia

A Fallacy Called ‘Privilege, or It Didn’t Happen’ - Stuart K. Hayashi Ten years ago, if on social media you talked about a strange event that happened to you, often someone would quip, “Show pictures or it d...
Demystifying Science

Addressing Virus Skeptics - The Confusing misuse of the words isolate and cause
a/symmetric

We're going on hiatus - But do stick around
Better things are possible

Managing on-street parking for local benefit; the case for Parking Benefit Districts - Parking is often the centre of debate in our cities, particularly on-street car parks, who gets to use them and how we manage them.
Reviews - 13th Floor

WORD CHCH Literature Festival 2024: 13th Floor Report - [image: WORD] The 13th Floor’s Shamin Yazdani headed south to Christchurch to take in the WORD CHCH Literature Festival. Here is her report: I spent the ...
Beyond the Noise (Paul Offit)

Project 2025 vs. The Public’s Health, Part III - Part III: The NIH
TheMoneyIllusion

A long strange trip - For readers who don’t already know this, my new blog is over at Substack: scottsumner.substack.com This will be my final Money Illusion post. The blog bega...
Magazine Articles – Quadrant Online

A Journey of Death - "When he was released ahead of schedule from his prison sentence of nearly 20 years, Jiao Zhimin was in his early forties. On his way to his father’s hou...
What's New Under the Sun

Time for More Living Literature Reviews - A Third Anniversary Post
Tribes – PERC

Economic Potential of Wind and Solar in American Indian Communities - This academic paper combines data on wind and solar endowments, reservation characteristics, and utility-scale renewable energy projects to offer three i...
Harry’s Substack

The Complexity-Worshippers - The new attack on reason
Private Lands – PERC

PERC and RMEF Team Up to Launch Innovative Wildlife Conservation Initiatives - Our expanded partnership marks the beginning of a multiyear effort focused on pioneering big game conservation efforts across the Rocky Mountain West and...
Hunters and Anglers – PERC

PERC and RMEF Team Up to Launch Innovative Wildlife Conservation Initiatives - Our expanded partnership marks the beginning of a multiyear effort focused on pioneering big game conservation efforts across the Rocky Mountain West and...
Roots of Progress

Introducing the 2024 Blog-Building Intensive Fellows - We’re thrilled to announce our second cohort of our Blog-Building Intensive Fellowship! This year’s fellows are a group 25 of impressive progress think...
A City for People

Making it easier to build granny flats - City for People submits in support of more homes in existing urban areas.
One Sock: Heather Roy's Blog

Not One of Us - Recent attacks by opposition MPs on ACT party MPs Karen Chhour and David Seymour about not being "Māori enough" and the like reveal more about the attacker...
Notes On Liberty

New issue of Isonomia Quarterly is out - You can read the whole thing here.
Folarinism

White identity politics won’t save Britain - It fails to provide a vision for a good life and a realistic solution to the problems we face
Jackson Upmann

Coming soon - This is Jackson Upmann.
CEE – Econlib

Occupational Licensing - [An update of Occupational Licensing, by David S. Young.] Occupational licensing today directly affects more than one in five workers in the United State...
Liberty Scott

Charles Moore on the prospects of Trump in Foreign Policy - From the Daily Telegraph: *One of Mr Trump’s clearest messages, amplified by his choice of J D Vance, is that he does not want to help Ukraine defeat Vl...
Yes In Our Backyards

Mixed-use development is coming to NZ cities, here’s One Small Trick to take it further - Allowing neighbours to sell their planning rights to incoming developments will make a good policy even better
FDR Liberated

Top Strategies for Enhancing Customer Satisfaction in Business Services - Customer satisfaction is the cornerstone of any successful business. In […]
BloodhoundBlog

RIP Geno Petro, a hound at the head of the pack. - Geno Petro has passed away. He was one of the best writers to work with us here over the years – and I have the proof. Cura ut valeas, frater. Requiescat i...
Drinks and Drinking

Stirred Cucumber Drinks - This week’s Robb Report article was about a cocktail called the Archangel. You can read it here if you like, but briefly summarized: the Archangel is a neo...
Anti-Dismal

