helps found the Black Liberation Army, and becomes the first woman ever to appear on the FBI’s most wanted terrorist list when she escapes from prison in America to a self-imposed exile in Cuba after being convicted of murdering a police officer. In...
I know it’s been a while, and I attribute my declining blogging productivity to two factors: needing to devote my attention to the second edition of my textbook (see below), and working under the guidance of a declining population of neurons. It turns out that 71-year-old-brains have s...
Learning from policy experimentation is a promising way to approach the “wicked problem” of climate adaptation, which is characterised by knowledge gaps and contested understandings of future risk. However, although the role of learning in shaping public policy is well understood, and experiments ar...
We’re about to enter the thick of general-election season, which means we’re about to get a boatload of polls. Problem is, it can be hard to know which polls to…
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A premature declaration of victory by Trump would have no legal bearing, but he could then point to the shift as evidence of fraud to cast doubt on Pennsylvania’s vote, as he’s made false claims about voter fraud numerous times already. But in reality, such a swing would simply be ...
So staying invested in the yellow metal means investors lose the benefit of being invested in interest-bearing assets like bonds or cash accounts.Conversely, the appeal of these assets declines when rates fall, leading gold demand to recover....
Nearly forty years ago Ian Smith, the Prime Minister of Rhodesia, became the first and only white colonial ruler to break away from the British Crown. He had ti...
Fruit, by contrast, is the seed-bearing food that forms from the flowers of plants and trees. Squash, pumpkin, cucumbers, eggplant, peppers, and tomatoes are often regarded as vegetables, but in reality they’re all fruits. These foods grow from the plant’s flower, and all contain seeds...
“The capitalist value of a “work ethic” has always been present in the world of the hobbyist. We love hobbies because they are something to do that isn’t work, something that we choose to do. But they still so often require toil; we are still proud of ourselves when we perform ...