Book Review: The Science Behind Aesop’s Menagerie
In “Aesop’s Animals,” zoologist Jo Wimpenny provides a guided tour of animal behavior drawn from the classic fables.
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Headstrong Girls and Dependent Boys: Gender Differences in the Labour Market Returns to Child Behaviour
Gender-stereotype defying boys and girls appear to carry on that way as adults and pay a financial price.
Read more...How ‘Queer Eye’ Upholds Liberal Economic Fantasies
The popular show focuses on America’s economic victims, offering help only elites enjoy while avoiding critiques of gross inequality.
Read more...In Memoriam Betty White
On the last day of the year, 17 days before her hundredth birthday…. With lots of clips!
Read more...The Magnificent History of the Maligned and Misunderstood Fruitcake
Does the fruitcake get a bum rap?
Read more...Book Review: Demystifying the Idea of Consciousness
In “Feeling & Knowing: Making Minds Conscious,” neuroscientist Antonio Damasio explores the mystery of consciousness.
Read more...War on Cash: NYC Enforces its Cashless Business Ban
NYC sides with those who want to use cash and enforces its cashless business ban, hitting ice cream shop Van Leeuwen with $12000 in fines.
Read more...Villeneuve’s Dune: Reviewing the Reviewers (and a Review)
I would go see it again.
Read more...Swimming With Sharks in the Maldives
Maldivians are changing their attitudes towards sharks, sparking a tourism boom. Tourists bring plastic, creating a waste disposal problem.
Read more...Jackpot Readiness: The (Literal) Pressure Cooker
A potted history of the pressure cooker, and the values immanent within the technology.
Read more...A Football World Cup Every Two Years? An Expert Runs the Numbers
FIFA has floated a proposal to hold the football World Cup every two years rather than every four. Will the overall effect be a positive one for Fifa’s income?
Read more...Musical Interlude: Fathers and Sons
Rick Beato; Bruce Springsteen
Read more...New York Times Exalts Vegan Frankenfoods
The Grey Lady celebrates the culinary alchemy that’s processing plant-based foods so it tastes like meat, dairy, and the pièce de résistance: Spam.
Read more...What I Did Over Labor Day (Dimash!)
Dimash strikes again.
Read more...The Contempt in Tangy Ranch Doritos
Doritos as a case study in companies flavor-reverse-gaslighting their customers.
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