100 years of the theory of the firm. Or may be only 50. - Depending on how you pick your starting point there has been, roughly, 50 or 100 years of the mainstream economic theory of the firm. In support of the 1...
Miss Liberty's Film & Documentary World

Be a Filmmaker For Liberty: Training and Funding Are Available - Ever thought about becoming a filmmaker to promote libertarian ideas? It’s never been easier. Two organizations will help you learn the craft, find fundi...
The obscure word of the week is cudweed – Matthew Wright

The history of Hawke’s Bay – third edition - My long-standing history of Hawke’s Bay is out this month in new edition. It’s been in print and selling steadily since 2017. This new edition is in full c...
A Politically Incorrect History of New Zealand

Ned Fletcher's book: "unsatisfactory" and "badly flawed" - *N*ew Zealand/Australian historian Bain Attwood reviews Ned Fletcher's *English Text of the Treaty of Waitangi* in the *Australian Book Review. *His c...
Fizzifood

Lamb, courgette & triple cheese layered bake - JW – as requested, here’s the method behind the madness! This recipe is a cross between a moussaka and a (lower-carb) lasagne. I’ve used courgettes, grou...
Growing to Truth

Duh, Of Course Hamas Lied About Casualty Statistics - The UN revised their Gazan casualty statistics, claiming fewer women and children were killed than previously reported
Anna Gát: Eleven Sentence Essays

Excerpt 1 -- from a new essay series - Work in progress - (for interera.co)
Keith Weiner Economics

Commodities, Consumer Goods, Prices, and Time - Marian Tupy and Gale Pooley, at the Cato Institute, write about the Simon Abundance Index. SAI is named for Julian Simon, famous for his bet with the Malth...
Earthly Idealism

The Unhappy Millionaire - I’m excited to share the first two episodes of a podcast I’ve launched along with Ayn Rand Institute CEO Tal Tsfany: The Unhappy Millionaire. The premise i...
The Visible Hand

What is an ATAR and what does this have to do with income? - Cross-post from Substack. Look I’m from New Zealand – so when everyone around me started talking about ATARs I just smiled and nodded. In fact I probably c...
Mises Wiki - Recent changes [en]

DRAGONVALE! CHEATS MOD ANDROID IOS NO SURVEY 2024 NEW - Created page with "Hey there, DragonVale fans! Are you ready to take your DragonVale gaming experience to the next level? Well, you're in luck because we...
Technological Optimism with Thomas Walker-Werth

What Happened to Technological Optimism? - I haven't given up the good fight. I'm just taking it to a more fundamental level.
Progress Forum Digest

Why you, personally, should want a larger human population - Also: The City That Can't, how to raise a genius, FDA reform, and more
Butterpaper

Vault 2014: Gaza - cities under siege and under attack - Originally published in 2014. All eyes should be on Gaza at the moment, but understandably many are focused on unfolding events in the damp fields of Eas...
from FEE

Why We're Not Supposed to Talk about Climate-Related Deaths - Disaster mortality seems to be a perfectly useful metric for understanding climate change—when the numbers tell the right story.
Thoughts from 40° South

Reflections on October 7th - I have been intending to write down my thoughts on the massacre of Israelis by Hamas terrorists and Gaza civilians on October 7th, 2023, ever since it ha...
Jack’s Substack

Electricity Cheapest in a Decade - NZ residential electricity most affordable in recent history
The Fundy Post

Genesis -
Power + Market

In the Aftermath of the $355 Million Ruling Against Trump, Business Owners Are Even Less Safe than Before - By: Daniel Kowalski Willing buyer and willing seller. These five words form the very basis from which the system of capitalism is based on. You have someth...
round houses

island home - Sweet little cylindrical house on Koh Tao, an island in the Gulf of Thailand –
Samizdata

Let’s just defund the UN and leave it immediately - Hidden deep below the headquarters of the United Nations’ aid agency for Palestinians here is a Hamas complex with rows of computer servers that Israel’s...
The Grumpy Economist

Understanding Trumpers - WSJ oped and substack post.
Open Borders: The Case

High-skilled hacks: the business of extraordinary ability - This post is part of my “high-skilled hacks” series, focused on immigration to the United States. The series explores various workarounds and caveats to im...
The Popehat Report

