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SkyscraperCity Forum

Vivienda y nuevas promociones inmobiliarias en València - Hola a tod@s!!! Bueno, me acabo de registrar y voy a estrenarme con este post para preguntar a l@s valencian@s qué tal se vive por allí en Valencia, ya q...
The Inquiring Mind

Hunter – #117 – S06 E09 – The Fifth Victim - Link below https://youtu.be/P6891QB2Zyk?si=U9QSlbRSL5UhqMYl
American Enterprise Institute – AEI

Supreme Court Considers FCC’s Jury Trial Problem - Whether the Seventh Amendment permits an agency to determine liability and impose punitive sanctions itself, so long as a jury trial may occur later—if t...
The Stoic Handbook by Jon Brooks

See inside The Stoic Vault - A few people have asked what the Vault actually looks like inside.
Tim Worstall

Telegraph’s hiring - Not that I’d get the job there’s a fatwa against me there. On hte Money pages they’re looking for a senior (ie, not an intern) writer. One necessity is t...
The Free Press

David Mamet vs. the Snobs - And why the legendary playwright hates Salinger, Steinbeck—and school.
Watts Up With That?

More On The Federal Judicial Center And The Attribution Scam - The heart of the problem is that science is all about hypotheses being subject to empirical test against real world evidence. But the “attribution” studies...
Astral Codex Ten

Hidden Open Thread 419.5 - ...
Quotulatiousness

On The Line with Vice-Admiral Angus Topshee, commander of the Royal Canadian Navy - The Line Published 3 February, 2025 Today on On The Line, Matt Gurney is joined by Vice-Admiral Angus Topshee, commander of the Royal Canadian Navy, for an...
The Daily Sceptic

What Peter Mandelson Should Learn From the BookTok Generation - With all the time he'll now have on his hands, Peter Mandelson should join BookTok and learn from the new generation of young readers digging into the cl...
Utopia - you are standing in it!

More maps - https://www.facebook.com/share/p/1BYoNGeoAw/
GeekPress

Dark Matter Map - *"See the Most Detailed Map* of Dark Matter Ever Made, Bringing Astronomers a Step Closer to Unraveling Its Mysterious Nature"
Ayn Rand Centre UK

Iran Attacks US Ships, Trump Retaliates With Words #1653 -
Marginal Revolution

My Conversation with Andrew Ross Sorkin - This was great fun for me, here is the audio, video, and transcript. Here is part of the episode summary: Tyler and Andrew debate whether those 1929 sto...
No Minister

Do You Remember When Garrick Tremain Updated The Treaty Of Waitangi? - From Facebook
Zero Hanger

‘It’s not realistic’: Cats star forward’s short-term playing future in doubt - “We’re mindful of where he’s at and the personal challenges he’s had.”
ArchDaily

Systems’ Hack and RAMSA’s Palmer Memorial Institute Plan: This Week’s Review - This week's architecture news brings together a series of announcements that reflect how the discipline is engaging with larger structural and institutio...
What Is Stoicism? 🌷

☀️ Micro Morning Meditation: The Dependable Wealth of the Mind - To have what is enough.
Schiffradio.com

Tariffs Are a Tax: Price Shock Ahead - Peter Schiff examines the economic fallout from tariffs, critiques Bitcoin's poor performance, and forecasts the implications for upcoming elections. Th...
Point of Order

Two bodies blessed by kaumatua at crash scene (presumably in partnership with Police) were tourists - Another day has passed without an explanation from the Police Media Centre about the assistance provided by iwi at the site of a helicopter crash near Batt...
Techdirt

Measles Has Now Begun To Infect Immigrant Detention Camps - It’s darkly funny, in a way, to recall a racist trope that gets trotted out about immigration all the time: immigrants bring disease into the country. That...
New Zealand Arts Review

The Europa Film Festival - John Daly-Peoples Europa Film Festival Bridgeway Cinemas, AucklandThu 19 Feb – Wed 4 March John Daly-Peoples The Europa Film Festival opens with Testament ...
John D. Cook

Γ(1/n) - If n is a positive integer, then rounding Γ(1/n) up to the nearest integer gives n. In symbols, We an illustrate this with the following Python code. >>>...
Breaking Views

Anglo Saxon: Waitangi Grievance day - New Zealanders to pay more reparations? - In this show we hit the segment scene with coverage about the up coming Waitangi Grievance Day 2026, the councillor who stood up to woo woo, the legacy med...
The Daily Doom

AI stocks, Jobs, Dollars, the Epstain and Alan Dershowitz All Flush Down the Drain Together Today - And there is even tawdry little connection between Epstein and Bitcoin back in its early days.
Kiwiblog

A good time to be a first home buyer - Radio NZ reports: 2026 is a “Goldilocks” year for first-home buyers, with lower interest rates, lots of houses to choose from and banks willing to lend t...
Glenn’s Substack

Is The Singularity Here? - And if not, how close is it?
Real Clear Energy

For Climate, Let's Retire Politics of Fear - Gary Abernathy, The Empowerment Alliance In the latest example of the scare tactics favored by climate change alarmists, it was announced last month that ...
Persuasion

Not Everything Is Corruption - Money does distort politics, but not as badly as you think.
Homepaddock

Word of the day - Intellection – the action or process of understanding; the exercise of the intellect; reasoning; the process of using your mind to consider something care...
Samizdata

The fact that a British person’s ancestors were not British is not shameful and need not be concealed - In times past, people in these islands went to great lengths to conceal that their ancestors were “lowborn”, or foreign, or, worse yet, unknown. Social c...
UnHerd

The dark shadow of the Blairites - Our leaders are pound-shop Machiavellis
David Stockmans Contra Corner

Golden Age Of Prosperity My Eye! - Click on Title to Read
The Daily Bog (Martyn Bradbury)

Government and Free Market Cheerleaders claim highest unemployment rate ’tis but a scratch’ - The disconnect from reality that the National Party and Free Market Cheerleaders live in vs the economic vandalism we are...
Rational Ground by Justin Hart

They Found Another One - The same CCP-linked operative. The same illegal biolab. A different city. And the same institutions that failed us the first time.
The Footy Almanac

Almanac Tennis (and the Environment): Death of the bounce – how to fix throwaway culture in tennis. - Well this is a first: an article which combines physics and tennis. Kiwi reader, Vineeth Thomas, explains an initiative which takes into consideration an e...
Retraction Watch

Lancet flags long-scrutinized report of infant poisoned by opioids in breast milk - The Lancet has put an expression of concern on a 2006 case report of a baby’s death purportedly from morphine poisoning through breast milk. The decision c...
Slow Boring

The limitations of YIMBYism - The housing debate stays heated.
Truth on the Market

Apple in Brazil: Ex Post Antitrust Meets Ex Ante Ambitions - Brazil’s competition authority (CADE) and Apple signed a Dec. 29 settlement agreement (Termo de Compromisso de Cessação, or TCC) resolving a high-stakes ...
Sustain What

At Bezos's Washington Post, Democracy May Still Die in Darkness, But Journalism is Dying in Daylight - And climate journalism even more so...
Energy in Depth

FERC Returns to Common-Sense Priorities with Natural Gas at Forefront - Extreme weather events and increased energy demand from data centers and advanced manufacturing are pushing America’s power grids to capacity. Those chal...
Chris Trotter

Slip-Sliding Away. - Antipodean politicians will either construct a post-neoliberal future or see their own futures slip-sliding away.
The Jolly Libertarian

The Techno-Authoritarian Blueprint for America Part 2 - Follow Us on Facebook and Bluesky! *In Part 1 of this three part series we looked the the philosophy of Hans-Hermann Hoppe which laid the groundwork fo...
Energy Talking Points by Alex Epstein

Congress’s new ethanol council should recommend fuel freedom: allow E15 with no mandates - It’s time for an honest conversation about government-dictated ethanol.
Futurism

New Site Lets AI Rent Human Bodies - "Robots need your body." The post New Site Lets AI Rent Human Bodies appeared first on Futurism.
Doug Casey's International Man

Doug Casey on Davos 2026: The Elite Agenda and What Comes Next - Davos 2026 reveals an elite push for tighter state-managed economies—using housing, AI, and geopolitics as levers... The post Doug Casey on Davos 2026: T...
David Stockman's Contra Corner

