Link of the day: Scientists Have Been Underestimating the Pace of Climate Change Scientific publications may systematically underestimate the effects and the speed of climate…
Society, Politics and History
Saturday, 18.01.2020 – Relaxed Beliefs Under Psychedelics
Link of the day: SSC Journal Club – Relaxed beliefs under psychedelics and the anarchic brain Psychedelics are increasingly tested for therapeutic use. There are…
Friday, 17.01.2020 – What Can You (a Tech Person) Do About Climate Change?
Link of the day: What Can a Technologist Do About Climate Change? On his homepage, Bret Victor points out a quite substantial and interesting numbers…
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,…
Is Planting Trees the Best Way to Fight Climate Change?
Why does everything have to be some complicated? One thing seemed so sure: If you plant trees, you take CO2 out of the atmosphere and…
The Cia and the United Fruits Company (Now Chiquita)
Sometimes history makes me very angry. This is one of these times. In 1954 the CIA launched a coup d’état in Guatemala and deposed the…