Category Archives: sciences

the naked ape

Posted on Monday, 2004 February 16 by Anton

Wisecrack of the day, from E B Rasmusen: Europe is going through a birth rate collapse, a singularly odd and disquieting thing, I should think. . . . Maybe humans are like other organisms that don’t reproduce well in captivity.

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fun with numbers ’n stuff

Posted on Saturday, 2004 February 14 by Anton

MathWorld has had a facelift.

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exporting democracy

Posted on Wednesday, 2004 February 04 by Anton

Jonathan David Morris: Immigration and the Myth of Unwanted Jobs So what are we talking about when we talk about “jobs that Americans aren’t willing to do?” Landscaping. Housekeeping. Things of that sort. Why aren’t Americans willing to do them? … Continue reading →

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QotD

Posted on Thursday, 2004 January 15 by Anton

Quoth the ever provocative Brian Micklethwait: Evolutionary Biology is a bandwagon with too much momentum for a few clapped out Marxists to halt it, and if the Evolutionary Biologists decide that Hayek matters, he matters. Prediction: in twenty years time … Continue reading →

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Russ Nelson

Posted on Tuesday, 2004 January 06 by Anton

Russ Nelson is, if memory serves, a Quaker and an anarchist. He used to be on my favorite mailing list; I wonder why he dropped. Well, I just noticed that he has a blog; he calls it The Angry Economist.

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