Tim Harford and the distractions
I am rarely inspired these days. But I stumbled across this and was a bit uplifted. Even in dark days there is hope. And I learned something I never knew about the Koln concert.
I am rarely inspired these days. But I stumbled across this and was a bit uplifted. Even in dark days there is hope. And I learned something I never knew about the Koln concert.
The Guardian in the last month has confirmed more or less everything I wrote back in June on Prism/Boundless intrusion. It’s true, tthe NSA/GCHQ are seeing everything. It’s not clear whether today’s revelations show that Snowden is still releasing information after his temporary asylum into Russia or whether it was done before he left…
A method formerly used to baffle fiendish mastermind Fu Manchu comes back into style It’s been a while since the world was threatened by evil genius Fu Manchu. Dr Manchu and his posse of grinning Lascars, Dacoits, and Thugees terrorized the world through the work of Sax Rohmer in the first half of the 20th…
In all the middle-class hand-wringing about the riots, the universal refrain is that the looters are not like us. We look at them as though they are from a different planet. I wonder how true that is. Thinking about this lately, it’s occurred to me that absolute honesty, or even morality, is not a given…
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