Golden Age Of Prosperity My Eye! - The utterly delusional MAGA nonsense about the Trumpian Golden Age of Prosperity has gone from the absurd to the sublime. There is absolutely no foundati...
Roberto’s Substack

Severity, Law, and the Collapse of Proportion - Why Not All Wrongdoing Is Equal—and Why That Matters
Marcus on AI

Sam Altman and the day Nvidia’s meteoric rise came to an end - Happy half anniversary, GPT-5
Spiked Online

The Greens’ Hannah Spencer is no friend of the working class - The post The Greens’ Hannah Spencer is no friend of the working class appeared first on spiked.
Curbed - All

New York Didn’t Know What to Do With Isamu Noguchi - The sculptor’s rejected playgrounds and plazas come back into view at his namesake museum.
The Curmudgeon

Fratelli d'empietà - Church authorities in Rome have ordered the decapitation of an angel in a fresco after an amateur restorer made it look like Giorgia Meloni. The worldly vi...
Reason Foundation

Strengthening Michigan’s open enrollment program through House Bill 5310 - House Bill 5310 refines Michigan’s open enrollment program and would implement excellent transparency provisions at the state and local levels. The post ...
JoNova

Extreme heat will make Darwin unlivable say ABC prophets and soothsayer activists (who don’t know it was hotter 120 years ago) - By Jo Nova The Northern Territory will become unlivable says the ABC, mindlessly parroting the latest activist-blob voodoo. The ABC Blob News spent near...
FREEDOM PUBLIC SQUARE

India's freedom from global blocs is the future - The case for autonomy in a fractured wor
Andrew Whiteside

Opinion: Was the 1853 General Election in Aotearoa the biggest con job in our history - In Aotearoa New Zealand Waitangi Day is a public holiday commemorating the signing of the Treaty of Waitangi between Māori and the British Crown. It’s a d...
Greater Auckland

Weekly Roundup 5-February-2026 - Here’s our weekly roundup of all things urbanism, a day earlier than usual with Waitangi Day tomorrow and the long weekend ahead. This week in Greater Au...
The Trumpland Diary

A Boy Named Sue - How Trump Turned Personal Lawsuits Into a $56 Billion Political Weapon
The Integrity Institute

News Briefing: 5 February 2026 - WAITANGI AND TREATY
IPWatchdog Articles

Judge Wolson Issues Key Summary Judgment Ruling on Eve of Trial in Arbutus v. Moderna - On February 2, 2026, U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania Judge Joshua D. Wolson, sitting by designation in the U.S. District Cou...
NOT A LOT OF PEOPLE KNOW THAT

Ed Miliband’s civil servants predict years of plunging gas prices - By Paul Homewood h/t Ian Cunningham Readers of Notalot won’t be surprised this news! From the Telegraph: Ed Miliband’s civil servants have predicted a deca...
Official Blog

Grauerort Fortress (Kehdinger Kreisbahn) – Geocache of the week - Letterbox Hybrid GCA4Q89 by Andrimas&bajjab, Listing von Bonzhonzlefonz Difficulty: 4.5 Terrain: 1.5 Location: Niedersachsen, Germany N 53° 40.700 E 009° 2...
The UnPopulist

Iran’s Protesters Are Trapped Between Tehran’s Brutality and Trump’s Empty Promises - Outside players with their own agenda are undermining the cause of regime change in the country
The Economic LongWave

🚨Canada’s Velocity Breaks Below 1.0: The Arithmetic of What Comes Next - 🤔A Deep Dive into the Data, the Historical Parallels, and the Scenarios Through 2040
Skeptic

Did the U.S. Really Use a Sonic Weapon in Venezuela? - Within days of the U.S. strike on Caracas and the capture of Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro on January 3, 2026, a remarkable claim was sweeping acr...
The Double Standard

Open Mike 05/02/2026 - Open mike is your post. For announcements, general discussion, whatever you choose. The usual rules of good behaviour apply (see the Policy). Step up to th...
FIRE

The secret war against student journalists - Across the country, colleges are using conduct hearings to punish student reporters for basic newsgathering — chilling who gets to tell campus stories.
The Breakthrough Journal

Is Green Misanthropy a Uniquely Western Affliction? - How the West Learned to Hate Humanity
Middle East Uncovered

End of Kurdish Autonomy Tests Syria’s Path to National Unity - As Syrian forces dismantle a decade of self-rule in the northeast, Kurds warn that forced integration risks deepening, not healing, national divisions.
The Tracinski Letter

The Battle of Minneapolis - A News Link Round-Up
Kunstler

February 2026 | Eyesore - DEI for buildings. . . . Hey, Chicago, try getting real.
Energy Transition Absurdities

CleanView Study: Natural Gas the Big Winner in AI Sweepstakes - It has been obvious for some time now that natural gas power generation would emerge as the big winner in the race to power America’s rapidly expanding fle...
Bet On It (Bryan Caplan)

Open Borders and Remote Work - A guest post by Vipul Naik
Conversable Economist

Winter 2026 Journal of Economic Perspectives Freely Available Online - I have been the Managing Editor of the Journal of Economic Perspectives since the first issue in Summer 1987. The JEP is published by the American Econom...
Why Evolution Is True

Another “New Rule” clip from bill Maher - If anybody is still accusing Bill Maher of being pro-Trump, have a gander at this nine-minute clip from “Real Time” two weeks ago (I missed this one). It’...
Rob Henderson's Newsletter

Art and Human Nature, Heritage Americans, Female Chimpanzees - Links and recommendations
Journal of Free Black Thought

Ep. 146 - The Victimhood Narrative Undermines Potential (Nique Fajors) - Listen now | An interview with entrepreneur Nique Fajors
Journal of Free Black Thought

Ep. 146 - The Victimhood Narrative Undermines Potential (Nique Fajors) - Listen now | An interview with entrepreneur Nique Fajors
Living Resources Center

Not Your Granddaddy’s Immigrants - You have the type of immigrant who comes to a free country, a place with no guarantees, no handouts, no special favors, a place where you are required to...
Stephen Hicks, Ph.D.

Zora Neale Hurston on racism and self-esteem - A favorite quotation: “Sometimes, I feel discriminated against, but it does not make me angry. It merely astonishes me. How can any deny themselves the ple...
Gus Van Horn

Trump Effs Around, and an American Sector Finds Out - Over at *Reason*, two articles show in general and specific terms how Donald Trump's ignorant and unprovoked trade war is backfiring. The first of these is...
The Grumpy Economist

Balancing the Budget, P.J. O'Rourke - It’s so hard, everyone says.
MARK STEYN: SteynOnline

Vintage Wine but Non-Vintage Women - Welcome to the conclusion of our seventy-eighth Tale for Our Time: The City without Jews by Hugo Bettauer. In our final episode it all comes down to a nail...
The Daily Economy

The Dollar Is Doing What Trump Wanted -
Classically Cultured by Rebecca Day Music

Sneak Peek: 'Andrew Wyeth at Kuerner Farm: The Eye of the Earth' - The celebrated 20th century American painter's works are currently on display at North Florida's Cummer Museum
Why not reason?

A self-made being - I’ve always had the habit of exercising.
DGMLive

1000 Club Online Meeting. - Join David and Alex for the first 1000 Club online meeting in 2026.
Institute for Energy Research

American Energy Production: Nobody Does it Better - Fueling The Conversation, Week of February 2nd, 2026 Too often, discussions about energy production in the United States emphasize its… The post American...
Statecraft

What’s Wrong with Nonprofits? - “It’s one sign of just how far nonprofits have fallen”
After Babel (Jonathan Haidt)

You Have To Be Human - I realize now that I want to be real
Dead Language Society

Etymology is a growth industry - One year of the Dead Language Society
Blog - Adam Smith Institute

Lifestyles of the rich and famous - The revelations from the Epstein files have proved a major embarrassment to some, and have blighted the careers of others. They have also given us a fasc...
Chartbook (Adam Tooze)

Top Links 1003 Credit card profits. Apple's margins. Skipping the grid. 18th-century war machines. - Great links, images, and reading from Chartbook Newsletter by Adam Tooze
An Africanist Perspective

Book Review (1/26): Mahmood Mamdani’s Slow Poison - A journey through Uganda’s stunted political development
Dianne Durante Writer's Substack

Timeline 1800-1899: the decade 1840-1849 - Afghanistan, anarchism, artificial fertilizers, Washington as Zeus, and more.
The Roots of Liberty

