How out of bounds is the $15 California minimum wage? from: March 31, 2016 at 03:34PM
A’s utilityman Chris Coghlan learned to adapt after dad’s death “People are afraid to get embarrassed. They’re like, ‘Man, if I can play just one position, I can get comfortable with this and do this.’ So the big thing for me is to be fearless. If I mess up, I mess up. But I’m prepared […]
Labor Market Rigidity and the Disaffection of European Muslim Youth from: March 30, 2016 at 11:36PM
Joerg Friedrichs on honor, face, and dignity in international relations “Returning to Friedrichs, the question becomes how this tripartite distinction can inform international relations theory. Of course, no actual culture is going to fit this model perfectly, but based on considerable scholarship on the matter Friedrichs considers China, Japan, and Korea first and foremost “face” […]
Japanese Hunter-Gatherers Defy Notions About Prehistoric Violence
I created an account to highlight the harassment of women on Twitter; Twitter suspended it “Twitter won’t life a finger to help women combat online harassment, nor while they allow us to help ourselves. I don’t hold out much hope that I’ll get the account back, or that Twitter will make any real strides in […]
Single Artificial Neuron Taught to Recognize Hundreds of Patterns “But distal synapses do something else. They also recognize when certain patterns are present, but do not trigger firing. Instead, they influence the electric state of the cell in a way that makes firing more likely if another specific pattern occurs. So distal synapses prepare the […]
Peer Pressure May Not Work The Way We Think It Does “When you are compared to people who are doing a little better than you, it can be really motivating. Other people use less energy than me; I’m more likely to reduce my energy use. Other people are voting; I’m motivated to vote. But what’s […]
A Force Unto Itself: A Military Leviathan Has Emerged as America’s 51st and Most Powerful State “…virtually all studies of the all-volunteer army have indicated that it is likely to be less representative of and responsive to popular opinion, more expensive, more jealous of its own prerogatives, more xenophobic — in other words, more likely […]
Autism–It’s Different in Girls “Few scientists—including Baron-Cohen—think that the extreme male brain theory is the whole story. A second idea emerges when looking at the typical strengths of women. If having female hormones and a female-type brain structure increases the ability to read the emotions of others and makes social concerns more salient, it might […]
Why watching comb jellies poop has stunned evolutionary biologists “One possibility is that the comb jellies evolved through-guts and anuslike pores on their own, independent of all other animals, over hundreds of millions of years. Alternatively, a through-gut and exit hole may have evolved once in an ancient animal ancestor, and subsequently became lost in […]
The Price Of Glee In China “Let’s assume for a second that all this is true. National income does not matter for national happiness, and if China’s growth continues to skyrocket then in twenty years it will be as rich as Japan but not an iota happier than it is today. What do we do […]
A better offer letter Clear and non-jargony job offer letter.
Epic Country-Level A/B Test Proves Open Is Better Than Closed (Estonia/Belarus) “As the country put more of its government services online, from incorporating a company (which happens at a world-leading speed, estimated at five minutes) to authenticating electronic signatures, it has seized the opportunity to position itself as a hub for digital government services. To […]