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How does order emerge from anarchy? How do human beings create institutions? Can big problems like climate change, income inequality… … Continue readingA Fun Introduction to Public Choice Theory and Polycentricity
Chloe Nannenstad in Reader’s Digest: Love ’em or hate ’em, there’s a reason sarcasm quotes are all over the internet. Like funny sayings, sarcasm quotes play with the interpretation of words
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Alison George in New Scientist: Genetic analysis of a Neanderthal fossil found in France reveals that it was from a previously unknown lineage, a remnant of an ancient population that
Continue readingGenome of Neanderthal Fossil Reveals Lost Tribe Cut Off For Millennia
From Poetic Outlaws: In religious literature the word ‘truth’ is used indiscriminately in at least three distinct and very different senses. Thus, it is sometimes treated as a synonym for
Continue readingAldous Huxley: On Truth and the Nature of Spiritual Reality
And it was at that age… Poetry arrivedin search of me. I don’t know, I don’t know whereit came from, from winter or a river.I don’t know how or when,no
Shared by Jawaid Ahmed of Back2School Forum, ISB: تعلیم کیا ہے؟ دوسری جنگ عظیم کے اختتام پر یہ خط نازیوں کے ایک حراستی کیمپ سے ملا تھا۔ یہ اساتذہ سے
Easy new habits—gain weight, lose money.Mamma said, Don’t wed for love. Choose money. Life is suffering, Buddha taught. He’s right.Which brings more comfort—a hug? Booze? Money? Midnight. Lipstick on glasses,
by Stephen Gadsby and Sander Van de Cruys at Psyche: Conspiracy theories are seemingly everywhere. To explain their prevalence, many commentators point to the gullibility of conspiracy theorists. According to
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by Dani Rodrik at Project Syndicate: I wrote a speculative article in 2000 on what I called “the political trilemma of the world economy.” My claim was that advanced forms
Eugenio Montale, born in 1896 in Genoa, Italy, emerged as one of the 20th century’s foremost Italian poets, earning the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1975. … Continue readingWednesday Poems: 3 By the Great Italian Poet, Eugenio Montale
From The Free Press: The writer Jonathan Rosen looks back at a portent of the future. … Continue readingWhat September 11 Revealed
From Aeon Magazine: This instalment from the British Museum video series Curator’s Corner focuses on a small clay tablet that, at first glance, seems somewhat unremarkable but is, in fact,