Not PC: "Never delegate understanding." #QotD

Saturday, January 5, 2019

"Never delegate understanding." #QotD

"Never delegate understanding."
~ after designer Charles Eames: one of 14 "Eamesian Parables".

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Bet On It (Bryan Caplan)

The Ethics of Business with Niklas Anziger - Here’s my new podcast on *Pro-Market and Pro-Business* with Prospera’s Niklas Anziger. Happy holidays!
Blog - The Entrepreneurs Network

Three Big Ideas #52 - *Three Big Ideas* is our fortnightly roundup of ideas (and our takes on them) in entrepreneurship, innovation, science and technology, handpicked by the ...
The Rebuild

Everyone Gets to Dream, No One Gets Left Behind - Senator Gallego Delivers a Real Housing Agenda
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.
pre[FABRICA]tions

Prefabrication experiments - 496 - Refabricating Architecture (2004) - Manifestoes claiming how offsite construction can inflect productivity and reform construction from site intensive to factory-intensive processes have ...
SAVVY STREET

The Moral Defense of Trump’s Venezuelan Move - Would Ayn Rand find Trump’s ousting of Maduro morally defensible? The post The Moral Defense of Trump’s Venezuelan Move appeared first on SAVVY STREET.
Existential Crunch

End time economics - Supply and demand after global catastrophes
GeekPress

Mathematical Puzzles - *Peter Winkler*: "Mathematical Puzzles". These look awesome.
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...
A Halfling's View

The Maduro Indictment - The Intersection of Law and Politics
The Redneck Intellectual by C. Bradley Thompson

When Marx Met Jesus - Part 10c in a series . . .
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...
Stoicism: Philosophy as a Way of Life

How I got off to a bad start in life - From being kicked out of school to a career in philosophy and psychotherapy
Beautiful Wisdom, by Peter Saint-Andre

Writing Blank Verse - Beyond the Line
Institute for Progress

IFP Update: New Science Funding Edition - It's time to seed new institutions of science and technology for the 21st century
Roy Spencer, PhD.

Tropical Tropospheric Temperature Trends, 1979-2025: The Epic Climate Model Failure Continues - As a follow-on to my recent post regarding global surface air temperature trends (1979-2025) and how they compare to climate models, this is an update on a...
Changing Lanes

Whatever Happened to the Uber Bezzle? - How Uber outlived its own autopsy
Toppermost

Mazzy Star - Mazzy Star formed in 1988 in Santa Monica, California. The band's creative principals were guitarist and instrumentalist David Roback and singer and lyri...
Stats Chat

NFL Predictions for the Divisional Finals - Team Ratings for the Divisional Finals The basic method is described on my Department home page. Here are the team ratings prior to this week’s games, al...
Real Clear Energy: Video

Steel Production: How Does It Work? - Mike Rowe takes a look into the grind and efforts steel production workers endure as they produce a huge component of the US economy on ‘How America Works’.
Schiffradio.com

Trump Fed Feud Sends Gold and Silver Soaring - Peter Schiff examines the soaring prices of gold and silver, critiques Trump's Fed policies, and discusses the implications for the dollar and global mar...
Roberto’s Substack

The Axis of Oppression: Iran, Islam, and the Postmodern Left’s Betrayal of Freedom - Introduction: A Regime on the Brink, a World in Denial
Rational Ground by Justin Hart

They Planned It: How Big Pharma PURPOSELY Deceived Regulators about Vax DNA Contamination - I’ve written before about unresolved questions surrounding mRNA vaccine manufacturing and regulatory oversight, particularly where transparency and enforce...
The Weekly Sift

Two Options - They’re telling you to believe them and not your eyes. … So the message from this administration is clear: only they determine the truth, and when their fo...
eugyppius: a plague chronicle

Why Jonathan Ross was legally justified in shooting Renée Good - Not everyone liked my last post.
Conspicuous Cognition

The harder it is to find the truth, the easier it is to lie to ourselves - A simple observation with complex implications
Greg Mankiw's Blog

Statement on the Federal Reserve - Here is the link. I paste a copy below. The Federal Reserve’s independence and the public’s perception of that independence are critical for economic pe...
Conflicted