The Popehat Report Is Moving To Beehiiv - As I mentioned before, the Popehat Report is moving to Beehiiv, a different platform for blogs and newsletters. You can find it at www.popehat.com. The nex...
Law of Markets

An economic philosopher of the highest rank - He explains how capitalism, and only capitalism, can and does make us prosperous. Alas, he also shows how rare this perspective is by being so rare himself...
The Organon Architecture Blog

How to begin creating Organic Architecture ... - *'House for Betta,' 1988, by architect James Schildroth* *Organic architecture is not about assembling boxes and coating them with candy floss. For tha...
Patrick T. Brown, PhD

The Social Feedback Loop that Puts Blinders on Climate Science -
Michelle Kamhi

Where I’m Coming From - In today’s toxically polarized climate, individuals willing to engage openly in civil discourse with people they may disagree with are all too rare and mer...
George Reisman's Blog

A 2024 Mid-Priced Automobile Sells for the Same $300 Price Paid for a Model T Ford in 1924 - It really does, if you can pay for it in *Gold* dollars. Based on the present price of gold bullion, of approximately $2,000 per ounce, a twenty-dollar U...
Precise Thinking

Finding the Benevolent Universe when the World is in a Pickle - by
Democracy Action

Is the government staying true to its promises? - In November 2023, National released the coalition agreements made with ACT and NZ First. The Coalition Government agrees to defend the principle that Ne...
Oh look it's a blog - Lorin Clarke

Won't somebody think of the children - I’ve been working with children lately. I have been astonished and astounded by how creative they are. It must be physiological. It’s just a fact that th...
Fisheries – PERC

Free Markets and the Environment - A podcast exploring PERC's unique approach to conservation. The post Free Markets and the Environment appeared first on PERC.
positive check

New location - The EHES blog Positive Check has moved and can be found on the EHES website: *https://ehes.org/category/blog/*
Dominic Frisby

Exclusive Gold-Infused Comedy Show: Don't Miss Out - Laugh and learn about gold with Dominic Frisby! Extra London dates on Feb 14th and 15th. Get your tickets now. #ComedyGold
The Continental Telegraph

The BBC and terrorism - The language we use matters – it provides clarity to our own thoughts and enables us to be… The post The BBC and terrorism appeared first on Continental ...
Pirate Wires

Dean Preston: San Francisco's Millionaire Marxist - the card carrying dsa sf politician also happens to be a millionaire who refuses to allow more housing in the city
Professor Werner

Washington’s “development economics” is actually designed to prevent development - Published in China by Guancha.cn newspaper on 7 September 2023 at: https://www.guancha.cn/Werner/2023_09_07_707650_3.shtml
Uranium-238

Introduction to the Iran Nuclear Deal - Putting a price on nonproliferation
New Ideal – Reason | Individualism | Capitalism

Agustina Vergara Cid on the Immorality of the U.S. Immigration System - [image: Agustina Vergara Cid on the Immorality of the U.S. Immigration System] *Immigrants who “get in line” are punished for wanting to work.* The post A...
Comments on: Bert Kelly

By: Better to be popular than right « Economics.org.au - […] Bert Kelly […]
Cafe Hayek

Some Links - (Don Boudreaux) TweetWriting in the Wall Street Journal, NYU physicist Steven Koonin reports on how the Biden White House inadvertently told the truth abou...
Origin Stories

Breaking Performance Addiction... - ... and wrapping up my first season of Origin Stories
The Great Recession Blog

It’s Crunch Time for The Daily Doom and Doom Time for The Great Recession Blog - The Great Recession Blog is officially done for good, and my writing continues on TheDailyDoom.com. This site will eventually be completely terminated. If ...
Stories by Rudi Edsall on Medium

Round 12 v Bulldogs — who needs a midfield anyway? - Round 12 v Bulldogs — who needs a midfield anyway? I honestly did not see a way we could do this one. I was expecting an absolute massacre in the midfield ...
Alastair Cavendish: British Freedom

So They Smashed that Old Man of Whitehaven - Hot on the heels of the Theatre Royal in Stratford promoting a Black Out evening, a performance of the play Tambo and Bones which they...
The Gutter

