We’ve been deceived by a stroke of luck. In the two million years during which we climbed from stone-tool wielding Homo erectus with sloping brows to high-foreheaded Homo urbanis, man the inventor of the city, we underwent 60 glaciations, 60 ice ages. And in the 120,000 years since we emerged in our current physiological shape [...]
Change blindness. One of the many ways our brain is so damned complex.
Not that we need more convincing that Microsoft is run by a bunch of pragmatic douchebags, but…
Boycott Microsoft Bing
By NICHOLAS KRISTOF
Microsoft apparently doesn’t want to pursue the Google solution of having separate sites – one that produces generally legitimate results (google.com) and another within China that blatantly censors (google.cn). Instead, Bing figured it would have [...]
Everyone should peruse the works of Bastiat. I highly recommend you read up on some very simple explanations of economics.
There’s a great book called The Bottomless Well, appropriately subtitled “The Twilight of Fuel, The Virtue of Waste, and Why We Will Never Run Out Of Energy“.
This great article about hybrid owners driving more and getting more tickets dovetails nicely with the book’s premise.
The firm looked at several common use categories used by insurers—including “pleasure [...]
