Trees know when deer are eating them — and how to fight back.
September 20, 2016
Occupy Wall Street, five years on: fire in the dustbin of history. This legitimately scared the ruling class, and such a thing will not be allowed to happen again.
Anonymous Hacker Explains His Attack On Boston Children’s Hospital. Medical establishment in the US is effectively wholly evil.
September 19, 2016
What Did the United States Look Like in the 1950s? At least the urban, relatively-rich part looked like this.
Can e-bikes revolutionise long-distance commuting? In places where you won’t immediately be killed while riding them, perhaps.
September 18, 2016
September 17, 2016
Hillary Clinton’s Backers Thought She Couldn’t Lose. Now, ‘I Can’t Go There.’ Clinton always a terrible candidate; very lucky she’s running against an even worse one (Romney would’ve trounced her).
Brexit fallout: markets v economists. Macros wrong again? Shocker!
How Morality Changes in a Foreign Language. I only murder hobos in French, for instance.
September 16, 2016
Ford shifting all U.S. small-car production to Mexico. NAFTA still benefiting America after all these years, just as the macros promised us.
US renewables: Dropping in price, growing in significance. “Wisdom” a decade ago was that no renewable would ever be cheaper than coal.
The simplest way to stop stuff is to just forbid it. Foreigners don’t have any “right” to buy property in other countries. It’s a privilege. A country for its own citizens. Fancy that.
September 15, 2016
A look at the new Wall Street scheme to make money with your home. In the history of terrible ideas, this is right below naked shorts.
Sprawling suburbs, not tall towers, lead to affordable housing, study finds. One reason is that tall towers are very, very, very expensive to build; 2-3x as much $$ per sq ft as low-rise.
September 14, 2016
What would the Earth be like if it was the shape of a donut? Parts would be frosty.
September 13, 2016
Wells Fargo Executive Linked To Scam Gets $124.6 Million Payday. Little people get punished, elites get paid. See Hillary Clinton, Donald Trump for other examples.
September 12, 2016
September 11, 2016
Taming the steamroller: how to communicate compassionately with non-native English speakers. Have to apply these techniques all the time in my current job.
September 10, 2016
“An Apology for Idlers” by Robert Louis Stevenson. Bobby S. knew what’s up.