Stratego - US withdrawal from the UNFCCC and IPCC misreads the value of these institutions (it's not about climate at all)
Mr. and Mrs. Psmith’s Bookshelf

REVIEW: How to Solve It, by George Pólya - How to Solve It: A New Aspect of Mathematical Method, George Pólya (Princeton University Press, 1945).
Africa-Israel Weekly

Slave Owners Fighting the 'Occupation' - Another 'Free Palestine' activist discovers the Arab Enslavement of Africans
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
Kiwipolitico

Media Link: Pablo on ICE. - In light of the shooting in Minneapolis this past week of an unarmed woman by an ICE agent, I put on my formal “security analyst” hat for an on-line interv...
The Kerrant

Thinking Small Is How You Stay Small - Brian Easton is right about one thing: New Zealand is small. Where he go...
Political Currents by Ross Barkan

Charlie Kirk and a Failed Culture War - 2026, fresh and bloody
Anarchonomicon (CatGirl Kulak)

Short Take: A Case Study in Demoralization Bots - Follow me on Twitter: @FromKulak
Dramatic Pause

How I Review: Madeleine Chapman - In the third edition of how I review, an interview with journalist and author Madeleine Chapman.
New Zealand Arts Review

Auckland Arts Festival Previews – Julia Bullock, Bluebeards Castle and Sincere Apologies - John Daly-Peoples Julia Bullock, Bluebeards Castle, Sincere Apologies The New York Classic review last year featured a review of Julia Bullock by Rick Perd...
A Havenstein Moment.

The Crowded Alley - More Hubris.
Leaving Groupthink, Inc.

When reality is ICE cold - My story of de-radicalizing on immigration, and a plea to ideologues engaging in casual extremism.
The Most Endangered Species (Jeffrey Falk)

Fake George Carlin - A Recurring Trend from the Twentieth Century and Its Implications in the Age of "Artificial Intelligence"
Think Right or Wrong, Not Left or Right

Progressive, Really? Democratic Socialism's Reactionary—and Lethal—Foundation - Thinking morally Right or Wrong about the “Warmth of Collectivism”—and its radical antidote.
Regan's Substack

Socialism is for losers - And Capitalism doesn't need a PR team
Beyond the Noise (Paul Offit)

You’ve Got a Friend in Me - Influenza virus can rest assured that RFK Jr. will continue to have its back
Africa’s Bright Future

Why I Sued Próspera Africa for Defamation - Update on my efforts to advance startup cities in Africa
The Realization of Wholeness

Sing, Little Bird - Stefano Landi's "Augellin"
The Enlightened Examiner

The Law of Complementary Utility - Declining marginal utility is applicable only as a theory of rationing when production is suppressed.
The Enlightened Examiner

The Law of Complementary Utility - Declining marginal utility is applicable only as a theory of rationing when production is suppressed.
No Right Turn

Under-protecting privacy - If you've been following the news, you will have seen the enormous Manage My Health shitshow, which has seen the medical records of 127,000 new Zealanders ...
Classical Compass Rose

Yes, Harvard Is Offering Remedial Algebra - For years, we’ve assured ourselves that “rigor” could be accelerated and understanding would somehow catch up later. Harvard’s quiet decision to offer reme...
The Works in Progress Newsletter

The golden age of vaccine development - The first vaccine was a lucky accident. Now we can design new vaccines in weeks, atom by atom.
An Africanist Perspective

Africa in 2026 - The 11 trends/factors that will shape African affairs in 2026
Virginia Postrel

Recent Work and an Exciting New Project - Plus recommended reading
One Useful Thing

Claude Code and What Comes Next - With the right tools, AI can accomplish impressive things
Note to Noteworthy

Christianity Inverts Morality - Christian morality distorts the true purpose of morality, turning a tool for flourishing into a destroyer of life.
Tross Publishing

DONALD TRUMP – A COWARD AND A TRAITOR - By John McLean Upon becoming President in January, 2025, Donald Trump engaged in a tirade of playground type insults against our fellow dominion of Canad...
The Trumpland Diary

Venezuela and the Technocrats - Making Sense of MAGA's Threats Against Venezuela, Greenland, Canada and Beyond
Texas Institute for Property Rights

The End is Near - In two days, this website will be retired. You can continue reading my posts at jbrianphillips.com The post The End is Near appeared first on Texas Insti...
The Jolly Libertarian

