Wednesday, December 28, 2011

Debt: the seed of civilization

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In these days of anti-capitalist protest, it is important to know that keeping track of debts led to the inventions of counting and writing,...
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Monday, December 12, 2011

Merry Newtonmas!

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The Birth of Modernity "Nature and Nature's laws lay hid in night: God said, let Newton be! and all was light." ...
Thursday, December 8, 2011

Another Case of Fraud in University Research

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“ ...   he was immediately fired by the university, admitted to his lengthy fraud, and handed back his PhD degree.” On the Strategy Pro...
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Sunday, December 4, 2011

The Economic Value in a Liberal Education

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On the blog, OrgTheory, Prof. Fabio Rojas has been arguing against indiscriminate college education. His thesis is that college is largely n...

Inconvenient Questions about Global Warming

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Al Gore’s An Inconvenient Truth (Paramount Classics, 2006) suggests many questions about basic facts.   From about 20 minutes in to about ...
Wednesday, November 30, 2011

Eurion Project Launch and Update

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Numismatists find it difficult to impossible to catalog, archive, and study modern banknotes using modern computer equipment. The hardware ...
Friday, November 25, 2011

Supplies and Demands

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From "Inspired Business"  http://www.inspiredbusiness.eu/ In Economics 101, the Supply curve and the Demand curve are display...
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Wednesday, November 23, 2011

Nerd Nation 3.0 Gaming Goes Mainstream

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On my way to volunteer at a family resource center, I checked a bus stop for the routes and saw a tag for GIS (geographic information system...
Monday, November 14, 2011

Eyewitness Testimony: Popper, Wittgenstein, and the Innocence Project

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News traveled quickly within academic philosophy that on the night of October 25, 1946, in Room H3 (number 3; staircase H) of the Gibbs Buil...