Asymmetric Concern - The Somali day care corruption scandal, a theft of taxpayer money that was simultaneously brazen and clownish, has been pushed off the front page by the an...
ChinaTalk

[EXCERPTS] Ed Luttwak - only the best bits for you from our five hour chat
Cato at Liberty

Texas Education Freedom Accounts Launching - The new Texas Education Freedom Account program, launching today, will likely lead to diverse new educational options in the Lone Star State.
Law & Liberty

Frenemies Behind the Veil of Ignorance - James Buchanan and John Rawls had more in common than most people realize.
Mises Wire

Everyone Agrees Our Elites Are Terrible, So Why Are We Stuck with Them? - The latest release of Epstein files again highlighted how disgusted and frustrated people have grown with the current elites. Yet they remain essentially u...
Mises Institute Blog

Everyone Agrees Our Elites Are Terrible, So Why Are We Stuck with Them? - The latest release of Epstein files again highlighted how disgusted and frustrated people have grown with the current elites. Yet they remain essentially u...
Sawahil

On the Death of Libya's Saif al-Islam Gaddafi - From superficial reformer to, in death, a symbol of privatized violence and murky politics.
Doomberg

Fit to Print - One news event, many spins: A global propaganda tour.
Existential Crunch

Strong democracies are a necessity for crisis management - Why crisis governance depends on democratic capacity
The Antiplanner

Northstar’s Great Success - Minnesota’s Northstar commuter train made its last run about a month ago. Planners had predicted that the train would carry 5,900 passengers a day, but in ...
The Antiplanner

Northstar’s Great Success - Minnesota’s Northstar commuter train made its last run about a month ago. Planners had predicted that the train would carry 5,900 passengers a day, but in ...
Hoover institution Commentary

Greek Civil War: The First Blood of the Cold War - Although the Greek Civil War ended 77 years ago, it continues to be the subject of study—not only for historians, but also for theorists and practitioners ...
The Whakataki Times

Local Teammate Who Still Hasn’t Paid His Subs Will “Sort It Tonight” - EVERY YEAR. The post Local Teammate Who Still Hasn’t Paid His Subs Will “Sort It Tonight” appeared first on The Whakataki Times.
Everyday Price Index | AIER

Will Adam Smith’s ‘Impartial Spectator’ Soften Trump’s Hardest Foreign-Policy Edges? - The list of Trump administration foreign-policy moves in recent weeks is long. It conducted an attack on Venezuela, brought President Nicolas Madura and ...
American Institute of Economic Research

Will Adam Smith’s ‘Impartial Spectator’ Soften Trump’s Hardest Foreign-Policy Edges? - The list of Trump administration foreign-policy moves in recent weeks is long. It conducted an attack on Venezuela, brought President Nicolas Madura and ...
Cremieux Recueil

Your Allergies Are Probably Fake - You might be avoiding medications that don't do anything to you
To make the darkness conscious - Zoran's Substack

Without Losers, Winners Are Nothing - Why we must celebrate the determined, the defeated, and the relentless. Without those who persist in loss, greatness itself collapses.
Real Clear Energy: Commentary

Crudely Put: Oil Is Everywhere - “A century ago, petroleum—what we call oil—was just an obscure commodity; today it is almost as vital to human existence as water,” James Buchan For years ...
Lindsay Mitchell

Who's to blame for the sorry state of some primary school entrants? - *"Didn't know I was pregnant till about six months gone. So yeah, I've been drinking and smoking P. Don't know who the father is. But that doesn't matter...
News & Announcements | The 13th Floor

Balu Brigada Auckland Hometown Show for Portal Australasia Album Tour - Banished Music are thrilled to announce alt-pop duo Balu Brigada will return to Aotearoa this June in support of their acclaimed debut album Portal, perf...
Paul Wells

The longer he's not Prime Minister - Stephen Harper attends the unveiling of his portrait, and speaks to history
No Right Turn

Climate Change: The sin of cheapness - Tairāwhiti has a problem. Thanks to decades of forestry strip-mining the land, every major storm washes down sediment and slash from the hills, covering fi...
Quillette

Heir Jordan - Aaron Magid has written a timely biography of a consequential monarch.
Culture Notes of an Honest Broker

Did I Call the Bubble Top? - And what happens next?
Capitalism Magazine

How Not to Sell Free-Market Healthcare Ideas - Conceding the premise that if the government were only competent enough, it should be in charge of securing healthcare for everyone grants the moral high g...
The Roots of Progress

Climate and energy: Innovation at every level - Talks and writing from Progress Conference 2025
First Stones NewsLetter

On What Planet ... is corrupted language and uncorrupted language both good ... beginning to look like Planet Earth: - That is--for my needs, from my perspective--is 'cut and paste' faster than ChatGPT?
A Halfling's View

I Cannot Live Without Books - The Library - Hollowing Out Knowledge
McFaul's World

Will the U.S. Strike Iran—or Strike a Deal? - Iranians want a deal on democracy, not a deal on nuclear weapons. We should too.
Market Urbanism

Aesthetics and NIMBYism - Every so often I read a tweet or listserv post saying something like this: “If modern buildings were prettier there’d be less NIMBYism.” I always thought t...
Israel Institute of NZ

When Houses of Worship Burn: What New Zealand Knows — and Must Not Ignore - New Zealand knows what it means when a house of worship is attacked. On 15 March 2019, the Christchurch mosque attacks shattered any illusion that violence...
The Redneck Intellectual by C. Bradley Thompson

The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly (No. 87) - Untimely Thoughts on a World in Transition
The Works in Progress Newsletter

Many Victorian cities grew by tenfold in a century - Could ours do the same?
Matua Kahurangi

Breaking down the petition and the level of transparency being sought - Parliament’s petition system forces complex ideas into tiny character limits.
Stoicism: Philosophy as a Way of Life

Some Notes on Anger and Intolerance - How to accept things even though you don't like them
bad cattitude

how to tell if you are the problem - a one question sorting test for restoring civilization (or at least civility)
Speaking Wrong At The Right Time

The art of the scam: Even smart Americans fall prey to fraud - My Latest New York Post Article
Beautiful Wisdom, by Peter Saint-Andre

Elegy for Elisa - In Remembrance
eugyppius: a plague chronicle

The internet is awash in metric tonnes of shallow Epstein bullshit - Yesterday I took the train north from Dresden to Rostock to deal with some last-minute personal business:
How To Subvert Subversion with Yuri Bezmenov

Millennial Baizuo Kamikaze - Why white liberal millennials like Renee Good and Alex Pretti are the most demoralized and dangerous demographic in America
Uncharted Territories

Peak Oil Is Coming - In early markets, hybrids always prevail because there’s not enough electric infrastructure. As it develops and people can charge their cars more easily, t...
Asimov’s Addendum

Can Open Source Survive AI? - The stories of Stack Overflow, Tailwind, FFmpeg, and curl
Anthony B. Bradley

The “Alcaraz Box”: Why Young Men Need a Council of Sages - Why boys need to be trained by bald men
Anthony B. Bradley

The “Alcaraz Box”: Why Young Men Need a Council of Sages - Why boys need to be trained by bald men
Alex Nowrasteh's Deep Dives

Cato study: Immigrants reduced deficits by $14.5 trillion since 1994 - Immigrants have cut deficits by nearly one third over three decades.
Laissez-Faire, Laissez-Passer w/ Alex Nowrasteh & David Bier

Cato study: Immigrants reduced deficits by $14.5 trillion since 1994 - Immigrants have cut deficits by nearly one third over three decades.
Changing Lanes

The Iron Law of Air Travel - The equilibrium we can’t escape
Beyond the Noise (Paul Offit)

Who‘s Really Behind the MAHA Movement? - RFK Jr.’s recent removal of FDA warnings about dangerous autism therapies shows exactly who is funding the MAHA movement.
The Take (by Jon Miltimore)

Landman Understands Economics Better Than Many Economists - Landman is not just a show about wealth and power. It’s a show about the costs of wealth and power, and the costs apply to rig workers and executives alike.
The Rebuild

Working-Class Voters Aren’t Feeling Trump’s "Golden Age" - In the first year of President Donald Trump’s new term, working-class Americans – lower income Americans or those without college degrees – many of whom pr...
The New Era

The End of the Rules Based System? - Episode 3 of NewsChat with Claus Hetting and Jeff Peel
Yascha Mounk

Ruud Koopmans on Immigration and Integration in Europe - Yascha Mounk and Ruud Koopmans discuss why European integration differs from the American experience.
Roy Spencer, PhD.

