Sunday, September 20, 2009

Sports, Conquistadors and Status

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I'm posting a comment I left at Liberal Order . The blogger shows some amazing bankruptcy statistics for retired NFL players (78%!) and...
Friday, September 4, 2009

How to Test Theories of Average Attractiveness

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Tyler Cowen at Marginal Revolution wrote a post on theories of attractive women that engendered surprisingly few spikes in blood pressure. ...
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Monday, August 3, 2009

The Bad Stripe

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I keep coming back to this region of the country: a strip running from West Virginia down the back (west side) of the Appalachians, through...
Wednesday, July 29, 2009

Sunlight and Happiness

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Take an African animal and put it in Norway , or Seattle. Do you think it would be happy in that climate? But that's us. Growing up i...
Tuesday, July 28, 2009

Institutions and Values Matter

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This evening I was playing around with cost of living, quality of life, latitude and average temperature numbers. Basically I was investiga...
Friday, July 24, 2009

Proposal: Adopt a Universal Phonetic Alphabet Based on Roman Characters

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See my original post at halfbakery.com , which includes follow-up comments. The benefits of literate people around the world being able to c...

A Proposal: Compile Constitutions in Programming Language So They're Consistent

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This was originally posted at halfbakery.com , where you can see the follow-up comments. Most democracies have largely secular, rational po...