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- In politics, religion and other areas of culture, people disagree on the worth of competing ideas. There is no equivalent to the scientific method that…
- Elections, for their part, are typically popularity contests rather than measures of candidates' relative competency or effectiveness. Imagine if scientific truth were determined according to…
- Technological 'revolutions' don't really overthrow anything - they simply append a new and dynamic market to that which went before.
- Another random thing I do is the search for extraterrestrial intelligence, or SETI. And you may be familiar with the movie 'Contact,' which sort of…
- Efficiency in government is a more elusive concept than efficiency in the private economy, which may be measured relatively easily as output per units of…
- The whole hardware industry has experienced the phenomenon in which every time computers get cheaper, they appeal to a new set of users; every time…
- Three things about water affect almost all of cooking. First are the hydrogen bonds, which is why it has an incredibly high boiling point. Another…
- If we could create invention capitalism, that would be a helluva legacy, that would be a helluva thing to do... We could actually turbocharge the…
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