The Late Enlightenment

We're still in the Enlightenment, only now reason has shown us that we are not reasonable - and a more empirical study of man helps us remember the point of the whole program

Friday, January 31, 2014

Political Geography, if Pangea Had Never Broken Up

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More interesting maps here .

Monday, January 27, 2014

If Africa Had Never Been Colonized

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Go here for more alternate history ; go here for more weird geography .

Wednesday, January 22, 2014

Altitude and Population Density

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Cross-posted to my outdoors blog, MDK10Outside.blogspot.com . We typically go to mountains to get away from it all, especially other human...

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Saturday, January 18, 2014

"Small Government" Conservatives Forget States Rights When Marijuana is Legalized

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Ted Cruz and social-conservative (read "fake") libertarians want to use government to force people to follow their moral code. Mo...

Wednesday, January 15, 2014

Losing to Specialists, and Competing for Attention

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Economist Tim Harford has a short and pithy post, comparing some aspects of the modern consumer's experience to being in a casino. Spec...

Saturday, January 11, 2014

How to Become Dominant During the Twentieth Century

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Reproduced from the Economist, originally from Thomas Picketty's Capital in the Twenty-first Century It is difficult to overstate the ...

Saturday, January 4, 2014

Dunbar's Number and Startup Companies, Part 2

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More on the Dunbar number transition in startups from Ribbonfarm . Many people have noted and describe the culture shift that occurs at s...

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