UAH v6.1 Global Temperature Update for January, 2026: +0.35 deg. C - The Version 6.1 global average lower tropospheric temperature (LT) anomaly for January, 2026 was +0.35 deg. C departure from the 1991-2020 mean, up a littl...
Toppermost

The Bothy Band - The Bothy Band are regarded as one of the finest of the many talented groups which emerged from the third wave of the folk music revival in Ireland. The...
Sinification

Jin Canrong: China’s Foreign Policy Requires Recalibration - "[If we] are unable to offer even limited support when other countries face existential crises, we will struggle to win genuine friends."
Equal to Reality

Something Is No Longer Holding - Notes on a Culture Beginning to Notice Its Own Cracks.
Forbidden Science

Why I am suing Texas Tech - And how you can help
Flashbak

With The People of Malaga – 1969-1971 - To the province of Málaga in Andalusia on Spain’s Costa del Sol. From 1969 to 1971, photographer Jürgen Schadeberg (18 March 1931 – 29 August 2020) was t...
The Logical Place

Australian fruit and vegetables: normal versus ‘organic’ - Australian store-bought fruit and vegetables are safe, nutritious, and—very often—better value for money than their ‘organic’ counterparts. That claim can ...
The Library of Celaeno

Star Wars as A Right Phenomenon - My forward to Multipolar Galaxy
Education plus ... Challenging Mediocrity.

Fantastic piece of History work to mark Waitangi Week. - I have available the NZ History poster below.
Stats Chat

United Rugby Championship Predictions for Delayed Games - Team Ratings for Delayed Games The basic method is described on my Department home page. Here are the team ratings prior to this week’s games, along with...
Manhattan Contrarian

More On The Federal Judicial Center And The Attribution Scam - * As discussed in the previous post, the Federal Judicial Center’s recently-updated Reference Manual on Scientific Evidence contains a new chapter on Clima...
Elsewhere by Graham Reid: Music at Elsewhere

Transcender Nova, The Lightbox (Pale Morning/digital outlets) - There's a lot of it about, as the music hall comedians used to say. However we're talking about ambient, slightlydelic soundscapes and the practitioners ...
Free Range Kids

The Real Reason You’re Sitting in the Drop-Off Line - OMG is this a distressing — and well-documented — piece by Charles Marohn at Strong Towns on one reason kids are walking and biking to school less and le...
American Energy Alliance

Whose Policies Are Increasing Electricity Rates? - E&E News reported recently that Senate Democrats gathered to “reinforce a core midterm message: Republican policies have driven up energy prices for Amer...
Harry’s Substack

One quick question - -- that puts ICE in perspective
Quote Investigator

Proverb Origin: Don’t Believe Everything You Think - Tom Sims? Edgar Allan Poe? Mary Margaret McBride? Sidney K. Bennett? Clayton Rawson? George Stracke? Anonymous? Question for Quote Investigator: A commonpl...
The Weekly Sift

Through the Looking Glass - To those who continue to work for ICE: Resign. To those who control this facility: Leave. Through your use of violence and the trampling of the Constitutio...
On Substack

Substack is your corner of the internet - Introducing a new way to build custom spaces and deepen relationships with your subscribers
Roger Partridge I Plain Thinking

The anatomy of usurpation: Climate Clinic Aotearoa v Minister of Energy and Resources - LawNews
Public: Michael Shellenberger

“Compromised” Congressional Commission Is Undermining Trump’s Ukraine Peace Efforts, Says Whistleblower - Former senior official who reported criminal violations by Helsinki Committee, chaired by Senator Roger Wicker, urges investigation by Trump administration
Conspicuous Cognition

We Are Confused, Maladapted Apes Who Need Enlightenment - With Homo sapiens, Darwinian evolution produced a new kind of animal: a species that builds worlds it struggles to understand.
Classical Compass Rose

How to Develop Immunity to Manipulation - Why are tech titans afraid of students reading primary sources? They develop the one skill algorithms can't replicate: the ability to think for themselves.
Can't Get Much Higher

Are the Grammys Sexist? An Update - Women have been dominating The Grammys. Does the trend hold up?
EconLog

How to Flourish (with Daniel Coyle) - Author Daniel Coyle talks with EconTalk’s Russ Roberts on the art of flourishing: why it’s a natural phenomenon rather than mechanical; how taking life’s...
Richard Hanania's Newsletter

The Discourse is Getting Both Smarter and Dumber - Understanding the future of human capital polarization
Institute for Progress

IFP Update: January 2026 - 📣 Announcements
The Honest Broker by Roger Pielke Jr.

Bad Science, Big Consequences - How the influential 2006 Stern Review conjured up escalating future disaster losses
Real Clear Energy: Video

Why You’re Wrong About Nuclear Power - The evidence is clear: nuclear power is the most efficient and safest form of energy we have. And we should have more of it.
Autonomia

Movies: Melania - Amazon’s new film about the First Lady tantalizes
JunkScience.com

20 Years After ‘An Inconvenient Truth’ - My latest at the Daily Caller.
Barrie Saunders

Cutting losses – governments too slow to learn - Updated 3.20pm Business generally works out when to cut losses because the risks of failure are too high for shareholders and workers. Government on the ot...
Change My Mind (Ani O'Brien)

My response to Alice Soper discovering America is bad (again) & calling for a boycott - Another response to another NZ Herald article
Anarchonomicon (CatGirl Kulak)

Ep 23 On the Frontier Against the Invaders w/Rogue Philosophy - A Free wheeling interview on Frontier life, Adventure, Technological society, Hesiod, the Absolute State of Western Civilization, and the illegal Migrant i...
Weekly Wonderings by Carrie-Ann Biondi

Revising a Draft - Learning to See Anew
Gale Winds

Now Available: Superabundance: The Best of 2025 - The Antidote to Irrational Pessimism®
Unmasked (Ian Miller)

THE TRUTH COMES OUT: NIH Director Jay Bhattacharya Nukes The ‘Experts,’ Confirms Lab Leak A ‘Near Certainty' - And that the lab leak was likely linked to the creation of lockdowns and mask mandates
Perennial Meditations

Think on Death, Think on Freedom - Sundays with Seneca (Vol. 8)
Leaving Groupthink, Inc.

Principles versus propaganda - How we stay grounded despite chaos.
misfits' architecture

Good To Go (a.k.a. Part 3) - Villa Rotonda and Haus am Horn don’t look very similar on the outside and even less similar on the inside, but both are biaxially symmetrical and both have...
The Beauty of Things

The Plan Revisited - The Beauty of Things turns 3 today! Personal poetry news and expressions of gratitude. PLUS: University of St. Thomas (Houston) MFA information
The Future of Being Human

Lost in the Moltbook Hall of Mirrors - A new "Social Network for AI Agents" is breaking the internet. And things are getting weird ...
Tim’s Substack

The Taliban Return to Jalalabad - Phase 3 of the Tanker Wars
Tross Publishing

NEW BOOK FROM TROSS PUBLISHING - It is with both pleasure and pride that Tross Publishing presents a new, ground-breaking book, "Who was behind the Bolshevik Revolution?" by Ron Asher. R...
The Most Endangered Species (Jeffrey Falk)

Brief Updates - Following Up on Three Recent Reports
Let Grow

Mama Bear and the 5th Grade Bullying Incident - [image: Ann Mohr Biker Gang] What do you do when you hear your kid is being bullied on the bus? Read on! Annie Mohr is one of the three parents in our “Giv...
Yaw's Brief: Guns, Trade, Cobalt & Africa Beyond Colonialism

Biafra: When Nigeria Almost Broke Apart - Secession was tried. It failed. Here’s why.
Construction Physics

Reading List for 01/31/2026 - Welcome to the Reading List, a weekly roundup of news and links related to buildings, infrastructure, and industrial technology.
Freedom and Flourishing

Do people judge my book by its cover design? - I don't know the answer to that question. I doubt that cover design has much influence on judgements that people make about books after they have read...
52 Rhetoric Tips by Robert Begley

Rhetoric Tip #32: Climbing Without a Rope - One skyscraper. One message. No safety net.
The Realization of Wholeness

