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Blind Listening Tests – Introduction

November 10, 2020

One of my hobbies is audio, and I am a regular participant over at Audio Science Review, as well as some other sites. I was interested in the subject as a young teenager, and used to listen to a reel-to-reel … Continue reading →

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Hypocrisy Squared

January 25, 2015

I understand, I really do, that people who advocate for drastic policies to arrest climate change might still drive around in a large car or travel by air. They might even buy an allegedly green car with a carbon footprint a … Continue reading →

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Saturday Links: global poverty, inequality, happiness, identities, unemployment benefits, assortative mating

February 8, 2014

Poverty and global inequality are falling. (and perhaps faster than traditional studies indicate) I’ve made this point a few times. The best summary was on Vox EU. In an article called Parametric estimations of the world distribution of income. World … Continue reading →

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How bad can your math get?

December 2, 2012

This photo is being passed around on Facebook.   Quick check Total Govt spend on Healthcare = $1.1 Trillion (National and Local) US Economy Spend on Healthcare (pdf) = $2.7 Trillion Govt. spend on Defense = $0.9 Trillion strictly rendered, the US spends 3X as … Continue reading →

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Why don’t they take my advice?

November 29, 2012

Megan is funny and on target: But something seems to make peoples’ brains drop right out of their heads when it comes to streaming media, causing them to issue pompous lectures to folks in other businesses about how their revenue … Continue reading →

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Fix your soul – by doing…something.

November 29, 2012

Umair Haque has big plans for you: Like what? Like reinventing the rusting iron core of the economic solar system, GDP — to include the costs of planetary catastrophe. Like reimagining national accounts — to count not just money and … Continue reading →

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Endurance Sports – limited mortality gains

November 28, 2012

On the mixed benefits of endurance training What the new research suggests is that the benefits of running may come to a hard stop later in life. In a study involving 52,600 people followed for three decades, the runners in … Continue reading →

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