If Businesses Don’t Serve Customers Well, They Go Out of Business. Government, on the Other Hand, is a Monopoly.

John Stossel at Reason: In my new video, economist Ed Stringham argues that no government…

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By Anatoly Liberman at OUP Blog: Every English dictionary with even minimal information on word…

What is Stoicism

Stoicism teaches the development of self-control as a means of overcoming destructive emotions; the philosophy…

To Paint China as Manipulative in its Debt Investment is at Best Misguided and at Worst Hypocritical

Jamie Linsley-Parrish at at JSTOR Daily: If deliberate, predatory lending at a geo-political scale has…

How Babies’ and Children’s Temperament Varies Around the World

Matt Huston at Psyche: Babies have plenty in common with each other – the crying,…

Wednesday Poem: Happy the Man

Ode on Solitude By Alexander Pope Happy the man, whose wish and care   A few paternal…

Getting to the Red Planet Requires Planning and a Whole Lot of Knowledge

By Devika Rao at The Week: The sun is currently at solar maximum. This means…

Eat a Rock a Day, Put Glue on Your Pizza!

Toby Walsh at The Conversation: Google has rolled out its latest experimental search feature on…

Best Cartoons This Week -of May 27, 2024

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If an Asteroid Hit Earth and All the Humans Died, Would the Dinosaurs Come Back?

at The Conversation‘s Curious Kids series: Many, many years ago dinosaurs roamed the Earth. Six-year-old…

This is Called Freedom

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