Book Review: So Who Is John Galt, Anyway? by Robert Tracinski - Follow Us on Facebook and Bluesky! Like many, and maybe even most, fans of Ayn Rand's *Atlas Shrugged*, I saw it as a political manifesto. It was a paean t...
Leport’s Substack

DAVID BALDACCI gave a blurb to DEFROSTED, my new medical-political thriller - I'm very proud to announce that I have received a great blurb from DAVID BALDACCI for my new thriller DEFROSTED.
Free Range Kids

It’s Safe to Look Back! The Worst Free-Range Kids Stories of 2025 - Free-Range Parents may recall 2025 as a year that brought them arrests, investigations, and solid proof that helicopters are still swarming over childhoo...
The Stoic Handbook by Jon Brooks

"I Don't Have to Seek Anymore" - A conversation with Martijn Schirp on poker, bankruptcy, intergenerational trauma, and the path between Buddhism and psychedelics
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.
Building the Builders

A New Year’s dialogue with... my AI coaching app - A builder's twist on the 2025 Year in Review
HardmoneyJim

Silver is re-pricing, and it ain't over yet - HOLD ON TO YOUR PRECIOUS METALS, AND HAVE A SHINY NEW YEAR
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
The Future of Freedom Foundation

The U.S. Government Is Not the Daddy of U.S. Oil Companies - Among the many rationalizations that the Trump administration is using to initiate massive force and violence against the Venezuelan people is that the V...
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.
Asimov’s Addendum

How to Prevent Open Standards from Getting Captured Again - The bundling problem and the thin line between product and protocol.
Let Grow

Why Letting Kids Do More Is the Ultimate Gift - [image: Birthday Present Father Giving Gift To Daughter] Esther Wojcicki shares why trust and independence matter more than fear, mistakes, or overprotecti...
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!)
visa's voltaic verses ⚡️

I've been substacking all wrong - too small, too hard, too slow
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 obscure word of the week is cudweed – Matthew Wright

Season’s greetings – and here’s to 2026 - It’s been a funny old year, this 2025. For a start there’s been the ease with which it’s possible to make sentences that include the words ‘dumpster fire’ ...
Kibao

Why one of the year’s biggest AI-for-development stories isn’t actually about AI - What India’s monsoon breakthrough reveals about how technology really works in development
Spiked Online

Vibe Shift book launch and Q&A with Brendan O’Neill - Brendan O’Neill launches his new book Vibe Shift with a live conversation and Q&A. In a central London setting, Brendan will discuss the arguments at the...
The War on Prices

The American Public's Affordability Demands - They favor deflation and prefer deregulation to subsidies
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.
On Substack

Live video on Substack, one year in - How creators made live video their own, and where it’s going next
Liberty Scott

What the Gaza protestors could have done to not stir up Jew Hatred - I’m not going to pretend that I would protest for any movement that has the support of Hamas or Fatah, but of course anyone in a liberal democracy has th...
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
The Grumpy Economist

Video - I’ve been traveling a bit lately and catching up on some writing deadlines, hence less posting than usual.
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...
Interintellect

Grant Mulligan: Don’t die without reading the Odyssey - STARTS TONIGHT: "Why I’m hosting an Interintellect salon on a nearly 3,000-year old poem"
Michael Newberry, Artist

Unlocking the Passionate Artist Within - I saw a post on FB on the end-of-year exhibition of students at the Florence Academy of Art, and I really wanted to love it, but didn’t. The works are clea...
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...
Lindsay Mitchell

Hollow Gesture Replaces Real Action - Do you ever wonder what the Office of the Children's Commissioner - with an annual budget of $11.5 million and 36 full time staff (83 percent female with...
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- ...
The New Era

Digital ID Protest London - Jeff Peel interviews Fiona Rose Diamond ahead of the mass protest in London on Saturday against Digital ID
Forbidden Science

Notes on whether Ivermectin works for COVID-19 - Forbidden Science is a reader-supported publication.
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!
Eat More Electrons

Another nuclear ban falls, this time at the Asian Development Bank - Eight quick thoughts on the trend and what it means
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?
PM of NZ

