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Global Competitiveness Report: World Economic Forum

The World Economic Forum has released their 2010-2011 rankings of Global Competitiveness, a subject matter so important that it rates Capital Letters to introduce. For each country, the economists from…

Fun

Solar Flares, Coronal Mass Ejections, And Evil Alien Conquerors

NASA, when it can spare time from its outreaching to the Muslims of the world, manages to fit in a little science. Like from its nearly spanking new Solar Dynamics…

Culture

Florida Pastor Won’t Burn Quran: Prediction—Late Posting!

I wrote this Wednesday night, and only learned of Jones's reversal early Friday morning. Since it is now too late to write anything new, I give you my prediction, which…

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The Education Bubble

Talk of the---and I mean the---education bubble is everywhere. But nowhere is it more succinctly or beautifully demonstrated than in a picture created by Mark Perry of the American Enterprise…

Culture

Skip Class Calculator Makes The News

I was saving this for another Conversation With Myself, to show that there are too many kids in school. But it's more appropriate as a lead-in to another story about…

Statistics

Company Stock And Bond Ratings: Skill and Influential Forecasts

If I tell you that it's not going to rain tomorrow, and it doesn't, then I have given you a successful forecast. If I repeat this success a few times,…

Fun

No Labor Today

No bad jokes, no misspellings or other typos, no mysterious themes, no controversies, no ponderous sentences, no imponderables, no nothing. No labor on Labor Day. See everybody tomorrow.

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Obama Approval Rating By Religion

Mormons, according to the pollsters Gallup, are more dissatisfied with Mr Obama than are any other group of folk. And not only that: Mormons' dissatisfaction is dropping faster than is…

Dors on Should Doctors Be Put In Charge Of Making Decisions About Bodies?July 24, 2024
Steelmanning is hardly one of the strong sides of this post. ... You may be entertained, as well as horrified,…
Briggs on Should Doctors Be Put In Charge Of Making Decisions About Bodies?July 24, 2024
All, My enemies have a sense of humor, I see. Normally the typos they insert are embarrassing. This one is…
Gwyneth on Should Doctors Be Put In Charge Of Making Decisions About Bodies?July 24, 2024
Perhaps not just scientism. Years back (2004), I read an excellent book by french author Olivier Clerc (Medicine, Religion et…
Yonason on Covid Is The Boogerman of Maladies: Now It Causes Cognitive Confusion Claim ResearchersJuly 23, 2024
RE Hagfish Bagpipe‘s response above… LOL! Similar to my experience of experiencing reduced mental and physical function briefly after ANY…
Milton Hathaway on Reasons Not To Like Prediction MarketsJuly 23, 2024
Hagfish - I, too, had to laugh at the slot machine TikTok video. Yes, it's funny and it looks pretty…