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Extra Credits: The Myth of the Gun
The focus of this video is the difference between American and Japanese video games, and the development of the first-person shooter, but it includes what I feel is a good deconstruction of American and Japanese attitudes about guns that goes a long way in explaining our differing statistics on both shootings and violent crime overall.
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Private Water Saves Lives: a false dilemma by the Cato Institute
In this article, Fredrik Segerfeldt, author of Water for Sale: How Businesses and the Market Can Resolve the World’s Water Crisis, argues that people in underdeveloped places will be better off if water is privatized. He arrives at this by considering businesses claiming water as their property and selling to people as the only alternative to ( Read more... ) -
Cost of Living, Then and Now: 1860
This is interesting. Someone took some figures in Harrisburg, PA, comparing costs in 1860 to costs in 2010. If you plug those numbers into this inflation calculator, you see some surprising results ( Read more... ) -
The Value and Limitations of the Hive Mind
My mind this morning is on groups. One of the greatest strengths of humans is our ability to organize. I'd have said "to communicate," but that's only half the story. Idle banter gets us nowhere in achieving a goal, unless that goal is simply to be sociable. But with language, a group can act as one, like a hive, and that gets things done ( Read more... ) -
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The Colbert Report
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Here's a link in case that embed code didn't work. It's a video of Colbert talking about Republicans trying to appeal to hispanics, and how many hispanics are "becoming" white.The concept of "hispanic" being a race is an interesting one. Colbert ( Read more... )
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