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Make your own intellectual family tree.

Pete Boettke recently posted a photo of Virgil Storr's office wall - a beautiful arrangement of photographs depicting Virgil's intellectual heritage. I had a similar desire for my own office, but I lack sufficient pictures for the more recent...

Posted to Austrian Addiction by Austrian Addiction on Wed, Apr 8 2009

Filed under: frames

World’s largest telescope will search heavens for habitable planets like Earth

World’s largest telescope will search heavens for habitable planets like Earth A giant telescope powerful enough to identify habitable planets like Earth in distant solar systems is to be built by scientists. The European Extremely Large Telescope...

Posted to mikguiruram by mikguiruram on Tue, Apr 7 2009

IPRED är ingen anledning att inte fildela

I Metro kan man läsa att internettrafiken halverats sedan IPRED trädde i kraft. IPRED lagen är väldigt lätt att komma runt och det finns ingen anledning att sluta fildela. Här är några tips på tjänster...

Posted to Escaping Leviathan by hkarnoldson on Fri, Apr 3 2009

Filed under: SVENSKA, p2p

Rot at the Core: Dan Ariely on financial crisis & psycho-social aspects of cheating

I just ran across an interesting speech and related commentary provided last month at TED by behavioral economist Dan Ariely , professor at MIT and author of Predictably Irrational . Both the speech and the commentary are worth a look. Ariely's speech...

Posted to TT's Lost in Tokyo by TokyoTom on Fri, Apr 3 2009

Filed under: limited liability, moral hazard, Madoff, behavior, Ariely, TED

Imagine

I often think how unimaginative statists are. When confronted with an argument against government services, or government itself, statists will at some point respond with a fallacy of a false choice. "Well if the government won't provide X, what...

Posted to Apropos Austrian Aphorisms by thedo on Thu, Apr 2 2009

Filed under: henry hazlitt, imagination, faustino ballve

Bureaucracy In Action

I was looking over my posts the other day and said to myself, "Futbol Guru, you sure have become cynical." So I've been thinking about my attitude and trying to decide if I'm being fair or if I've gotten into a rut. Well it's...

Posted to Not-a-Lemming by FutbolGuru on Wed, Apr 1 2009

Filed under: economy, government, politics, Bureaucracy, Republican, democrat

Are We On the Brink of Finding a Second Earth? NASA/Harvard Teams Say “It Could Happen Anytime Now”

Are We On the Brink of Finding a Second Earth? NASA/Harvard Teams Say “It Could Happen Anytime Now” “It could happen almost any time now. We now have the technological capability to identify Earth-like planets around the smallest stars...

Posted to mikguiruram by mikguiruram on Tue, Mar 31 2009

Constitution? What Constitution?

The President of the United States fired the President of General Motors Corporation over the weekend. This would have been unthinkable even a decade ago. But, things have changed and, apparently, this doesn't bother most of the American people or...

Posted to Ron Morley's Freedom Blog by Ronald D. Morley on Tue, Mar 31 2009

Filed under: Federal bailout, Federal government, constitution

The Mises Blog on climate change: a beacon of "dim rhetoric" on a surprisingly successful "Earth Hour"

The Ludwig von Mises Institute (which kindly hosts these pages!) continues to outdo itself on providing empty climate posts, this time by bringing us a new author, Jason King (completely new to LvMI, and apparently with no prior internet-searchable commentary...

Posted to TT's Lost in Tokyo by TokyoTom on Mon, Mar 30 2009

Filed under: mises, Jeffrey Tucker, WWF, Rob Bradley, climate change, Earth Hour, open-access resources

Jim Hansen on Freeman Dyson on climate change

I received the following in an email from NASA climate scientist James Hansen (whom I`ve mentioned a number of times ), in connection with today`s New York Times Magazine article ( "The Civil Heretic" ) on Freeman Dyson , which is now making...

Posted to TT's Lost in Tokyo by TokyoTom on Sun, Mar 29 2009

Filed under: carbon pricing, Exxon, Jim Hansen, climate change

More money to be wasted on U.S. auto industry

It's the day before we are supposed to be told whether or not the Federal government will continue to shovel money into the hands of the moribund American automakers, GM and Chrysler. In spite of protestations from the White House that “bankruptcy...

Posted to Ron Morley's Freedom Blog by Ronald D. Morley on Sun, Mar 29 2009

Filed under: economics, auto industry, bailout

Tele 2 skriver inte på censur

Tele 2 har vägrat förnya samarbetet med polisen. Det är en trevligt överaskning och frisk vind att ett företag som Tele 2 vägrar skriva på en lista vars utallade syfte är att bekämpa barnporr. Det förefaller...

Posted to Escaping Leviathan by hkarnoldson on Fri, Mar 27 2009

Filed under: SVENSKA, yttrandefrihet

Earth Hour and the corporations

I have noticed more and more private corporations are joining Earth Hour. I was unable to find a list but I think this should be addressed as there is actually something we can do about this (unlike the many government institutions joining that we are...

Posted to Escaping Leviathan by hkarnoldson on Fri, Mar 27 2009

Filed under: ENGLISH, enviromentalism

On enviromentalism

During the past week or so I feel like I have been bombarded with propaganda about environmentalist events. Much of it about the upcoming Earth Hour this Saturday evening. Personally I will do the opposite during this hour and celebrate human achievement...

Posted to Escaping Leviathan by hkarnoldson on Thu, Mar 26 2009