Sunday, July 27, 2014

The War on Terroir

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FINALLY, people are starting to avail themselves of the pun opportunities given the similarity of terror and terroir . I for one have long ...
Sunday, July 6, 2014

We Might Be Careful What We Infer From These Happiness Statistics

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Here is a list of "top" countries ranked in order of what percent of interviewed people were satisfied according to the question, ...
Monday, June 30, 2014

The Endowment Effect as a Rational Strategy

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The endowment effect is well-studied: people assign higher worths to their own possessions than to same things owned by someone else. Tha...
Saturday, June 21, 2014

Passivity and Usefulness of Information Do Not Positively Correlate

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Previously I posted that we shouldn't be surprised that media information that we receive passively isn't necessarily useful to us ....
Monday, May 12, 2014

Anarchist Conference Devolves Into Chaos (Not from the Onion)

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Story, such as it is, found here . I wonder if anyone asked "I thought we were an autonomous collective?"
Friday, March 21, 2014

Crime and Punishment: If We Could Create Hell, Should We?

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This is also posted at my religion and morality blog The Lucky Atheist . Sam Harris has in several places discussed his moral thought expe...
Wednesday, March 19, 2014

Wealth and Coastline, Part 2: The United States

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Previously I showed that the average income in the set of 138 countries for which I had income data, countries that do have some saltwater c...