- Caplan on Charles Murray's book -- what's interesting is that most of the people I read agree on most / almost all of the data...and draw different conclusions from it. More here.
- Falkenstein on deception.
- Horowitz on Left-Libertarianism
- Kling on MIT Technocrats: " MIT's contribution to producing technocrats was what it did not teach. It did not teach humility. It did not teach that the world is too complex for technocrats to control. "
- Tabarrok: Affirmative Action studied: Doesn't accomplish goals @ Duke.
- Fatness -- Junk food NOT related??? HT: Munger
- Brin -- Great discussion of competition as the driver of prosperity. Fails to conclude well.
- Law proposal
- Blunt Object -- Great discussion of Paternalism
- Robin Hanson -- On being wrong.
- Isegoria finds flying windmills that may be power-effective, even if they still shred bats.
- Slashdot finds the evolution of multicellular life in 2 months from single-celled organisms. This was one of the BIG yet-unknowns in evolution. The transition from proto-RNA to cells appears to be the only big missing step where we don't understand the path.
- Horn and Wilkinson on SOPA
- Instapundit on practical climate solutions. (Really)
- LaTNB -- Competitive Law in Dubai?
Thursday, January 19, 2012
Important Thinks
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In response to the flying windmills thing, which is awesome:
http://solarroadways.com/intro.shtml
They hype the idea quite considerably, but fundamentally I think the idea they're going for is sound.
This is what environmentalism should look like. Making things, instead of tearing things down.
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