Mass extinction: The answer to life, the universe and everything is 42
Earth could lose 10 per cent of all plant and animal species by 2050, rising to 27 per cent by 2100, say scientists at the European Commission and Flinders University,…
Economy, Climate: The Four Pillars of Modern Civilization
Four materials rank highest on the scale of necessity, forming what I have called the four pillars of modern civilization: cement, steel, plastics, and ammonia are needed in larger quantities…
Business: “Tipping” at businesses is out of control
At some businesses visited in the past 3 months, a 25% tip was implied as standard. This is getting out of hand. But tipping service workers was essentially built into…
Education: Advanced Placement (AP) courses now seen as evil
AP is thriving in Florida. That’s not a good thing. Source: Florida and Advanced Placement: Why the state has so much affection for the curriculum. AP courses are, apparently evil:…
Comedy: 15 days to flatten the curve is back!
In Dec 2022 we are back to “just 15 days to flatten the curve!” Then just dogs, cats, deer and rabbits would have Covid! And after those two weeks, we…
Education, Demographics: Some colleges now cutting tuition
The increasing size of each new generation, and a push for ever more to attend schooling enabled colleges to continuously raise tuition and fees. With the fertility rate collapse and…
Healthcare: “Out-of-pocket health spending rises at highest rate since 1985”
The “experts” assured us the ACA would fix this. In fact, our premiums would be 4x greater in 2023 than in 2014, to cover 2 people versus 3 in 2014.…
Washington proposes mandatory 2.5 cents per mile vehicle fees
Washington drivers would pay 2.5 cents per mile under recommendation | kgw.com Vehicles could pay by the odometer reading or via a GPS tracking device. The latter would exclude charges…
Public health: “China’s Covid spike not due to lifting of restrictions, WHO director says”
It only takes a tiny bit of logical thinking to understand why this was the eventual and natural outcome of ZeroCovid strategies: Covid-19 infections were exploding in China well before…
Follow up – No: “Inflation Forecasts Were Wrong Last Year. Should We Believe Them Now?”
Models making long range predictions are mostly wrong, all the time. Why do we give them any credence? Go back and look at worthless disease model projections: Economists misjudged how…