Link of the day: Against History In this blog post, philosophy professor Michael Huemer explains why he deems history of philosophy as a dedicated scientific…
Daily Posts
Tuesday, 14.01.2020 – Informing The Public by Withholding Information
Link of the day: Coarse Grades: Informing the Public by Withholding Information (paper) Certificates and test results e.g. for safety, environmental or ethical standards often…
Monday, 13.01.2020 – A positive Account of Property Rights
Link of the day: A positive Account of Property Rights In this essay, Anarchocapitalist David Friedman derives property rights in a Hobbesian state not as…
Sunday, 12.01.2020 – Human Body Temperature Has Decreased in the Last 150 Years
Link of the day: Decreasing human body temperature in the United States since the industrial revolution (scientific paper) Average body temperature may be declining compared…
Saturday, 11.01.2020 – Air Filters May Have Large Educational Gains
Link of the day: Installing air filters in classrooms has surprisingly large educational benefits In 2015, Los Angeles suffered from the Aliso Canyon gas leak,…
Wednesday, 08.01.2020 – Online Advertising is a Giant Bubble
Link of the day: Online Advertising is the New Dotcom Bubble Very often, advertising makes surprisingly little sense. If you are trying to target the…
Tuesday, 07.01.2020 – The Effect of Nuclear Explosions on Beer cans
Link of the day: The Effect of Nuclear Explosions on Commercially Packaged Beverages (scientific paper) Yep. It is exactly what you think it is. In…
Monday, 06.01.2020 – List of Things That Can Be Built Closer to a Home Than A Wind Turbine
Link of the day: List of Things That Can Be Built Closer to a Home Than A Wind Turbine (German) Germany recently prohibited to build…
Sunday, 05.01.2020 – The Banana Radiation Chart
Bananas are radioactive. This is because they naturally contain high amounts of Potassium and a certain percentage of that is the radioactive Potassium-40. This apparently…
Saturday, 04.01.2020 – Scientific Process and Predominant Ideas- The Story of Alzheimer’s Disease
Link of the day: How the predominant idea that Alzheimer’s Disease (AD) is caused by plaques in the brain may have slowed down scientific progress…