Tuesday, May 26, 2026

History

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The Airline Deregulation Act of 1978 stands as one of the most spectacular vindications of free market principles in modern American history...

An Insight

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Yale’s long-anticipated report: Elite universities, including Yale, played major roles in degrading themselves. It urges Yale to recommit it...

If everybody must be equally well-off all the time, there can be no significant movement up or down.

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Reeves has declared war on inequality – but it is the engine that drives success by Janet Daley.   Written in the context of the evils the ...

I see wonderful things

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Only one chance in this lifetime… Like watching sunset at the beach from the most foreign seat in the cosmos, I couldn’t resist a cell phone...

Offbeat Humor

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This is a bit like my wife and me meeting to discuss the unsuitability of a particular lunar landing location. https://t.co/OYM8Avtb54 — Geo...

Data Talks

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For the 2025 Math SAT, 189,177 students scored 700-800. Of those test-takers, 63% were boys (118,890) and 37% were girls (70,287). Stated di...

It is the folly of too many to mistake the echo of a London coffeehouse, for the voice of the kingdom.

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The Conduct of the Allies (1711) by Jonathan Swift.  It is the folly of too many to mistake the echo of a London coffeehouse, for the voice ...

Data Talks

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今日のセミナーで紹介されていた論文。「親になると良い人間になるのか？」母親だけでなく父親も、妊娠が分かってから有意に犯罪率が下がって、生まれた後も低い水準に留まる。セミナーでは、SNSの投稿も減って、より良いことを投稿するようになっていると報告。子育てから人間学ぶことも多いらしい...

Sun, Sea and Sky: a Summer Phantasy, 1892 by John Atkinson Grimshaw

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Sun, Sea and Sky: a Summer Phantasy, 1892 by John Atkinson Grimshaw (England, 1836-1893) Click to enlarge.
Monday, May 25, 2026

History

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Like just to show how insane this was--British garrisons in Sierra Leone had a 40% annual death rate. This is *twice as bad as Dachau*; it...