How about you stay in your lane Mr Mayor? - A newspaper reports our local Mayor says: *a “detailed investigation” into the cause of the power cuts is needed* Leave such investigations alone, they'r...
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?
Barrie Saunders

The BSA power grab: Post 2 - Media and Communications Minister, Paul Goldsmith’s handling of the BSA power grab follow 80 years of abysmal leadership by National Party governments re b...
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
Gross Output

Trump Trade War Hits Business: Economy Slows to a Crawl - “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...
Institute of Economic Affairs

Why the socialist Left and the populist Right are talking past each other - This blog post was first published on IEA Insider. Subscribe at insider.iea.org.uk This piece works as a follow up to The revival … Continue reading "Why...
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.
RenewNZ

Recognising Palestine feeds jihadist ideology - The New Zealand Government must not recognise the so-called state of “Palestine” at the UN this week. Doing so at this point would be a reward for barbaric...
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

Farewell (for now), and thank you. - Many lines from The Simpsons are imprinted in my brain, but there is one that I think about often.
Armas

The intolerable alliance. - Mexico's state and Mexico's cartels, a singular threat.
Patrick T. Brown, PhD

Writings hosted elsewhere - The Breakthrough Institute Interactive Brokers Campus
BloodhoundBlog

Attn. National Association of Realtors: You cannot go to hell fast enough for me. - “Baby, now that I’ve found you, I can’t let you go. I’ll build my world around you. I need you so, baby, even though you don’t need me. You don’t need me…”...
Dominic Frisby

🎄On the something day of Christmas 🎵🥂 - It's that time of the year again
Premise Check (Billy Beck)

It’s Election Day, 2024 - 2:28 AM EDT —
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...
Martini Mandate

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...
647 Reasons Why

DAYS 1-3 - 90 Mile Beach - Days 1-3 of my trek across the entire length of New Zealand
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...
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...
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...
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...
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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We're going on hiatus - But do stick around
Robert Nasir’s Joyous Newsletter

I Don't Know. - The power, the leverage, the epistemological clarity, the strategic value, the style & dignity, the surprising truths, and the simple peace of mind that fl...
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
Publisher's Weekly: Shelf Talker

The Great Book ‘Nobody’ Will Remember - An interview with Drew Beckmeyer
The Fundy Post

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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...
The Grumpy Economist

Understanding Trumpers - WSJ oped and substack post.
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...
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...
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
Comments on: Bert Kelly

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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 ...
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
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...
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...
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...
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...
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.
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 ...
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...
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...
Asian Invasion 2019

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...
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 ...
The Market Urbanism Report Blog

How to Deal with Your Psoriasis Symptoms - Learn more about psoriasis, its warning signs and how to treat it. Psoriasis is a chronic inflammatory skin disease that can impact a person’s appearance, ...
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

Blog Number 7 - Insert main opening paragraph. Insert main opening paragraph. Insert main opening paragraph. Insert main opening paragraph. Insert main opening paragraph...
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...
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

Sample post. - Checking to see if RSS works.
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 New Atlantis

How Finitude Makes Us Happy — My Final Post - She looked her age — 27, startlingly close to my own age. Did we share acquaintances or friends of friends? She fixed her hair in a ponytail and wore jea...
'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...
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...
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…
Mencken's Ghost

Neil Peart: Enlightenment in Verse (and Romanticism in Rock) - Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=13145 Neil Peart was a polymath: a rock drummer, jazz drumm...
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

The Land of the Rising Sun: My Trip to Japan - Dr. Thomas Sowell has mentioned Japan and Scotland as miracles numerous times in his works, so I thought I will visit it. And was he correct, Japan really ...
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

Hang them High! - Car thieves. Preferable drag-hang the scum! Our car has had a window broken, ignition switch mangled and the dash trim torn apart by an inept, useless shi...
John P. McCaskey

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...
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...
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

National’s Anti-Money Laundering & Countering Financing of Terrorism Monster - iPredict the State Gulag - This piece of Soviet legislation took down the brilliant iPredict today: *Prediction website iPredict is to be closed down, with the Government deciding ...
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

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....
Tibor's space

IP Anyone? - Intellectual Property Anyone? Tibor R. Machan There is a debate afoot now about whether one ever owns the likes of a novel, poem, computer game, song, arra...
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

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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