Woden's Day Thing: 4/26/22 - All right already
The Market Urbanism Report Blog

Can Prospera Become A Startup City Blueprint? - The emergence of startup cities is a story we’ll cover extensively these next few years. Prospera of Honduras is a leading example.
Energy – PERC

Conservatives Can Lead on Conservation and Climate Solutions - Supporting policies that leverage incentives and partnerships to protect our natural heritage should be a big part of our strategy to address environment...
Rational Optimist

Who really discovered DNA's structure? Five people. - Tuesday 28th February marks the 70th anniversary of – in my view – the most important day in the entire history of science. On a fine Saturda...
Matt Ridley - Blog RSS

Who really discovered DNA's structure? Five people. - Tuesday 28th February marks the 70th anniversary of – in my view – the most important day in the entire history of science. On a fine Saturda...
Search Results for “willey house stories” – Frank Lloyd Wright Foundation

Willey House Stories Part 22: Calling the Kettle Back—Chapter 7: Repatriation - In this seven-chapter subseries of the Willey House Stories, Steve Sikora reflects on Frank Lloyd Wright’s fireplaces, their purpose, and meaning—and the...
Points of Interest

Highlighting "The Parenting Handbook" - This fall, Montessorium was lucky to bring education writer Samantha Blaisdell onto our content team. Samantha is a former teacher, trained mechanical engi...
Competitive Enterprise Institute

Kathleen and Charles Moore Prepare to take their Fight Against Taxing Unrealized Gains to Supreme Court - In 2017, Congress passed the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act. The new law was a reform of the federal tax code, but also included a provision called the Mandatory ...
StephenFranks.co.nz

Who’s calling the shots on co-governance? Lawyers or MPs? Will the Court of Appeal order disclosure? - On Wednesday 15 February the Court of Appeal will hear the arguments of two King’s Counsel, that the government should come clean on whether its lawyers ar...
A gay man on gender and sexuality

What you still can't say on Twitter - Suspended for 12 hours
Anarchist History of New Zealand

1988: The Meade Report - In 1987 Labour 4.0 Prime Minister David Lange gave himself the education portfolio shortly after winning re-election that year. One of the education groups...
Master Resource

‘Greenhushing’ Joins Greenwashing (woke firms in legal peril?) - “Fear among corporate firms of being called out on misleading and or exaggerated environmental and sustainability claims is growing as regulators clamp ...
Consulting by RPM || Free Advice Blog

Receipts for BMS Ep 254: Kark Marx Was Kind of a Big Deal - Here is the link to my podcast critique of Phil Magness’ promotion of his paper, co-authored with Michael Makovi, on Karl Marx. In this episode I allude to...
Knowledge Problem

Knowledge Problem archive 2002-2020 - This is the archive of the Knowledge Problem blog, all 4,690 posts. The search function will help you locate posts on the various topics Mike and I wrote a...
Cactus Kate

World Cup Wonderfulness - In Australia - I attended a World Cup final this weekend. No it was not the "team of $55m" wonderfulness final. It was a T20 cricket one. In Melbourne. England v P...
Coordination Problem

Rationalizing the Discussion on Migration and Policy - |Peter Boettke| Michael Clemens is one of the most powerful voices in the economics profession for the free flow of people throughout the world. He brings ...
Coordination Problem

Rationalizing the Discussion on Migration and Policy - |Peter Boettke| Michael Clemens is one of the most powerful voices in the economics profession for the free flow of people throughout the world. He brings ...
Bernard Darnton

Crab Nebula: the Real 4th of July Fireworks - On around the 4th of July 1054 a supernova exploded, creating the spectacular Crab Nebula. It was recorded by Chinese astronomers but was it also recorded ...
Mencken's Ghost

Announcement: New Substack Publication - I have started a new Substack Publication. Details:
Cities Matter

Auckland at a Turning Point 2: Marking Down the Labour Market - *Reality Bites* For some years I have been calling out the over-exuberant growth expectations behind Auckland’s planning. I have also argued that creat...
American Consequences

The Silver Linings of the April CPI Report - May 18, 2022 Despite persistent inflation, there are good investment opportunities ahead in several niche areas. The post The Silver Linings of the April...
Focus on Right and Wrong, Not Right and Left | SEPARATE!

