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Sweeping study claims that rising temperatures will sharply cut economic productivity

Sweeping study claims that rising temperatures will sharply cut economic productivity “Culling together economic and temperature data for over 100 wealthy and poorer countries alike over 50 years, the researchers assert that the optimum temperature for human productivity is seems to be around 13 degrees Celsius or roughly 55 degrees Fahrenheit, as an annual average for […]

How the war on drugs creates violence

How the war on drugs creates violence “But there is also another, more subtle connection between the drug war and violence, pinpointed by economists Brendan O’Flaherty and Rajiv Sethi . As they argue, above-average homicide rates will result from low rates of successful investigation and prosecution of homicide cases. If you live in an environment […]

Tyler Cowen: The Rise and Fall of the Chinese Economy

Tyler Cowen: The Rise and Fall of the Chinese Economy October 21, 2015 at 09:22AM

The /now page movement

The /now page movement from: October 21, 2015 at 09:06AM

A Defense of Neuroesthetics: An Interview with Semir Zeki

A Defense of Neuroesthetics: An Interview with Semir Zeki “beauty” and “forms”…are beside the point if you ask me, but nobody asks me

Physicist Lisa Randall on the Sublime, Our Human Quest for Meaning, and the Crucial Differences Between How Art, Science, and Religion Explain the Universe

Physicist Lisa Randall on the Sublime, Our Human Quest for Meaning, and the Crucial Differences Between How Art, Science, and Religion Explain the Universe Randall: “The question each individual faces is whether religion or science offers a greater sense of control over the world.” If a religion is offering a sense of control over the […]

Speeding-up and Missed Opportunities: Evidence | Paul Romer

Speeding-up and Missed Opportunities: Evidence | Paul Romer “The bar I set for a model is that it should yield answers we believe to questions that matter.”

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A lady working in the producer’s office told me that a child needs to see something incomprehensible and they’ll understand it later. I’d never thought about it that way. Hayao Miyazaki kenarneson.tumblr.com

Hayao Miyazaki – The Essence of Humanity

Hayao Miyazaki – The Essence of Humanity October 17, 2015 at 12:09AM

Music in Human Evolution

Music in Human Evolution “The point of the AVID (of which the haka is the best example) is: *To intimidate competitors with loud sounds. *To intimidate competitors visually. *To project the image of a single, powerful organism. Remember, the AVID would have been used for confrontational scavenging as well as defense against predators — and […]

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J is too low. X is too high. A is juuust right. RT @Gawker: Letters, ranked http://t.co/3sipQwiQvE pic.twitter.com/IzRhQbejmX — Aaron Cameron (@ThatBootlegGuy) October 16, 2015 via https://twitter.com/ThatBootlegGuy

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@kenarneson @enosarris @bachlaw and it evens out *only in the marginal distribution*. The second you get conditional, it falls apart. — LE PETIT-BOULGEOISIE (@dj_mosfett) October 15, 2015 via https://twitter.com/dj_mosfett

Girls Who Code: #HireMe

Girls Who Code: #HireMe October 15, 2015 at 12:08PM

Startup Growth Calculator

Startup Growth Calculator

Tweet by zohf

On storytelling: refining the narrative through communication and collaboration —https://t.co/l8p6flHFEI cc @hels — Josh Laincz (@zohf) October 14, 2015 via https://twitter.com/zohf

Tweet by lonelysandwich

Time to share: we made a show, it’s a technology talk show set in 1983. And it’s called Computer Show. http://t.co/50tUedHIEi — Adam Lisagor (@lonelysandwich) October 14, 2015 via https://twitter.com/lonelysandwich

Why Twitter’s Dying (And What You Can Learn From It)

Why Twitter’s Dying (And What You Can Learn From It) “But just as a meatpacking company that sold tainted beef, over and over again, that made people ill, would eventually see a decline in sales, so too a social web which is infected with the abuse will inevitably see a decline in usage. I can […]

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@kenarneson @newballpark @eastbaybias @mjoven1975 @robbarbery A good collection of old Coliseum photos here: http://t.co/GVjYB09vbn — Nick Mediati (@dtnick) October 13, 2015 via https://twitter.com/dtnick

The Saint of Dry Creek

The Saint of Dry Creek October 13, 2015 at 09:38AM

The Case for Getting Rid of Borders—Completely

The Case for Getting Rid of Borders—Completely from: October 13, 2015 at 09:58AM