Varieties of Dualism, Part Three - "I am a soul tethered to a body."
The obscure word of the week is cudweed – Matthew Wright

All about the latest writing scams - There’s a new writing scam doing the rounds just now. Authors are being stalked online by strangers purporting to represent a ‘book club’, or who are ‘affi...
Blog - The Entrepreneurs Network

Ideas to Impact - One of the best things about running The Entrepreneurs Network is meeting genuinely extraordinary people at our events each week — people building incred...
Ed Zitron's Where's Your Ed At

Premium: The Hater's Guide to Oracle - You can’t avoid Oracle. No, really, you can’t. Oracle is everywhere. It sells ERP software – enterprise resource planning, which is a rat king of differe...
Greg Mankiw's Blog

Congrats to President Trump and Kevin Warsh - As readers of this blog know, I am not a fan of most of President Trump's economic policy, especially regarding international trade. But today the presid...
The Enlightened Examiner

Collectivized Immigration - Renée Good and Alex Pretti are the latest victims of the phenomenon Ayn Rand terms “collectivized ethics.”
The Enlightened Examiner

Collectivized Immigration - Renée Good and Alex Pretti are the latest victims of the phenomenon Ayn Rand terms “collectivized ethics.”
Risk & Progress

Currency: From Cowrie Shells to Crypto - How we dematerialized the dollar
pre[FABRICA]tions

Prefabrication experiments - 498 - Platforms : Bridging the Gap between Construction and Manufacturing - Decades after large-scale building programs in almost every industrialized nation, prefab, offsite and industrialized building systems’ use remains marg...
SAVVY STREET

Transcript: Podcast with Professor of Mathematics James Franklin - A philosophical discussion on ethics and mathematics. The post Transcript: Podcast with Professor of Mathematics James Franklin appeared first on SAVVY S...
Kibao

Africa Treats Its Diaspora Like a Bank Account, Not a Brain Trust - Numerous platforms exist to mobilize diaspora financial capital. Can we do the same for people and their expertise?
A Havenstein Moment.

Powell is unsustainable. - Plus, rampant goldbuggery!
CO2 Coalition

Real Environmental Crisis Is Not Climate Change - By Vijay Jayaraj What if the worst environmental problem wasn’t the one everyone is talking about? While Western elites sip fair-trade coffee and obsess ...
HardmoneyJim

Panic buying in the gold market - EXPECT EXTREME VOLATILITY. CHASING THIS RALLY COULD BE VERY RISKY. I AM NOT SELLING MY PHYSICAL GOLD.
Libertarian Land

The Trump-Kennedy Center - The Kennedy Center Board of Trustees voted recently to change the Center’s name to the Trump-Kennedy Center. Beyond concerns about whether such a change re...
History Reclaimed

Professor David Abulafia - David Abulafia died on 24th January 2026. We pay tribute to our friend and colleague
The New York Review of Books

The Crime of Witness - Renée Good and Alex Pretti were murdered for daring to interfere with the Trump administration’s efforts to normalize abductions and state violence.
High Capacity

Podcast: China's top AI players and their differing AI strategies - A deep dive into the key players in China's AI industry
The Cobden Centre

Making sense of historical data - By Dr Frank Shostak In order to make the data “talk,” economists utilize a range of statistical methods that vary from highly complex models...
Kiwipolitico

Acquiescence is not consent, or a basis for rule. - As a follow up to my previous post (and harkening to a regular theme in my writing), consider this: Used as the basis for authority, repression obeys a for...
The Prophet of Causation

The Metaphysics of a Corn Seed - Chapter 9
Interintellect

Reflections on the Telemachy, Books 1-4 of The Odyssey - Mythology as delight, Mentor(ship), and Xenia
Outliving Iran

How to Be a Hero - Nothing is too terrifying if you understand it
Building the Builders

The psychology of evil - How to think about the worst in your friends, your enemies, and yourself
PM of NZ

And you pay this poser $0.5m or more? - It is now almost a week into the tragedy at the mount. And the overpaid tosser that poses as your Mayor today finally admits that council staff were inde...
Robert Nasir’s Joyous Newsletter

What Can You Do, When You Have To Deal With People? - Yes, there is an answer ... quite a few, in fact! Here are five of them, each & all of which can make your life better!
Macroscience

Five Prescriptions for Simplifying Science Policy - Some thoughts on a National Academies’ report on reforming federal science.
Stewart Margolis

What Is An Objectivist? - I was rather surprised when someone I have known in the Objectivist movement for forty years publicly proclaimed that he would no longer be calling himself...
Political Currents by Ross Barkan

The Dying Animal - MAGA in twilight
One Useful Thing

Management as AI superpower - Thriving in a world of agents
The Shrewd Artist

Midnight Thoughts - What I thought about while simultaneously painting an all-nighter.
The Shrewd Artist by Michael Newberry

Midnight Thoughts - What I thought about while simultaneously painting an all-nighter.
The Trichordist

Don’t Sell What You Don’t Have: Why AB 1349’s Crackdown on Speculative Event Tickets Matters to Touring Artists and Fans - After years of just talk, there is new momentum federally and in the states to fix how concert and event tickets are sold and resold. California AB 1349 co...
RenewNZ

Zero Day comes for the Iranian regime - Last year reports emerged that Tehran, the capital city of Iran, was running out of water. One expert predicted that “zero day” was not far off. As the Isl...
The Intrinsic Perspective

It Only Snows Like This for Children - The Lore of the World: Snow
Mr. and Mrs. Psmith’s Bookshelf

JOINT REVIEW: Philosophy Between the Lines, by Arthur M. Melzer - Philosophy Between the Lines: The Lost History of Esoteric Writing, Arthur M.
Africa-Israel Weekly

'iShowSpeed' Shows Arab Racism, (Slavery) of Black Africans - Like Black Eldridge Cleaver in 1969. popular Black American Influencer given rude awakening in Algeria
Stu-Topia

Which Is Her Real Personality? All of Them - Stuart K. Hayashi There is a hit video-game visual-novel called Slay the Princess. It’s independent, made mostly by a husband-and-wife team. What is meant ...
Think Right or Wrong, Not Left or Right

Keeping Up with the Jones Act - Thinking morally Right or Wrong, not politically left or right demands repealing the Jones Act.
Flying Out

Into Oblivion (Vinyl LP) - *Vendor: *Century Media *Type: *LAMB OF GOD *Price: * 77.00 *LAMB OF GOD*’s tenth album, *Into Oblivion*, sees them embracing their position as music ve...
Conflicted

Pardon me, your intent is showing - How a National Academy of Science event created an organization that legitimizes severe constraint on open debate about climate and energy
The War on Prices

Profit-Led Inflation: Trivial or Wrong? - A good new overview from Christopher Conlon
visa's voltaic verses ⚡️

on tedium - repeatedly doing a thing that's not working
Gross Output

The Divided Economy: Business Still Trying to Catch Up to the Consumer Boom - “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...
PERC - Property + Environment Research Center

New Report: Texas Water Policy Can Promote Conservation and Limit Waste - Voluntary water markets offer a path to protect farms, cities, and rivers without mandates The post New Report: Texas Water Policy Can Promote Conservati...
The Future of Freedom Foundation

Our Expanding Immigration-Control Tyranny - One can hope that the tyranny that is settling in on America will cause a critical mass of the American people to engage in some serious soul-searching a...
Spiked Online

spiked summit 2026 – supporter tickets - The spiked summit takes place *Saturday 27 June 2026* in Westminster – a flagship live event featuring bold debate, live Q&As and 500+ engaged attendees....
Eat More Electrons

What is Think Tank impact? (And what is it not?) - Why no one should care about your 18 reports
Liberty Scott

Loony leftwing teachers - In the UK... *"A Labour MP was prevented from visiting a school in his constituency because the teaching unions and the Palestine Solidarity Campaign do ...
Public Lands – PERC

A Better Way To Fund National Parks—Paid For By Their Most Eager Visitors - When those tourists visit national parks, they’ll be supporting them more than ever. The post A Better Way To Fund National Parks—Paid For By Their Most ...
Michael Newberry, Artist

The Payoff of Visual Perception: Exaltation - Seeing through an artist’s eyes Another work that recently came back into my possession is this life drawing on red paper (1987), I was 30, and it was the ...
Leport’s Substack

