by Larry Shultz | Feb 10, 2024 | Behavioral Economics, Cities, Climate, Democracy, Emergent Properties, Public Health, Public Policy, Retirement
America’s Most Expensive Home for Sale Hits the Market for $295 Million – WSJ Donahue invented mutual funds. Each grandchild gets a cool $1 million at 18 or 21. I have been by there numerous times on a boat and just walking to the south end of the sparkling...
by Larry Shultz | Feb 9, 2024 | Democracy, Education, Public Policy, Science
A very recent OECD skills study showed that citizens, age 16-65, of the USA scored 19th of 20 nations in the adjusted mean numeracy test and 18 of 21 in literacy. For young people age 16-24 in the numeracy test the USA was 24 of 24, and 20 of 21 in literacy. In terms...
by Larry Shultz | Feb 4, 2024 | Biology, Ecology, Human and Civil rights, MPP, NET non-equilibrium thermodynamics and life, Public Policy
https://www.unm.edu/%7Ejdelong/delong2008oik.pdf
by Larry Shultz | Feb 4, 2024 | Biodiversity, Democracy, Education, Human and Civil rights, Public Health, Public Policy, US West
Bundyville: The Remnant – Longreads
by Larry Shultz | Feb 3, 2024 | Behavioral Economics, Democracy, Education, Human and Civil rights, Neuroeconomics, Public Policy
I must say, the USA believes the friggin wholesale business is by definition orders of magnitude morally superior to retail. We also think Christianity is superior to Judaism. When Jews try their hand at our business, we have some strong pre-existing blood libel...
by Larry Shultz | Feb 3, 2024 | Behavioral Economics, Biodiversity, Biology, Biophysical Economics, Democracy, Ecology, Education, Energy, Epigenetics, Evolution, Genetics, Human and Civil rights, Neuroeconomics, Pseudoscience, Public Health, Public Policy, Science, Uncategorized, US West
A Religion of Life | Do the Math (ucsd.edu) We are a story telling species. Stories about “god s” gave selective advantage to groups, who developed greater internal altruism. It rolled the dice in their favor in out group competition and aided in in group...
