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Category Archives: social science
News Brief, I Want to Be Your Sledgehammer Edition
Cross-posted at The Conjecturer. I’m going go try to shorten these and better group them thematically at some point, but I just find too much during the day to really limit things. Should I give up the pretense of exhaustiveness? … Continue reading
News Brief, Harrowdown Hill Edition
Cross-posted at The Conjecturer. The Pentagon James Clapper, the UnderSecDef for Intel, wants the TALON database scrapped. This is because it recorded not just legitimate threats to U.S. bases, but information on civilian protests and anti-war marches. In other words, … Continue reading
The Gun Control Battle (UPDATED)
In the wake of the Va. Tech massacre, the long-standing debate on gun control and America’s perceived “gun culture” renews itself, and will most likely end in Congress “doing something” about the issue such as passing more useless laws to … Continue reading
“The Ultimate Resource” Debut’s Tonight
For more on this television event at 10PM EST on HDNet you can go here and also see another excerpt on video here. This clip introduces you to James Tooley, Hernando De Soto and Muhammad Yunus whose work this show … Continue reading
News Brief, Under Pressure Edition
Cross-posted at The Conjecturer. The Pentagon All the protests from the DoD about the “surprise†test of China’s ASAT missile were completely invented. They knew it was happening, and chose to use it for P.R. Even so, they’re starting to … Continue reading
Don’t Forget The Ultimate Resource
I posted on the upcoming documentary, “The Ultimate Resource” a few days ago. For more read the post: This coming Tuesday, April 24th, Free to Choose Media is continuing the work of its inspiration, Milton Friedman, of bringing the benefits … Continue reading
News Brief, This Is An Alarm Call Edition
Cross-posted at The Conjecturer. The Pentagon One of the funnier stories out of the initial invasion of Iraq was the use of dolphins to clear mines from Um-Qasr harbor. It was a miserable failure. Still, the desire to use so-called … Continue reading
News Brief, Karma Police Edition
(Cross-posted at The Conjecturer) The Pentagon Inside the Army reports that the Pentagon has created a council for improving counterintelligence training. The aptly-named Counterintelligence Training Council just might maybe stop the data bleeds to China and Russia we’ve seen over … Continue reading
The Ultimate Resource
This coming Tuesday, April 24th, Free to Choose Media is continuing the work of its inspiration, Milton Friedman, of bringing the benefits of freedom to the people of this world, including its most remote corners. A new documentary, “The Ultimate … Continue reading
News Brief, Mission of Burma Edition
Cross-posted on The Conjecturer. The Pentagon This account of an NSA Recruiting drive wasn’t all that remarkable, except for one bit I had never heard before. “It was mentioned that people who had done a lot of illegal file sharing … Continue reading
Shift Happens: No more boring statistics
(Via: Pajamas) Please watch this. In understanding the world our ignorance is a problem, but greater still are the things which we believe we know about the world that we do not. Luckily for you, this is entertaining. Within minutes … Continue reading
Posted in Culture, Developmental economics, Economics, Education, Race, social science, Technology
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The other point of view
(Via Tyler Cowen) Here we have a list of history’s 100 most influential people from the viewpoint of the Japanese. The rest are below the fold, but here are the top 25. Videos and other commentary at the link. Sakamoto … Continue reading
Posted in History, Lance's Page, social science
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See, I Told You So
I think that this story and the conclusions it references can be filed under the category of, “see, I told you so.” Or perhaps, “tell me something else that I already knew.” Let’s look at what took the APA such … Continue reading
Amanda Marcotte has found the evidence
Evidence of how men, especially conservative men, really think. [youtube SjxY9rZwNGU] I am calling Eleanor Smeal NOW! [tags] NOW, women, sexism, Harry Einfeld [/tags]
Posted in Humor, Lance's Page, social science
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Shift Happens
We live in a fast changing world. I consider that a good thing: glumbert.com – Shift Happens [tags] China, India, technology, economics, politics, US, jobs, education [/tags]
Schools & Social Engineering
Podcast Follow-Up: One of the articles that I mentioned in the podcast (which, looking back on it, was only tangentially related to the topic at hand, and only in the kindest sense of the term “tangential”) involved the Hilltop Children’s … Continue reading
Posted in Culture, Economics, Education, Libertarianism, MichaelW's Page, social science
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Now this is Cool
Hat tip Tyler Cowen. We have here a 3-D world map based on Economic activity. It requires Flash Player. Technorati Tags: Economics, Map, economic activity, cool powered by performancing firefox
Posted in Economics, Lance's Page, social science, Technology, Uncategorized
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Virtual reality keeps becoming more real
The expansion of the influence of virtual worlds continues. From Blake Hounshell, formerly known on the internet as Praktike: Reuters will conduct a series of interviews with artists, politicians and executives at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland next … Continue reading
Posted in Economics, Foreign affairs, Lance's Page, social science, Technology
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Religion in Academia
From Robin Hanson’s fascinating blog, Overcoming Bias, I found this: Last November we learned that the US public believes in God more than college professors, who believe more than professors at elite schools: Almost a third answered “none” when asked … Continue reading
Got Free Will?
According to Dennis Overbye you don’t: Having just lived through another New Year’s Eve, many of you have just resolved to be better, wiser, stronger and richer in the coming months and years. After all, we’re free humans, not slaves, … Continue reading
Following up on Virtual Reality
As a brief follow up on my longer speculative piece on the economic and political consequences of the rise of virtual economies I suggest this review (via Coyote Blog) from PC Magazine of Second Life. Then there’s the virtual charity … Continue reading
Posted in Culture, Economics, Lance's Page, Law, Libertarianism, social science, Technology
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The Virtues of Economics in a Virtual World
I must admit I find this article on virtual property rights from the Washington Post fascinating. Questions about online property rights, the legal status of those rights, currency exchanges to convert online currency into our own rather insubstantial fiat money, … Continue reading
Posted in Culture, Domestic Politics, Economics, Lance's Page, Law, Libertarianism, Media, social science, Technology
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The Holiday Season kicks off with a bang!
It is a rare happenstance that my weekday mornings start of as well as mine did this morning. Two busy people rushing to get ready for work. Most of our readers can surely empathize. Of course I have now discovered … Continue reading
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Redistributionism and Racism/Elitism
Over at The Volokh Conspiracy, Jim Lindgren posts about a statistical analysis he’s done regarding the correlation between pro-redistributionist and traditionally racist views. According to Prof. Lindgren, while the opposite correlation is accepted “fact” in the social science cannons, facts … Continue reading
Posted in Culture, MichaelW's Page, social science
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