Link of the day: Do Highly Paid, Highly Skilled Women Experience the Largest Motherhood Penalty? Motherhood reduces women’s wages. […] We find that among white…
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Thursday, 30.04.2020 – Forecasting CoVid-19 Cases
Link of the day: Forecasts of cases and the effective reproduction number globally For the last weeks I’ve been working with a team at the…
The Fable of the Dragon Tyrant
Link of the day: The fable of the dragon tyrant Related to my post about cryonics, here is Nick Bostrom‘s somewhat famous fable of the…
Saturday, 25.04.2020 – How Much Platinum Is There In The World?
Link of the day: How Much Platinum is in the World? Surprisingly little. The entire platinum mined so far in human existence seems to fit…
Wednesday, 22.04.2020 – Why Cryonics Isn’t Crazy
Link of the day: Why Cryonics Makes Sense How do you define death? There are quite a number of ways to answer that. Centuries ago,…
Saturday, 18.04.2020 – What The West Cannot Learn From South Korea
Link of the day: What Europe Cannot Learn from South Korea (German) South Korea’s track record in fighting the corona pandemic is impressive. Countless newspaper…
Thursday, 16.04.2020 – Are Ventilators Overused?
Link of the day: With ventilators running out, doctors say the machines are overused for Covid-19 There is some evidence suggesting that too many patients…
Zoophilia And Moral Judgement
Link of the day: What it’s like to date a horse This is an interview with a man who talks unusually open about his love…
The World Is Greener Now Than 20 Years Ago
Link of the day: NASA Says Earth Is Greener Today Than 20 Years Ago Thanks To China, India In contrast to the perception of China…
Tuesday, 07.04.2020 – Billionaire Philantropy
Bill Gates will build seven factories to mass-produce promising vaccines for the coronavirus. Knowing that probably at most two of the seven substances currently tested…