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

Saturday, January 19, 2019

Tasting Freedom: Happiness, Religion and Economic Transition

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Paper is here, by Orsolya Lelkes (2006.) Emphases mine. Abstract: Economic transition lowered happiness on average, but did not affect ...

Tuesday, January 1, 2019

Brain Drain From Emigration of Medical Professionals May Be Imaginary

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The UK at one time (and possibly still) had a policy not to recruit aspiring physicians from the developing world to the UK's medical sc...

Thursday, September 20, 2018

Happiness by State in the US, 2018

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A study done by Wallethub (their image below) using their own 31-factor happiness index shows the Bad Stripe, along with a few other intere...

Saturday, September 1, 2018

Patterns that Emerge In Both Social Conservatives and Social Leftists

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The American left is beginning to curiously resemble the right - not in its positions, but in dynamics and behavior. I can't quite say ...

Thursday, August 2, 2018

Dry Counties - Roughly Track the Bad Stripe

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Above, map of dry counties in the US (Wiki.) Compare to one of many Bad Stripe maps, a map of Well-Being, below. This stripe pops out ...

How America Uses Its Land

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Full map with all use-types here .

Sunday, July 22, 2018

Our Future: Trading Reliability for Power

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I've often heard people 40+ grumble in the following way about modern communication technology: "Yeah email and text and voicemail...

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