Flash Mobs Take Violent Turn in Philadelphia
Flash mobs started seven years ago as silly, innocent fad for tech-savvy hipsters — use social-networking sites and text messages to gather large numbers of people for a kind of performance art: an...
View ArticleToo Much Liberal Bollocks
I recently shared Miss Snuffleupagus's opinion that the best thing for some of her black students is indeed to send them back to Africa, where they can't help but learn discipline and respect.As she...
View ArticleSouthwest Airlines' Baggage Strategy
Eric Joiner, Jr. calls Southwest Airlines' baggage strategy — which promotes checked bags — pure genius: Southwest Airlines flies a network within the United States that uses basically one airplane....
View ArticleTrying to Drown a Fish
Mencius Moldbug finds it really quite amazing that anyone shows up at elections for the present system of government or cares about it at all: To anyone who knows anything about Washington, the...
View ArticleAristocracy vs. Tyranny
Aretae recently commented that Moldbug's primary thrust is identical to that of Plato's Republic — aristocracy is better than democracy, which is better than tyranny: My concern, and the concern of an...
View ArticleThe Case for Teaching Less Math in Schools
Peter Gray presents the case for teaching less math in schools, based on some old, forgotten research: In 1929, the superintendent of schools in Ithaca, New York, sent out a challenge to his colleagues...
View ArticleTaking AP Classes versus Passing AP Tests
Parents and educators seem to ignore the vital difference between taking Advanced Placement classes versus passing Advanced Placement tests, Steve Sailer says: The conventional wisdom assumes that the...
View ArticleWater Wars
It's hard for me to take someone seriously when they're outraged — outraged! — that someone might want to turn water — a shared public resource! — into a private asset that can be traded on the open...
View ArticleSaigon did not fall to barefoot black-pajama-clad guerrillas
There are three reason why every sentient being in the universe should read On Strategy: A Critical Analysis of the Vietnam War by Col. Harry Summers, NerveAgent says: First, it is probably the most...
View ArticleGary Gorton vs. Michael Lewis
Gary Gorton's Slapped in the Face by the Invisible Hand is insightful but not nearly as lively as its title, Eric Falkenstein says: Alas, most people will find Gorton a bit too dry, too many...
View ArticleIntellectuals and Society
Thomas Sowell defines an intellectual as one whose work begins and ends with ideas — which, John Derbyshire points out, excludes many — engineers, architects, surgeons, lawyers, generals — who make a...
View ArticleCancer genes in human melanomas have been switched off
Cancer genes in human melanomas have been switched off via RNA interference (RNAi): The researchers created the particles from two polymers plus a protein that binds to receptors on the surface of...
View ArticleArt of the Steal
Art of the Steal starts with a story of Gerald Blanchard parachuting onto the roof of a Viennese castle, in order to purloin a priceless jewel, the Sisi Star. Then it just keeps going.
View ArticleA Great People in a Great Place
America's successes did not happen because of America's unique political system: They happened despite America's unique political system. America became great not because American democracy was great,...
View ArticleM. S. Corley's Classic Penguin-Style:Book Covers
M. S. Corley has redesigned a number of book covers in the classic Penguin style — Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events, J.K. Rowling's Harry Potter, Holly Black & Tony DiTerlizzi's...
View ArticleThe Predictioneer
New Scientist has a piece on Bruce Bueno de Mesquita, who has successfully branded himself as the predictioneer: Bueno de Mesquita's "predictioneering" began in 1979 when he was on a Guggenheim...
View ArticleEx-Offenders and the Vote
I don't think the New York Times has any idea how it sounds to ordinary Americans when it argues that there is no good reason to deny former prisoners the vote: Millions of ex-offenders who have been...
View ArticleFDR, like Lincoln, was a dictator
FDR, like Lincoln, was a dictator: He governed America more or less personally by decree. Obviously, many people worked for USG in FDR's time; but, as with a normal corporate CEO, none could flout his...
View ArticleRomanticizing the Poor
We're romanticizing the poor, Aneel Karnani says, when we portray them as creative entrepreneurs and discerning consumers whose vast potential can be untapped by micro-lending: All people have moments...
View ArticleA sweet problem
Table sugar, or sucrose, is half glucose and half fructose, because each sucrose molecule comprises one glucose molecule and one fructose molecule, bound together. High-fructose corn syrup is also half...
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