Looking for reviews - Dear friends and family,
Institute of Economic Affairs

Never forgetting the absurdities of fascism - ‘Classics Revisited’ revisits a publication from a previous century from a present-day perspective, to show how much, or how little, … Continue reading "...
Notes On Liberty

New issue of Isonomia Quarterly coming out soon - In February. Perhaps it’ll even be on time. Until then, check out last quarter’s issue here. And don’t forget to subscribe. Paying subscribers get print co...
What You Can Do For Liberty

Top 25 Liberty Events and Conferences in 2026 - Want to make new friends, learn about liberty, and network with pro-liberty thinkers?
Precise Thinking

Mary’s Monumental Survival - The Secular Side of the Story
Too Clever By Half

What's wrong with Blogger's responsive themes? - *A CATALOG OF DISCONTENTS ¶ * [image: A man wearing horn-rimmed glasses holding his hand in front of him with his thumb pointing down] So why do the Re...
Private Lands – PERC

Clear Rules Are Key to Effective Wetlands Conservation - Conserving wetlands is a worthwhile investment, but more regulation does not automatically mean better conservation. The post Clear Rules Are Key to Effe...
Maximum Progress

The Timeless Way of Building - Christopher Alexander on the design of cities and homes
The Many Ways I Let You Down

כָּל הַמְאַבֵּד נֶפֶשׁ אַחַת… כְּאִלּוּ אִבֵּד עוֹלָם מָלֵא - Saying Goodbye to Playwright Stanley Makuwe
Theatreview

Aroha Awarau - Playmarket New Zealand Playmarket is deeply saddened by the passing of playwright Aroha Awarau. A champion for Māori story sovereignty, Aroha built a caree...
Competitive Enterprise Institute

The Attention Wars: Why Netflix Is Buying the Past to Own the Future - The old “streaming wars” are over; the “attention wars” have begun. In the new battle, Netflix’s strategic acquisition of Warner Bros’ Discovery makes pe...
Competitive Enterprise Institute

The Attention Wars: Why Netflix Is Buying the Past to Own the Future - The old “streaming wars” are over; the “attention wars” have begun. In the new battle, Netflix’s strategic acquisition of Warner Bros’ Discovery makes pe...
Fictionosophy

Persuasion: Or, When to Trust Your Own Judgment - Persuasion’s moral is subtler than many of Austen’s other novels but it is nevertheless timeless and important if we want to make good decisions.
In Due Course

What colourblindness hath wrought - One of the more questionable trends in social justice thinking over the past decade has been the suggestion that there is something wrong with “colourblind...
HBL

Trump’s Gestapo is now murdering protestors - ICE is Trump’s Gestapo or SS. They have no proper function, no constitutional authorization, and are loyal to Trump personally. In Minneapolis on Wednesday...
Splitting Headache

Somethings: Mightier than the sword - My favorite pen, electric dreams and a really (un)lucky woman
Age of Invention, by Anton Howes

Age of Invention: Tudor Trade War - The true effects of Henry VII's "industrial policy"
The Scholar's Stage

35 Theses on the WASPs - On the Rise and Fall of a Past Establishment
The Kerrant

Thinking Small Is How You Stay Small - Brian Easton is right about one thing: New Zealand is small. Where he go...
Dramatic Pause

How I Review: Madeleine Chapman - In the third edition of how I review, an interview with journalist and author Madeleine Chapman.
Regan's Substack

Socialism is for losers - And Capitalism doesn't need a PR team
Africa’s Bright Future

Why I Sued Próspera Africa for Defamation - Update on my efforts to advance startup cities in Africa
Virginia Postrel

Recent Work and an Exciting New Project - Plus recommended reading
Note to Noteworthy

Christianity Inverts Morality - Christian morality distorts the true purpose of morality, turning a tool for flourishing into a destroyer of life.
Texas Institute for Property Rights

The End is Near - I am no longer posting on this website. You can continue reading my posts at jbrianphillips.com The post The End is Near appeared first on Texas Institut...
Grandmotherly Wisdom

Are You the Queen of Your House or Just a Lowly Servant? - Maybe I don’t have to serve my house all the time, maybe it is my house that exists to serve me.
Earthly Idealism

The Warmth of Collectivism - “We will replace the frigidity of rugged individualism with the warmth of collectivism.” So said New York’s new mayor, socialist Zohran Mamdani.
Thinking Directions

Value Jars, an Emotional Resilience Tool - Emotional resilience is your ability to recover quickly after you get triggered, so that you can take a purposeful, value-oriented emotion. The more emot...
Mike’s Substack

Seinfeld and the Science of Education - Jerry Seinfeld once remarked that, “No one really knows what’s funny.” That line struck me as deeply honest—and strangely scientific.
Mike’s Substack

Seinfeld and the Science of Education - Jerry Seinfeld once remarked that, “No one really knows what’s funny.” That line struck me as deeply honest—and strangely scientific.
Keith Weiner Economics

Reflections Over 2025 - I know I was busy this year. But now I see that the last piece I wrote for the blog was Reflections Over 2024! And I did almost no writing for Monetary Met...
Austrian Economics Newsletter

Money And Collateral - Roasted Barley Is No Substitute For Coffee!
round houses

restoring the house of tomorrow - In the early 1930s, the house of the future, as conceived of by architect George Fred Keck, was round (or, technically, 12-sided) and had floor-to-ceiling ...
Reason for Living

Try Declarations, Not Resolutions, for 2026 - I’m trying an alternative to New Year's resolutions this year: New Year’s declarations.
Houston Strategies

2025 Highlights - Happy New Year! Time for our annual round-up of the best posts of 2025, with this year featuring as many (or more!) great posts from Oscar as from me. If y...
Anti-Dismal

Coase versus Becker on utility maximisation - Ronald Coase and Gary Becker explain and discuss the theory of rational maximizing utility. They describe how consumers rank preferences and then attempt t...
Wright in Racine

Wright’s Unrealized YWCA For Racine - © Mark Hertzberg (2025) Frank Lloyd Wright had a commission from H.F. Johnson Jr. to design a new YWCA building in Racine, Wisconsin in 1949. I first wrote...
What's New Under the Sun

Innovation Job Market Papers 2025 (2/2) - Dozens of papers from new PhDs about Innovation
Global Shield's Newsletter

Global Shield Briefing (24 December 2025) - Resolving the governance gap and institutionalizing global risk reduction
Bowalley Road (Chris Trotter)

Good News Story. - *Gospel:* What, after all, is a magic spell, if not a formulation of words to effect actual change in the real world? Wasn’t that why the Greek followers ...
Objective Standard Institute

Zachary Porcu and Craig Biddle on the Foundations of Knowledge - Craig had a thoughtful discussion with Zachary Porcu on the source and nature of knowledge.
Wildlife – PERC

It’s Time to Stop Treating Threatened and Endangered Species the Same - A public comment on the proposed rescission of the “blanket rule” that regulates threatened species as if they were endangered The post It’s Time to Stop...
The China Space Monitor

The Chinese Academy of Sciences' Space Program - Plus overseas announcements from Star.Vision, GeeSpace, and SpaceIoT, lots more SatNet Satellites, and a Zhuque-3 partial success (plus me on TV!)
Thoughts from the North (Garry Judd KC)

Bondi, Tarrant, victimhood, faith, the primitive, relativism, cultural boundaries of knowledge - Can humanity be rescued from irrationality
The Cultural Futurist (Rachel Haywire)

Staying True and Pure - I didn’t need validation from people who couldn’t understand the depth of my essence.
Cranmer’s Substack

The Architecture of a Capable State: Why Cuts, Cosmetic Fixes and Good Intentions are not enough - Keynote address to the New Zealand Taxpayers’ Union AGM – 15 December 2025
Boom (UK)

How South Korea's job market motivates intensive parenting - A new article in Works in Progress & some extra context
Johnny Grey Studios

Christmas Newsletter 2025 - As we just about manage to cope with the darkness and the news, the coming time of hibernation will be welcome – if of course you are lucky enough to be ta...
Offsetting Behaviour

Surely a case for outcome-based contracting - Outcome-based contracting would have solved this: A stop smoking provider says the decision to cut its contract on the basis it has refused to hand out v...
Catherine Mosse

Inflation: an economic problem or a source of political polarization? - In his book Economics in One Lesson, Henry Hazlitt explains how inflation polarizes society by creating a sense of injustice.As inflation accelerates, peop...
M.M.E.F. News

