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Surprisingly Not The Onion: Man Says McDonald’s Hamburger From 1999 Still...
The sad part is that this is actually a fresh one. (Source) Also, this one is from Burger King. Utah man David Whipple has managed to hang on to a hamburger from McDonald’s since 1999. The...
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The White House: “Drug Policy is a Public Health Issue, Not Just a Criminal...
The White House and ONDCP blogs include a nice piece on drug policy today. It includes this poster-type thingy: Note that #s 1, 2, and 4 are all demand-side interventions, while #3 is an implicit...
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What a Conservative Pivot Towards the Center Might Look Like
Nixon and Mao, 1972. These guys knew how to pivot. (source) Michael Gerson and Peter Wehner (both Republicans) have written a lengthy essay in Commentary Magazine called How to Save the Republican...
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Alien abduction insurance markets in everything
An insurable event. (source) Believe it or not, a London based firm has sold more than 30,000 alien abduction insurance policies throughout Europe. Of course, you’ll need to provide proof of the...
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1. They look real, don’t they? 2. Anyone can be as wise as Deepak Chopra. 3. Afghanistan’s (unofficial) Apple store. 4. Hilarious list of nicknames used by George W. Bush. 5. Sustainable vibrating...
View ArticleDon’t just read newspapers and magazines
This piece by Ron Unz about the media has gotten some attention. Frankly I don’t what’s so interesting about it. The point is supposed to be that “the media” is not very good at its job (where “the...
View ArticleStudents can now major in drones at the University of North Dakota
Via Marketplace: Ben Trapnell says, given the chance, “I absolutely believe that unmanned aircraft systems will have more money invested in them from a civil context than they ever did from a military...
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The Food Pyramid of News
As promised, here is my Food Pyramid of News: This pyramid is restricted to news sources, not information sources in general. A balanced diet of information would include books, (more) journal...
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Surprisingly Not The Onion: SEAL Team 6 member comes out as transgender...
A member of the elite Navy SEAL Team 6 has come out as a transgender woman in a new memoir entitled Warrior Princess. According to Think Progress, Kristen Beck’s memoir comes out Tuesday and details...
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Hello from India
A lot has happened in the last month or so, since I temporarily stopped blogging. I ended one job, started another job, worked hard at that, got a lot better at basketball, attended my grandfather’s...
View ArticleYou know Hinglish is a real language when…
. . . you use the expression “by the way” in conversation with an Indian woman and she says “Oh, so you DO speak Hindi!” at which point you say “No, I don’t,” to which she replies “But you said...
View ArticleIf I feed 40 starving people, how many starving people have I fed?
No, the title of this post is not a typo, and yes, it is a trick question. If you haven’t been following the debate surrounding the Millennium Villages Project, then this article is a very good primer...
View ArticlePodcasts I Loved
1. Maurice Ashley v. George Golden. 2. Are stories underrated, and data overrated? Also see Cowen and Adichie. 3. Speaking of which, this new podcast tells stories about statistics. 4....
View ArticleNot Been Blogging (but will be soon)
I get home from work, sit down at my hotel desk, and get back to work. It feels like I’m working like 2, 2.5 jobs, one here in India and another remotely for a non-profit in the U.S. (among other...
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Do Not Think of Me as Living in India
Many states, many cuisines. I don’t think of myself as living in India, and neither should you. Here’s why: I live in Gurgaon, in the state of Haryana, not in “India.” Yes, Gurgaon is in India, and...
View ArticleThe political culture that is Dubai
Dubai Police has added a Lamborghini Aventador to its fleet, the force announced on its Twitter feed. That is from Al Jazeera, and the cost is $400,000 by the way. Public choice theorists will be...
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Questions I have been asking about rape in India
A 2012 protest in front of the Presidential Palace in New Delhi, following the now-famous gang rape and murder of a 23-year-old student in Delhi. (Via the Atlantic’s excellent photoblog, “In Focus”)...
View ArticleMexico Fact of the Day: Fatter than America
The UN Food and Agriculture Organisation says in a recent report that 32.8 percent of Mexicans suffer obesity, compared to 31.8 percent of Americans. More here.
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1. She’s not kidding. (video) 2. Conservative big government. (photos) 3. Externalities in everything, 1932 edition. (photo) 4. Krugman ventures into political science. 5. J.S. Mill on...
View ArticleSurprisingly Not The Onion: Osama bin Laden Loved Cowboy Hats & Old Western...
Here is Business Insider, reporting on a leaked Pakistani government report: …the Islamic radical who devoted his life to destroying America liked to wear cowboy hats. …Osama grew up watching classic...
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