I haven’t perused this article yet, but Japan has always taken the concept more seriously than we have (well, except briefly in the late seventies).
Category Archives: Economics
I Want To Do Apollo Again
Nothing has changed in four years, except the name of the rocket.
The Vast Left-Wing Conspiracy
Revealed. It’s always ironic to see all these rich leftists plotting to force the rest of us to spend our money on their pet projects.
Firefly Alpha
Jeff Foust reports on the new launch company’s first planned product, and wonders if there’s a market for it.
The Big Fat Silence
It’s time to end it:
…if one has been teaching that high-fat diets can lead to heart attacks for 30 years but then finds that this may not be true, or that, indeed, more fat and less carbohydrate in the diet may be beneficial to one’s health and longevity, feelings of discomfort can result. Subconscious mechanisms may then keep enduring convictions firmly in place for extended periods of time, despite evidence to the contrary.
And it’s hard to confront the fact that you may have been responsible for the poor health and lives cut short of people you’ve been advising.
Jerry Ross
Well, this is kind of a frightening interview.
That he was allowed to manage anything at NASA explains a lot.
The Real IRS Scandal
Good news, everyone! The New York Times has identified it. The agency isn’t getting enough money.
California’s Hydromania
The Hobby Lobby Case
…the only reason this conflict arose was a New Deal-era tax loophole that gave birth to our peculiar employer-based health care system. The main lesson of Hobby Lobby is that this system has to go.
Yes. Of course, ObamaCare should never have happened, either, for the same reason.
Hard Drive Prices
Seeing three terabytes for a hundred bucks at Newegg.
My problem is, I don’t know what I’d do with that much storage. I don’t need bigger drives; I’d like cheaper ones. But as with restaurants and food, the marginal cost of adding capacity is low, but the basic overhead of manufacturing a drive seems to set a lower limit on the price.