Our Individual Rights Are Going Down The Bathtub Inflation Overflow Drain - I’ve recently tried to brush up on my inflation skills. Being young and ignorant the last time it seriously impacted ... Continue reading
A Lady on Fire

How to Lose - Anger is not the answer. I. Calibrating to Humanity The first company I ever started was with my partner who’s also a software engineer. We had spoken to a...
Organic Architecture + Design Archives

JOURNAL OA+D V10:N1 :: COMING SOON - $20.00 - JOURNAL OF ORGANIC ARCHITECTURE + DESIGN VOL. 10 / NO. 1 :: COMING SOON :: THE WORK OF MACKIE AND KAMRATH :: ORGANIC ARCHITECTURE IN TEXAS Essay by Katie P...
The 1014

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Julian Burnside

Witness J – Another Victim of National Security’s Tightening Grip? - Too few Australians know about the case of Witness J – not to be confused with the case against Witness K and Bernard Collaery, itself a disgraceful overre...
Center for Industrial Progress

Holiday talking points, me vs. a catastrophist climate scientist - I hope you had a great Thanksgiving weekend. Here’s what I’ve been up to that may be of interest. My top 6 talking points for conversations this holiday se...
Center for Industrial Progress

Holiday talking points, me vs. a catastrophist climate scientist - I hope you had a great Thanksgiving weekend. Here’s what I’ve been up to that may be of interest. My top 6 talking points for conversations this holiday se...
Popehat

Customer Agent Rendering - A customer representative or perhaps buyer broker is the strategy of a brokerage or property broker symbolizing a client in an financial commitment transac...
Reviving Reason

The Case for Vaccine Mandates—Refuted - Vaccination status doesn’t tell us whether a person poses a threat to others.
Armed and Dangerous

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Catallaxy Files

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1828 – Championing Freedom

How to Boost Economic Growth and Sustain it? - Economic growth is nothing but GDP increase that refers to the combined value of products and services a country produces annually. So, obviously economi...
The Rational Capitalist

The Rat Cap Podcast: Episode 13 - The Rat Cap Podcast: The History of Slavery and the Western Heroes Who Abolished It (libsyn.com)Slavery has existed everywhere since the beginning of time....
No Minister

Die MSM, Die – Systemic Corruption - Die MSM, Die – Systemic Corruption
Mish Talk

The Psychology of QE is Far More Important Than the Amount of It - Let's discuss what QE really does vs the psychology of QE.
Check Your Premises

Two upcoming events. - There are two upcoming events that are likely to be of interest to Ayn Rand Society members. The first event—the one not put on by the ARS—is a panel at ne...
'The Critic' Magazine

Senator Marco Rubio says business-as-usual with Beijing is “not an option” - In an exclusive interview with Kapil Komireddi, the US senator condemns the Communist Party of China as a "genocidal regime" which poses "the greatest thre...
Travel Secrets by Shar Lemond

No Highway by Nevil Shute – Book Review - *“Therefore, go forth, companion: when you find* *No Highway more, no track, all being blind,The way to go shall glimmer in the mind.* *Though you h...
Scott Holleran

Remember the Alamo - I first learned about the Alamo in earnest from the late John David Lewis. This Objectivist thinker and teacher demonstrated the central facts about the ba...
Comments on: Wind Turbine Noise: Real Impacts on Neighbors

By: Joshua - My home is about 4000 feet from a proposed 650 foot 5mw turbine and 7000 feet from another. Can you respond to what your recommended setbacks may be for th...
The Long Run

The launch of the new Economic History Society website – and the new home of the The Long Run blog - The Economic History Society is very happy to launch its new website as of November 2020. This site streamlines everything that the Society has to offer, i...
Urban – PERC

Fire Insurance Regs Hurt California Homeowners - The unintended consequences of California’s price restrictions on insurance rates leave insurers unable to cover losses after catastrophic wildfire damag...
Kiwi Gun Blog

More Evidence of Buyback Failure - The Kiwi Gun Blog has been gathering as much hard data as possible to prove what a disaster the gun buy back was. Here is a classic example – The wonderful...
Stories by MIT Legatum Center on Medium

