Psychedelic Drugs: The Future of Mental Health
Published on 12 May 2017 LSD, mushrooms, and ecstasy are finally getting attention from serious medical researchers. And their findings are astounding. —- A recent study found that MDMA-assisted...
View ArticleQotD: Big business, crony capitalism and regulatory capture
Now, Pope Francis has the beginnings of a point about large “private corporations” (note the oxymoron), which in their wealth may grow (though only temporarily) to a size rivalling the smaller national...
View ArticleSpace Myths Debunked – Earth Lab
Published on 4 May 2017 From astrology to the temperature in space, Dom counts down the top 5 space myths and explains why they are baloney. 1 http://astronomy.swin.edu.au/cosmos/N/Neutron+Star 2...
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Euthanised For The EU – that’ll reverse the Brexit vote for sure…
On Facebook, Brendan O’Neill responds to an article in the Independent, calling for elderly pro-Brexit voters to just die already: Ian McEwan says the death of ageing voters, “angry old men”, will help...
View ArticleJunkers Fighter Planes – Whiter Feather Movement – Swiss Invasion Plans I OUT...
Published on 13 May 2017 Chair of Wisdom Time! This week Indy talks about Junkers fighter planes, the plans for an invasion of Switzerland and he Whiter Feather Movement. Related posts: That Question...
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The earliest lesson in economics
Steve Kates posted this at Catallaxy Files, saying it was everything you need to know about public spending: Related posts: QotD: Hipster economics Apple may learn the lesson of “option value” with the...
View ArticleQotD: Local government
If, that is, you believe it’s a council’s job to be lecturing takeaways shops, cafes and the like what should and shouldn’t be on the menu. Which personally, I don’t. Surely, if you’re forking out...
View ArticleGeography and Economic Growth
Published on 9 Feb 2016 If you look at the African continent, perhaps the first word to come to mind is “enormous.” And that’s true. You could fit most of the United States, China, India, and a lot of...
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Chorley Park, Ontario’s lost viceregal mansion
Chris Bateman on the odd history of Ontario’s fourth official home of the Lieutenant Governor: Lieutenant Governor of Ontario Elizabeth Dowdeswell is one of four Canadian viceregal representatives to...
View ArticleComparing Royal Marine field ration packs
A fascinating insight into the way the Royal Marines take care of the troops in the field, showing both enlisted mens’ and officers’ ration packs: Related posts: US Marine Corps facing 9% cut in troop...
View Article“The handgun industry uses the word ‘extreme’ like it’s on sale if bought by...
A post by Tamara Keel that may be of interest to my American friends, where getting legal permission to carry a handgun is still theoretically possible (unlike here in Soviet Canuckistan): Extreme...
View ArticleQotD: Politics as an auto-immune condition
From living with eczema, which is a chronic auto-immune disorder, I can tell you that it much resembles the way we stumbled through from the forties (perhaps earlier. But in the forties, Heinlein...
View Article11 Things to see in Athens
Published on 5 Mar 2017 On February i got a few days away to relax from everything. I left you with some automatic videos, so you wouldn’t be without new documentaries and i went on holiday to Athens,...
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The Virtual Lorenz machine
At The Register, Gareth Corfield discusses the new virtual coding device simulating the WW2 German Lorenz cipher machine: The National Museum of Computing has put an emulation of an “unbreakable”...
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Terry Teachout remembers Dragnet
I vaguely remember watching Dragnet on TV, but the version I watched is apparently just a pale imitation of the original series: If you’re fifty or older, you won’t need to be told the source of these...
View ArticleHow service companies might respond to a mandated increase in the minimum wage
At Coyote Blog, Warren Meyer discusses how real world service companies that employ a lot of minimum wage workers are likely to respond when the minimum wage is raised: When I discuss this with folks,...
View ArticleFreaky Friday Politics: Republicans And Democrats Keep Switching Positions
Published on 15 May 2017 Democrats and Republicans are pivoting on issues faster than a bipolar swing dancer on a merry-go-round. Republicans are now big government protectionists. Democrats support...
View ArticleExploring Fort Douaumont With The VERDUN Developers I THE GREAT WAR Special
Published on 15 May 2017 Join our Live Stream with the Developers: http://twitch.com/tgw_series Check out Verdun: http://www.verdungame.com/ We went to the Verdun area in France this winter and...
View ArticleQotD: Britain’s post-Brexit access to the single market
You see, they think they are granting us a privilege by allowing us to sell them things. This is ludicrous of course, it is imports which make us richer, not exports. But let us humour their delusion...
View ArticleThe Only 3 Sandpapers You Really Need | SANDING BASICS
Published on 20 May 2016 Sanding can be time-consuming, tedious and one of the dustiest, messiest, most boring tasks in woodworking. But it’s also something that you’ll have to do in just about every...
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