Actions speak louder than words (even if those words are a fascist ideology).
“Grabowski concludes, from careful study of individual cases in one region, that Poles who murdered Jews were more likely to join the communist party that ruled Poland after the war. This confirms a...
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1. Price discrimination, Starbucks style. (video) 2. The most American car is the Toyota Avalon. 3. Creative destruction, Bazooka gum style. 4. Why not play basketball with 5 centers? Accompanying...
View ArticleAn Anthropologist on Invisible Children
“About a month ago, I visited Southern California to give a talk about KONY 2012 and I was invited to dinner by the Invisible Children club at UCLA. Just minutes into our conversation, the club...
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Why Don’t More Poor People Have Bank Accounts?
Because they have no money, of course: From a new working paper by Asli Demirguc-Kunt and Leora Klapper. About 80% of the poorest people in the countries surveyed don’t bank accounts. (This Louis CK...
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1. 2013 will be the first year the UK spends 0.7% of national income on foreign aid, among other big changes. More here and here. 2. Excellent Internet Explorer commercial (video). 3. Statistics...
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1. Photos of Typhoon Bopha. 2. Two more entrants in the most important challenge facing humanity contest: Stupidity and Rising Expectations. 3. The new Superman movie looks good. (video) 4. Susan...
View ArticleThere is No Secular Moral Majority (Yet), and There May Never Will Be
Via Daryl Hart, Creighton University professor of theology R. R. Reno writes (gated, sorry): The Democratic party is very likely to become more and more dependent on Nones (20 percent of Americans who...
View ArticlePost-2015 MDG Idea of the Day: Inspiration as a Substitute for Accountability
[Millennium Development Goals] that are psychologically, morally, and politically salient are more likely to change behavior. Terms like “maternal mortality ratio” and “halve the proportion” and...
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1. Is this the future of photography? (video) 2. A (former) anti-GMO activist’s maxima mea culpa. Truly remarkable. If you read or watch just one thing today, let it be this. 3. Learning English...
View ArticleIs it rational to be an uninformed voter?
Here is one argument for ‘yes’: The costs of being an informed voter are relatively high. You have to follow the news by either reading a paper, reading online, or maybe watching the news… …But the...
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