Making the UN Global Goals A Reality: Why Trade, Enterprise & Weather Intelligence Matters - The UN General Assembly is this month marking 75 years since it came into being — 75 years of international cooperation, dialogue and work for developmen...
The Devil's Kitchen

NHS Fail Wail - I think that we can all agree that the UK's response to coronavirus has been somewhat lacking. In fact, many people asserted that our death rate was unique...
News - Democracy Action

Revealed: Auckland Council spends $129 million in six years on duplicated iwi consultation, targeted Māori spending - *A new briefing paper co-published by the Auckland Ratepayers’ Alliance and Democracy Action reveals that in just six years, Auckland Council spent at le...
John P. McCaskey

History of ‘Temperature’: Maturation of a Measurement Concept - This is the accepted manuscript for an article to be published by Taylor & Francis in Annals of Science. Accounts The post History of ‘Temperature’: Matu...
Quote Unquote

Waikato Times letter of the week #92 - From the edition of Saturday 22 August. As always, spelling, punctuation, grammar and logic are exactly as printed in the *Waikato Times.* *Driver licen...
Joakim Book | Life of an Econ Student

Publications, June - Summer is here, and here's this month's breakdown. For more news about my publications, follow my work on Authory and on Twitter. *HumanProgress.org* -...
Center for the Legalization of Privacy

Barr and Wray are Coming For Your Apple Encryption - An extra I did earlier this week, after Tom Hall sent me the video of a press conference by Attorney … Continue reading →
Legalize Privacy

Barr and Wray are Coming For Your Apple Encryption - An extra I did earlier this week, after Tom Hall sent me the video of a press conference by Attorney … Continue reading →
Kuo's Gulch | Justice, Independence, Productivity, Honesty, Integrity, Pride, Rationality

Man and His Inherent Productivity - If there’s anything we have learnt from the Coronavirus pandemic, is that people are willing to submit themselves to authoritarianism for the sake of a fal...
Malthouse Blog

Staff Profiles in Courage: Ryan Mann - Staff Profiles in Courage: Ryan Mann There’s a new crew on deck at the mighty Malthouse. Old faces have left for new adventures, replaced by a new inter...
Coffee House

In Congo, the Church is doing the government’s business - Once I am sure there’s nothing going on I step inside letting the door thud shut The opening lines of…
Inductive Quest

William Whewell's "Discoverer's Induction" (Part 6/Final Part) - Previous posts: William Whewell's "Discoverer's Induction" (Part 1) William Whewell's "Discoverer's Induction" (Part 2) William Whewell's "Discoverer's Ind...
Comments on: (Expensive) markets in everything

By: Zaphod Dentbrox III PHD - You guys are a bunch of suckers for hipster creatives at an ad agency,
sportreview.net.nz

Cricket world cup final FAQ - This content was lovingly emailed to general sporting masochists in EMERGENCY Sport Review newsletter #70 – join them and get this carry on every week at s...
A Force for Good | How economics, morality, and markets combine

New Blog Location; This Page is Now Defunct - Hello. A Force for Good as permanently relocated to my personal website: www.jonmmurphy.com. Please update your bookmarks accordingly. This website will...
Montessori Rocks

Encouraging Problem Solving - “Never help a child with a task at which he feels he can succeed.” –Maria Montessori This quote speaks volumes to what the end goal is in a Montessori ed...
Carl Menger Center for the Study of Money and Banking

Internationalization of the Yuan Continues Apace - To the unobservant, which includes most politicians, the United States remains a strong and resolute empire. Just witness the statements from Democratic ...
The Sand Pit

The value of value-added in schools - We’re developing New Zealand’s first contextualised value-added model to help evaluate New Zealand secondary schools on a variety of outcome measures. Joel...
EconTalk

Moises Velasquez-Manoff on Cows, Carbon Farming, and Climate Change - Journalist and author Moises Velasquez-Manoff talks about the role of dirt in fighting climate change with EconTalk host Russ Roberts. Velasquez-Manoff exp...
AYN RAND CENTRE (UK)

Hello world! - Welcome to WordPress. This is your first post. Edit or delete it, then start writing! The post Hello world! appeared first on AYN RAND CENTRE.
Oswald Bastable's Ranting

