Media failure: The Happiest Country Nonsense
This week I’ve seen many items about “This is why Finland is the world’s happiest country” – and 100% of these stories are wrong. Not one reporter – not one…
Opinion: Practicing Factfulness based on data.
This week I’ve seen many items about “This is why Finland is the world’s happiest country” – and 100% of these stories are wrong. Not one reporter – not one…
Every year a "World Happiness Index", which measures no one's actual happiness, is published. And every year a Nordic country is crowned and the media makes fools of themselves.
Connections on Curiosity Stream I think he is 90 years old now – double wow. Amazing.
With the declining fertility rate, a majority of U.S. population growth is now due to immigration. Similarly, newly created jobs are going to immigrants.
Science has become a joke. Paper in Nature advocates economic degrowth, but first, we must give more funding and grow the degrowth complex.
In major countries, the government is now 25% to nearly 50% of the economy?
According to the "impressionable years" hypothesis, young people form their political leanings based on contemporary events when they are young. But there is a glaring weakness in this hypothesis ...
One of the dangers of generative AI is that people will use it's false answers or biased answers as "appeal to authority" justification for action.
The official meme was lock downs came from a 14 year old's science fair project, but seems the idea came from China.
India currently provides 40% of the world’s exported rice supply – this does not sound good: ‘Some will go hungry, some will starve’: Global rice shortages feared after India bans…