“It’s time we told a different kind of story. The real Lord of the Flies is a tale of friendship and loyalty; one that illustrates how much stronger we are if we can lean on each other.”
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The real Lord of the Flies: what happened when six boys were shipwrecked for 15 months
# 2020.05.09 – 13:25
The Problem with Pragmatism (and “It’s Time to Build”)
# 2020.05.07 – 10:56
Sponge Dip for the American Soul
# 2020.04.17 – 18:07
A girl sitting on her own in a small café in Rickmansworth
# 2020.04.13 – 16:17
Why conventional wisdom on health care is wrong (a primer)
Health care spending is well predicted, indeed caused, by income:
“Health spending is overwhelmingly determined by the average real income enjoyed by nations’ residents in the long run. The income elasticity of health expenditure is also extremely high at a national level — the health share rises rapidly with incomes. This can be plainly seen in OECD cross-sectional data.”
# 2020.02.19 – 21:19
Tweet by footofgov
"The principle that the end justifies the means is in individualist ethics regarded as the denial of all morals. In collectivist ethics it becomes necessarily the supreme rule" – Friedrich Hayek
— The Invisible Foot of Government (@footofgov) February 15, 2019
# 2020.02.19 – 21:03
Tweet by peteenns
It struck me a few years ago, sitting there reading some book, as my mind began to wander, that the crucifixion of Jesus is one of those things about the Christian faith that (1) I don’t really understand, and (2) seems vitally important to understand. https://t.co/2FhN5Fi0J6
— Peter Enns (@peteenns) April 17, 2019
# 2020.02.19 – 21:03
Tweet by peteenns
Christianity’s opening public move, so to speak, was an act of humiliation, shame, and defeat, unworthy of any of the gods. https://t.co/2FhN5Fi0J6
— Peter Enns (@peteenns) April 17, 2019
# 2020.02.19 – 21:03
Tweet by MarcWillcox
Have just heard a paleontologist say this, which blew my head off:
When a T-Rex was alive all Stegosaurus were already fossils. A T-Rex is closer in time to an iPad than to a Stegosaurus.— Marc Willcox (@MarcWillcox) September 2, 2019
# 2020.02.19 – 21:03
Tweet by ahaspel
Competence dwarfs all other virtues, and nearly every moral system ever devised aims first at disguising that fact.
— Aaron Haspel (@ahaspel) October 28, 2019
# 2020.02.19 – 21:03
Tweet by cwyers
But if you model things that interact with human behavior, and you then show (either explicitly or implicitly) the results of your model to humans, you are via your model changing the very thing you are attempting to predict. Google's ad algorithms aren't just predicting…
— Colin Wyers (@cwyers) October 29, 2019
# 2020.02.19 – 21:03
Tweet by TSNHockey
IN HIS OWN WORDS: Former NHL player, head coach and executive Craig MacTavish shares stories from a short but memorable run behind the bench of Yaroslavl Lokomotiv in Russia’s #KHL…https://t.co/S1tpOSvjEU #TSNHockey pic.twitter.com/BcEdfgGr3p
— TSN Hockey (@TSNHockey) November 7, 2019
# 2020.02.19 – 21:03
Tweet by TheAtlantic
“We know what Mister Rogers would do, but even now we don’t know what to do with the lessons of Mister Rogers.” @tomjunod wrestles with the memory and legacy of his friend and the beloved children’s-TV host, Fred Rogers. https://t.co/2NuwnoEKg3
— The Atlantic (@TheAtlantic) November 7, 2019
# 2020.02.19 – 21:03
Tweet by Rasheed_Shabazz
Mayor LaCroix opposed Measure A.
The extended version of my article with links/references is here: https://t.co/n0XhQQGcli— RAsheed ☥ Shabazz (@Rasheed_Shabazz) January 11, 2020
# 2020.02.19 – 21:03
Tweet by skepticalsports
God I love this chart. For most of recorded history, if you had a kid their chance of surviving to age 15 was roughly a coinflip. Then the modern world happened: https://t.co/2Ru1wXc2Ux pic.twitter.com/crokDXbNe6
— Benjamin Morris (@skepticalsports) January 11, 2020
# 2020.02.19 – 21:03
Tweet by CamCritt
See also this excellent documentary about another Berkeley typewriter repair shop: https://t.co/Ua4LRIRMuc
With @tomhanks. So well done! https://t.co/4BuTbr7oXz— Camille Crittenden (@CamCritt) January 22, 2020
# 2020.02.19 – 21:03
Tweet by HotlineJosh
Jim Lehrer's rules of journalism: pic.twitter.com/c1NYYxBQxP
— Josh Kraushaar (@HotlineJosh) January 23, 2020
# 2020.02.19 – 21:03
Tweet by Hoganmag
Today in Comics History: In "Peanuts" on August 2, 1979 (40 years ago), Lucy actually tried to hold the football in place so Charlie Brown could kick it. (Predictably, it did not end well for either of them.) pic.twitter.com/Ivf6dLzJM1
— Tom Heintjes (@Hoganmag) August 2, 2019
# 2020.02.19 – 21:03