Great news!! MMEF have secured a permanent home for the AMI 3-6 Diploma, starting in April 2026 - Kia ora Koutou MMEF Supporters, Yes, we used two exclamation marks in our headline above--that's because we are so excited! Our latest news, whi...
New Ideal – Reason | Individualism | Capitalism

How Drug Boats Could Be Used to Rationalize an Unjust War with Venezuela - Podcast audio: [powerpress] In this episode of the Ayn Rand Institute podcast, Ben Bayer and Elan Journo discuss the recent American attacks on alleged d...
Ruxandra’s Substack

A manifesto for reviving biopharma productivity - When it comes to Eroom's Law, some of the most important problems are the boring ones
Croaking Cassandra

And that is that - About 15 years ago (partly thanks to a couple of years at Treasury, partly to the financial crises in the US and Europe) I started to get much more systema...
Roots of Progress

Announcing Progress in Medicine, a high school summer career exploration program - Starting today, high school students can apply to Progress in Medicine, a new program by the Roots of Progress Institute. What the Progress in Medicine p...
Pablo’s Translations

EL SEXO Y LOS VALORES - —por Jim Ashley, 9 de diciembre, 2023
A Politically Incorrect History of New Zealand

New Zealand: A Nation of the Enlightenment - “It is sometimes forgotten that New Zealand, as a neo-European society, is a securely post-Enlightenment society…. a very particular example of post- ...
Jackson Upmann

Altruism Is Not the Same Thing as Being Kind - The moral confusion that turns generosity into self-destruction.
A City for People

Cities need infrastructure to grow, but Roads of National Significance ain’t it - Tell the government that Wellington deserves better in the next two weeks!
Democracy Project

New website: www.democracyproject.org.nz - The Democracy Project is now hosted here: www.democracyproject.org.nz The main content of the Democracy Project is at this new site, where you can sign u...
Syncretica

AI Bubble or Not - Getting specific about what bubble
Principled Perspectives

On the Trump/Mamdani 'Lovefest' - My FB Post: “For all the hype of a conflict, President Trump and New York City's next mayor, Zohran Mamdani, had a surprising bond when they met Friday ...
Seiler on Science

Thomas Kuhn’s Copernican Revolution - Reflections on a classic in the history of science
Hunters and Anglers – PERC

Pulling Wetlands Conservation Out of the Political Muck - Ideas for policy and market innovations that can improve wetland conservation The post Pulling Wetlands Conservation Out of the Political Muck appeared ...
Eating Policy

Outcomes Review: Realigning Legislative Incentives - How might a state legislature shift from outputs to outcomes?
Miss Liberty's Film & Documentary World

Happy Veterans Day! - Freedom isn’t free. Here’s a sweet short film as thanks to the armed forces, who have held at bay those who would take our freedom from us. Happy Veteran...
Anna Gát: Eleven Sentence Essays

Strangers - America's "stranger culture" changes your personality.
American Innocence by Anna Gát

Strangers - America's "stranger culture" changes your personality.
Folarinism

👀 🎧 New podcast: ALT BLACK POD - Three contrarian voices unpack the culture — identity, power, and the post-woke internet. Ft. Inaya Folarin Iman, Ralph Leonard and Renie Anjeh
StephenFranks.co.nz

Is free speech a right wing conspiracy? - When I was a left wing student, protesting against NZ’s Security Intelligence Service, the Vietnam War and other trending causes, it would have been inconc...
Overthinking Everything

Making connections - If two people seem like they should know each other and don't, maybe you should fix that.
A life just as ordinary

Herevana – #206 – Garage Project – Mountain Call - Mountain Call, a 7.2% Farmhouse Ale from Garage Project’s Wild Workshop, combines sour elements with smoky Lapsang Souchong tea. While initially sweet and ...
Asymmetric Information

Are capital gains taxes fair?🍋 - NZ lacks a specific capital gains tax. But introducing one may not increase fairness.
Austin Vernon's Substack

A Nuclear Fission Regulatory Blank Slate - What if nuclear regulations were reset?
Plain Sight

Constrained and framed? The limitation of academic freedom by research funding and strategies - While most debate on academic freedom concerns the question of what can be stated, argued, proffered and responded to – and how, such a focus has enabled a...
Growing to Truth

Western Values or “Unity”: Republicans Can’t Have Both - Why are many Republican leaders refusing to condemn racist and authoritarian rhetoric within the party?
Growing to Truth

Western Values or “Unity”: Republicans Can’t Have Both - Why are many Republican leaders refusing to condemn racist and authoritarian rhetoric within the party?
Science+Story

Researchers: Start With 'What Would Be Missing?' - Because research stories are stories, not buckets for everything you do.
The Truth Fairy

When Your Child is Sick - (And: Come See Me This Thursday, October 16, in Beverly Hills!)
The Organon Architecture Blog

"Nature Near" - I was lucky enough to be invited to contribute to the local *Montessori Voices* magazine, on the vital importance of bringing nature near. It's as impor...
Freethink Media

Reversing the aging process is worth $38T. But is it possible? - Aging kills 100,000 people a day. Here’s why scientists believe that can change.
Journal of Free Black Moms

Ep. 17 - Change the World Be a Mom (Sheila Qualls) - Listen now | An interview with wife and mother of five Sheila Qualls
Better things are possible

Progress on the Carrington (UNITEC) housing development - In 2023, I published the following post on the plans for the development of land that was formerly part of the Carrington UNITEC Campus.
Peter Winsley

How can more young people enter careers and fulfil their potential - Many young New Zealanders feel that a social contract has been breached. This tacit contract is that, if students worked and studied hard, the government ...
Notes On Liberty

If you haven't already... - ...please subscribe to this new magazine
Musk Watch

Musk invokes "rape of Europe" in anti-immigrant rant - On X, Elon Musk has spent the past week cheering on anti-immigrant protests and political movements worldwide, including in England, Wales, Ireland, Japan,...
FDR Liberated

Designing an Effective Retail Checkout Counter to Enhance Customer Experience - A well-designed retail checkout counter is more than just a register—it’s one of the most important touchpoints in a customer’s shopping journey. It sets t...
Museum Street (Henry Cooke)

Who are the voters swinging away from Christopher Luxon? - An investigation into the voters who switched from Labour to National in 2023 - and are trending away from the party now. Featuring a lot of charts.
Happy Future

Surviving Involution - How long can China eat itself?
Anton Zenith

I Learned to Be Still, and Life Got Louder - Finding the symphony hidden in the spaces between moments
Jack’s Substack

Good News for Euro 6 - New Zealand to import only Euro 6d vehicles from 2028
Science For Everyone

We've moved! - Science for Everyone is still at scienceforeveryone.science, but no longer on Substack
Fisheries – PERC

The National Environmental Policy Act and Climate Change Adaption Within Federal Natural Resource Management Agencies - This academic paper explores how NEPA may be hindering federal agencies from adapting to climate change. The post The National Environmental Policy Act ...
Wright Chat

Click Here for General Discussion Posts • Article: "Step Back in Time at These 12 Frank Lloyd Wright Houses Across the USA" - Step Back in Time at These 12 Frank Lloyd Wright Houses Across the USA David Statistics: Posted by DavidC — Mon Jul 14, 2025 9:35 pm ---------------------...
Science for Health

Think glass is safer? It might actually have more microplastics than plastic bottles—because of the caps! - https://www.technologynetworks.com/applied-sciences/news/drinks-in-glass-bottles-contain-more-microplastics-than-those-plastic-bottles-401316
The Upheaval

Important Announcements - I’m going in, this Substack's going on ice, and a book is coming
Down to Earth Kiwi

DownToEarth.Kiwi Closing Due to Threats from National & Labour Parties & Big Business NZ Incorporated - It'd be nice to think we've added something these past years to improve the prosperity of NZ. We were the only economic commentary source...
Ideas Beyond Borders

Gamal Abdel Nasser's Last Gamble - Inside the private conversation where Egypt’s president confronted the lies, the losses, and an Arab world that wouldn’t fight the war it claimed to want
Butterpaper

Happy 100 Art Deco, or maybe not - The Art deco style turns 100 this month. Sort of. But what was it then, what is it now, and how did it become associated with architecture? Architecture ...
The Free Market Futurist

