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Category Archives: Science
Fifty Ways to Leave Leviathan
In the current issue of The Freeman is “Fifty Ways to Leave Leviathan“, where Max Borders & Jeffrey Tucker discuss some of the bottom-up, libertarian-oriented dynamics rapidly changing society, and with the potential to bypass the State. There’s a brief … Continue reading
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How Did English Get To Be The International Language Of Science?
From Popular Science: More than 98 percent of all scientific articles published today are in English, but that hasn’t always been the case. “There used to be one language of science in Europe, and it was Latin,” says Michael Gordin, a … Continue reading
Drake Equation: UCal-Berkeley/UHawaii Study
Here’s the Drake Equation again, actualizing itself, right before our eyes, towards 1.00. Of a study published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences: There are likely “tens of billions” of Earth-like planets in our Milky Way galaxy, … Continue reading
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Charles Murray: Uncommon Knowledge Interview
Here’s the full 47 min Uncommon Knowledge interview with the great Charles Murray, discussing how White America is ‘Coming Apart’.
Anti-Science Teabaggers
Prof Kahan surprises himself: A finding in a study on the relationship between science literacy and political ideology surprised the Yale professor behind it: Tea party members know more science than non-tea partiers. Yale law professor Dan Kahan posted on … Continue reading
Blood Diamonds
From a Guardian article on Jared Diamond, whose lifetime enmeshed in the barbarisms of places like New Guinea nonetheless don’t seem to have made a dent in his liberal pieties: The Kaulong people of New Britain used to have an extreme … Continue reading
Nobel Winners & Countries
National Geographic has an interesting, and quite telling, chart showing Nobel Prize science winners (since the awards began in 1901) by country of the recipient lives in. And here are the largest Nobel winning affiliations for the sciences:
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Americans’ Declining Reading Proficiency
From the LA Times: The reading skills of American adults are significantly lower than those of adults in most other developed countries, according to a new international survey. What’s more, over the last two decades Americans’ reading proficiency has declined … Continue reading
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Pew: A Portrait of Jewish Americans
Pew Research has a new study on Jews in America, polling their attitudes on jewish identiy among other things. American Jews overwhelmingly say they are proud to be Jewish and have a strong sense of belonging to the Jewish people, … Continue reading
David Landes: RIP
David Landes has died at the age of 89. My eyes were widened by his most influential book, The Wealth and Poverty of Nations: Why Some Are So Rich and Some So Poor (1998). His was a bold analytical take … Continue reading