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Smurf Healthcare vs. US Healthcare

The Smurfs on HealthcareMy favorite part is how Jokey gets worse and worse as he gets more ‘health care’ from the other smurfs who ‘just want to help.’Here’s Robin Hanson‘s take on health care at EconTalk. He talks a lot about the psychological effect about the act of providing health care. There’s also a lot of [...]

Reminder of How Science Works

DNA Puts Itself Together ‘Impossible’

In case anyone forgot, the world we live in is a wonderful place that the totality of human knowledge barely understands. The world contains matter and energy, they interact in ways that we can see and in ways that we cannot. Science is the process of seeing as much as possible and [...]

Bill and Hillary in 1970

This reminds me of pictures I’ve seen of my parents and their friends in [...]

Second Life CIA

Concerns Over Online Economies as Breeding Grounds For Terror
U.S. intelligence officials are cautioning that popular Internet services that enable computer users to adopt cartoon-like personas in three-dimensional online spaces also are creating security vulnerabilities by opening novel ways for terrorists and criminals to move money, organize and conduct corporate espionage.

The CIA has created a few virtual [...]

Tagged Blog Game

A friend of mine ‘tagged’ me, which comes with a challenge to post 10 random facts about yourself on your blog. So, at the risk of sounding digital diary-ish, here goes.

I haven’t used Microsoft Word (except at work) for almost 3 months. I’ve used OpenOffice and Google Docs to do pretty much everything I need.
I haven’t [...]