Saturday, July 29, 2017

Do You Know Your Military?

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The unremediated challenge is that only 1% of the population is in the military; only 2% ever has been. During World War II, that number wa...
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Monday, July 24, 2017

200,000 Pageviews

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On or about July 17, 2017, this blog tallied its 200,000 th page view. Launched on 2 January 2011, about 100 people per day read the posts...
Sunday, July 23, 2017

Jerry Emanuelson’s Algebraic Proof of Ricardo’s Law of Association

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Most likely in the summer of 1970, Jerry Emanuelson published a proof showing that if two people work at two tasks at relatively different ...
Sunday, July 9, 2017

Not Conned by Sehgal’s Coined

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A degreed economist (LSE) who works for J. P Morgan, Kabir Sehgal is the author of Coined: The Rich Life of Money and How Its History has S...
Saturday, July 8, 2017

Michael Shermer's Moral Arc

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The 475 pages are a quick read because it is so easy to agree with the many assertions of fact and moral claims. Also, the typography - ext...
Tuesday, July 4, 2017

BACKYARD ASTRONOMY

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The long weekend gave me the opportunity to go out with my telescope for the first time in eight months. I grew up in Cleveland, Ohio, so t...
Thursday, June 29, 2017

SUPERMAN: AMERICAN ALIEN

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Canon exists. Once you stray from canon, you go from a slippery slope to a  reductio ad absurdum in which all you have is an em...
Sunday, June 25, 2017

Tarzan, the Amazons, and my Mother

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Public education ain’t what it used to be.  It is a law of economics that collectivism is inefficient, an entropic downward path. So, it is...
Saturday, June 24, 2017

Fools, Cowards, and Thucydides

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The Internet assures that misattributions will always remain a problem.  “A nation that makes a great distinction between its scholars and ...