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If you want to make a lot of money, pitch God to fundamentalists and don’t try to write good books. Instead, try to write books that [fundamentalists] are going to like. And those two things don’t go together. Frank Schaeffer in his interview with Kirkus Review of...
Why Traffic Jams Occur

Why Traffic Jams Occur

This post comes under the heading of “Not Exactly Scientific but Darned-Reliable Nonetheless”. I was driving home the other day amidst the normal horrors of the southbound 101 at rush hour, and was irritated to see that traffic was stalled and slowed much...

We Are Wired to be Stupid

Seriously. But I’m not writing about that yet. I’m just making myself a note to read as much literature in the field of behavioural economics as I can. Found a good list to start with, though I suspect Mises’s Human Action is still better than any...

Be the Change

What would you do if the world were already exactly as it should be? How would you spend your time?

Fun With Numbers

Here’s a cool video that helps us visualize the RBNs (Really Big Numbers) that the math geniuses running the country are busy juggling.