Category Archives: sciences

family entertainment

Monday I saw The Return of the King with family. I was a bit surprised that Allegra the vegan was the biggest fan in the bunch, since all that photogenic carnage tended to crowd out the plot somewhat. — Most … Continue reading

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mixing one’s labor with the land

Leonard Dickenson (Unruled) on Lockean claims in cleared parking spaces. Cited by Will Wilkinson (The Fly Bottle).

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through a mathematician’s eye

Google claims 111 hits for group.theory square.dance OR square.dancing.

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don’t trust everything you find in a gravel pit

Piltdown Plot — includes ‘prosecution’ and ‘defense’ of seven leading suspects

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another layer of transaction costs

Rasmusen on the value of liberty What is wrong with government regulations? Well, first, of course, they are likely to be the result of special interests, and inefficient. But even good regulations have a cost that I don’t see mentioned: … Continue reading

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QotD

Kevin Marks, whom I had not read before, cites Jerome K Jerome (author of Three Men in a Boat) on economics: What a wonderful piece of Socialism modern civilisation has become! – not the Socialism of the so-called Socialists — … Continue reading

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“geek” tattoos

I’m unlikely ever to get a tattoo, but if I did, I incline to the armband type; and I just got an idea for one: a ‘Mercator projection’ of Escher’s hyperbolic fish. Instead of a circle, the horizon would be … Continue reading

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