Are you mad?- oh wait... - Of course. You would have to be be barking mad to want to bring this rabble to NZ. But then socialists are mad by definition. It's not as if we don't have...
Planetizen

A New Green Thumb Tool for Planners - A New Green Thumb Tool for Planners James Brasuell Wed, 07/12/2017 - 09:00 Primary Image [image: Philadelphia Park] "A joint venture between The Nature Con...
For The New Intellectual

Surrealist Writers Union Goes on Strike -
makingnewzealand

The Argument for Stopping Urban Sprawl - It's true that only about 1 part in 125 of New Zealand's land area is covered over in sprawl, with much less than that being actually built on (much of the...
The Dim-Post

Half-formed thoughts of the day - I was thinking about the Women’s March on Washington, and the global nature of it, and also the global nature of the White Nationalist movement: Trump, Put...
The Frank Lloyd Wright Newsblog

Sherman Booth House For Sale - The Sherman Booth House in Glencoe, Illinois is for sale. The asking price is $1.9 million. The house is a late Prairie Style design, dating from 1915. T...
PrairieMod

Richard Neutra Pillow - *Vendor: *Printful *Type: *Pillow *Price: * 34.00 A simple way to dress up any sofa, chair, bed, or room with a pop of color and a bold double-sided gr...
Blog - Minkz

Ichigo Ichie, Moment Hunters, new work by Mina - [image: NewlyDrawnGirl.jpg] *Ichigo Ichie, Moment Hunters - new work by Mina opening 12 March, 5 - 8 pm* On a recent trip to Japan, Mina fell in love wit...
Affordable Auckland

Prices Only Going Up in Auckland - New figures showing Auckland’s median house price have reached a record high of $820,000 comes as no surprise to Affordable Auckland spokesman Stephen Berr...
Life Behind the IRon Drape

Signing off - My Last Blog Post | Nicky Hager; Heather Du Plessis-Allan; Deborah Hill-Cone; Giovanni Tiso - Individualism & the Tyranny of Each Other. - The secret of being a bore is to tell everything – Voltaire. When the last human who understands individualism passes, so will pass the entirety of h...
Tibor's space

Reflections on Modern Democracy - Democracy – but only when it goes your way! Tibor R. Machan Over the years of watching the democratic process I’ve noticed something important. People ten...
Politics without God

Should You Try to Be Morally Perfect? - Off-topic but perhaps of interest... Back in March 2012, I gave a lecture titled "Should You Try to Be Morally Perfect?" as part of the CU Boulder Philosop...
The PRODOS blog

Liz Cheney: Obama is uniquely dangerous president - Above video is set to start at 9 min 46 sec. Transcript Megyn Kelly: Do you think that President Obama is dangerous? Liz Cheney: Yes … I think there’s no q...
THE WEEKLY WRIGHT-UP

Each day is a journey, and the journey itself home. - *Each day is a journey, and the journey itself home.* *--*Matsuo Bashō, (Japanese poet, 1644-1694) from *Oku no Hosomichi* Jack Quinan and Sandra Q....
TheBubbleBubble.com - Warning About Post-2009 Economic Bubbles

Jesse Colombo’s Interview On The Doug McIntyre Show On 790 KABC - I had an interview with Doug McIntyre on 790 KABC today, and here is the audio file. I will also upload this to Youtube shortly. Jesse Colombo’s Interview ...
Titanic Deck Chairs

Flexible Tactics, Integrated Strategy, Inflexible Purpose - While reading Nothing Less than Victory: Decisive Wars and the Lessons of History by John David Lewis the other day, I came across something that I knew im...
Bushfire Front – Bushfire management in Western Australia

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Commentary | Bassett, Brash and Hide

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Master Resource

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Frank Lloyd Wright

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Turning Point UK

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The Common Room

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THE ALL RIGHT

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The Hot Club of New York

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Strong Towns

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Ayn Rand Society

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Energy Talking Points - Alex Epstein

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The Telegraph (UK)

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Environmental Progress

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Cato at Liberty

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SovereignLife Freedom Blog

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oliviapierson.org Free Thought Advocate - Blog

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