Monday, March 2, 2020

Addiction Has Three Types: To Pleasure, Flow, or Meaning

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Positive psychology research models happiness as reducing to three components : pleasure (chocolate, sunsets and orgasm), flow (losing your...
Sunday, March 1, 2020

The 200 to 250 Year Life Cycle Of Great Powers

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Any theory of cycles of 200 to 250 years in the life of empires or nations immediately brings to mind China. If such a phenomenon exists, i...
Saturday, February 8, 2020

Why Is Pursuit of Pleasure a "Third Rail" in Central Authoritarian Agricultural Societies?

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A friend related the following to me. While she was an undergraduate, her grandparents came to visit and took her out to lunch. At the tim...
Tuesday, February 4, 2020

New Names for Subtle Emotional States

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Linderungzorn: "relief anger" - the sensation of finally doing something you've been putting off and stressing about forever...
Monday, February 3, 2020

The Benefit of Joining the United States Comes from Becoming More Like New England

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In an SSRN paper, Maseland and Spruk look at an interesting counterfactual : how would territories have performed that did in reality join ...
Thursday, January 9, 2020

Which States Are Americans Moving To and From, As Related to Cost of Living

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United Van Lines publishes an annual list of the move-to, move-away balance for each state. With the exception of Vermont there are no bi...
Saturday, January 4, 2020

Australia and USA Populating at the Same Rate: Coincidence?

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I wondered: how does Australia's current population density compare to the U.S.'s at the same point in its history? Australia'...