Farmville - The Autonomous Future of Agriculture
No Punches Pulled

THE WORKING FROM HOME RACKET BY PUBLIC SERVANTS - Last year the government announced the working from home racket by public servants was to cease from January, 2025. The public service protested and since ...
AYN RAND CENTRE (UK)

Password Reset - Reset Password Reset Your Password The post Password Reset appeared first on AYN RAND CENTRE.
Skeptic

We’re moving to skeptic.com! - As of April 2, 2025, this Substack will serve as an archive and will no longer be active.
Demystifying Science

Introduction to “The Princess Scientist” - As a female and mother who navigated the world of academia in the biomedical sciences, I have been working on a book that talks about the real “sex discrim...
John Paquette

LLMs and the Nature of Honest Authorship - Editing is not authoring.
Tribes – PERC

10 Ideas for the Interior Department - How to accelerate conservation and cut green tape The post 10 Ideas for the Interior Department appeared first on PERC.
Stories by Rudi Edsall on Medium

Round 1 2025 — The Smithening - I posted my last blog on the Cats on June 6 2023 — a marvel at how we’d beaten the Western Bulldogs with no midfield to speak of — and it’s fair to say a...
Rosie Campbell

I'm going to work on AI welfare at Eleos AI Research! - We need to start taking seriously the implications of digital minds—both for their potential welfare and our own.
CEE – Econlib

Tariffs - A tariff is a fancy word for a tax. The term usually refers to import duties, which are fees levied on goods entering one country from another. Import ta...
Case Closed

February 2025 Space Stock Review - Includes Commentary on ASTS, RKLB, RDW, LUNR, PL, SPIR, SESG, and ETL
Yes In Our Backyards

Supermarkets: More stories of how councils accidentally on purpose banned competition - My previous post, Supermarket YIMBYism, got a bit of traction.
thesecondrenaissance

Finding Meaning and Purpose in a Godless Universe - In the 1880s, German philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche was at his intellectual peak.
Don't Let It Go

Apple Shrugs - a haiku “Nice encryption there… except we’ll need a back door.” “What encryption? Where?” (Inspired by Apple’s decision to pull its iCloud end-to-end encry...
Ayn Rand Society

Papers on Valuing and Desires from our January 2025 session - Please find the following papers attached:
The Ayn Rand Society

Papers on Valuing and Desires from our January 2025 session - Please find the following papers attached:
Creative Deduction

Libertarian Rescue Mission: Can Milei save the Peso? - Javier Milei shocked the political establishment when he romped to victory in the Argentine Presidential election in 2023. A proud anarcho-capitalist, he t...
Punishingly Haimona

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The intolerable alliance. - Mexico's state and Mexico's cartels, a singular threat.
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Sri Lanka – in the news for the wrong reason - First Published in May 2022. I’ve just returned from an unsettling trip to Sri Lanka. The country has run of of fuel, electricity and dollars. Some pla...
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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...
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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...
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...
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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...
Andrew Bernstein

Full Interview With Andrew Bernstein On Decline Of US Education - Here is my interview with Dennis Prager from last Thursday. The topic is my 2022 book “Why Johnny Still Can’t Read or Write or Understand Math—And What We ...
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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 ...
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...
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...
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...
TVHE

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...
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
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Genesis -
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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...
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Understanding Trumpers - WSJ oped and substack post.
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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...
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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...
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...
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
Uranium-238

Introduction to the Iran Nuclear Deal - Putting a price on nonproliferation
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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
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Alastair Cavendish: British Freedom

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The Gutter

Woden's Day Thing: 4/26/22 - All right already
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...
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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...
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...
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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

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Adam Smith’s Enlightened World

Activity: The Virtue of Beneficence - Use this quotation from Adam Smith's The Theory of Moral Sentiments to discuss whether we can be forced to be generous and kind.
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What you still can't say on Twitter - Suspended for 12 hours
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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...
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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...
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Asian Invasion 2019

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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 ...
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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
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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...
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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...
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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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1828 – Championing Freedom

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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....
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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 New Atlantis

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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...
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...
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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...
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Malthouse Blog

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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…
Mencken's Ghost

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Joakim Book | Life of an Econ Student

Publications, January - Welcome to the next decade! Exciting, isn't it? There are some minor changes here too. From now on, I'll post some of my work on Medium –particularly work ...
Center for the Legalization of Privacy

Facebook & Government Responses to CLP Amicus Brief Reveal Conflicting Views of Your Privacy Under Imminent Settlement - Those of you who have been following CLP’s involvement in United States v. Facebook know that, in our amicus brief … Continue reading →
positive check

From West to East: Bolivian regional GDPs since the 1950s - *José Peres-Cajías* *Universitat de Barcelona* The political disruption that is taking place worldwide during the last years has prompted the proliferati...
Open Borders: The Case

Immigration Reform or Revolution? - The idea of unconditionally open international borders, and entirely free migration across them, faces a great deal of resistance. Resistance comes, not on...
Quote Unquote

Holding pattern - I am to attend the next meeting of the Hamilton Press Club on Friday the 13th – speaker: Patrick Gower – so should have a report to post next week. Also th...
The Devil's Kitchen

Own Jones telling... - Via Timmy, I see that Owen Jones *keeps* writing articles... Why I am campaigning for Labour in this seismic election Presumably it's because you're an evi...
Irshad Manji

01/20/2020 – Atlanta, GA - MLK Day 2020: Irshad speaks at the official service to commemorate the 91st birthday and timeless legacy of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. From the sanctuar...
Legalize Privacy

CLP Amicus Brief Gets Coverage in Law360! - Law360, a legal news site for professionals, published an article about three amicus briefs filed in United States v. Facebook. … Continue reading →
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,
Travel Secrets by Shar Lemond

Travel Secrets: In Defense of Men’s Rights - The theme of the Travel Secrets trilogy is femininity. In book one, our heroine, Rachel, was battling her own demons as she conquered her misconception of ...
Thoughts from 40° South

The Evil of Equity - The New Zealand Government has caught the equity bug. Everywhere you look they are trying to achieve it. I asked a senior public servant recently what he ...
Kuo's Gulch | Justice, Independence, Productivity, Honesty, Integrity, Pride, Rationality

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Inductive Quest

William Whewell’s “Discoverer’s Induction” (Part 4) - Previous posts: William Whewell's "Discoverer's Induction" (Part 1) William Whewell's "Discoverer's Induction" (Part 2) William Whewell's "Discoverer's Ind...
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...
from FEE

The Loophole in a Famous Adage on Limited Government - Ritual obeisance to principles can easily be combined with inflating government’s role to metastasize far beyond general welfare.
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 ...
Cities Matter

Amalgamation and Streamlining City Governance: the Auckland Experiment So Far - *The performance of the Super City – so far, so so* Previous posts indicate that amalgamating local government in Auckland has not yielded efficiencies. Ca...
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...
Professor Werner

Shifting from Central Planning to a Decentralised Economy - by Professor Richard A. Werner, D.Phil. (Oxon) Paper presented at the 14th Rhodes Forum: Dialogue of Civilisations Research Institute, Panel 2: […]
News - Democracy Action

Free Speech - Bruce Moon speaks out in Nelson - Bruce Moon, a retired physicist and avid historian, was invited by the Nelson Institute to give a talk at Nelson’s Elma Turner Library, on 8th April. He ...
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...
sportreview.net.nz

Chipping in for Kane on The Spinoff - sportreview.net.nz was lucky enough to contribute to top website The Spinoff, plumping for Kane Williamson as our greatest ever batsman, despite him only b...
Oswald Bastable's Ranting

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Ockham on Induction - Summa Logicae, part 3-3, chapters 31–36, trans. John P. McCaskey, September 18, 2017 The text here is from Opera Philosophica, The post Ockham on Inducti...
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For The New Intellectual

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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...
Drinks and Drinking

What’s the Best Sparkling Water for Cocktails? - We’re here to talk about sparkling water in cocktails. But first: My Obsessive Nature, a.k.a. A Briefish, Seemingly Unrelated Disclaimer on Why Its Hard to...
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

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Politics without God

The Right to Die: Philosophy in Action Podcast - On Sunday's episode of Philosophy in Action Radio, I answered a question on the right to die. The question was: Should a person who does not wish to live b...
The PRODOS blog

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Willing and Eager Subjects in Training - Obama recently cautioned a group of graduating college kids that some of the arguments flowing to them via their "iPods and iPads and Xboxes and PlayStatio...
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