Costs and benefits of publishing in legacy journals vs. new journals
I recently published a paper in Open Differential Psychology. After it was published, I decided to tell some colleagues about it so that they would not miss it because it…
Venice wants to be independent: analysis of possible outcomes given self-selection of the voting population
http://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2014/03/europes-latest-secession-movement-venice/284562/ Venice seems to be tired of Italy. It's a bad economic trade off for them. They want to return to their former glory. Good! We need more power decentralization.…
Some thoughts on online voting
I was asked to comment on this Reddit thread: http://www.reddit.com/r/netsec/comments/s1t2c/netsec_how_would_you_design_an_electronic_voting/ This post is written with the assumption that a bitcoin-like system is used. Nirvana / perfect solution fallacy…
Review: Philosophy of Science: A Very Short Introduction
I had low expectations for this book. It was assigned for some humanities class im taking (Studium generale). However, the book is a quite decent introduction to the field. Happily…
Review: Bad Pharma
https://www.goodreads.com/book/similar/19171192-bad-pharma-how-drug-companies-mislead-doctors-and-harm-patients http://lib.free-college.org/view.php?id=864114 Having already read Peter Gøtzsche's Dødelig medicin og organiseret kriminalitet: Hvordan medicinalindustrien har korrumperet sundhedsvæsenet. Art People, 2013, this book did not bring so much new. However,…
Review: Making sense of heritability
Download: http://www.libgen.net/search.php?search_type=magic&search_text=making+sense+of+heritability&submit=Dig+for This is a GREAT book, which goes down to the basics about heritability and the various claims people have made against it. Highly recommended. Best book of…
Review: Who Stole Feminism? (Christina Sommers)
Downloaded from here: http://bookos.org/book/943755/f24cb0 http://bookos.org/book/693807/58eb83 - I came across Sommers years ago when i read her interview here: http://www.menweb.org/paglsomm.htm It had this bit: MS. PAGLIA: Well,…
Ripping books from UMDL Text: Leta S. Hollingworth’s Gifted children, their nature and nurture
http://quod.lib.umich.edu/g/genpub/AGE2118.0001.001?view=toc Due to this book repeatedly coming up in conversation regarding the super smart people, it seems to be worth reading. It is really old, and should obviously be out…
Oh noes DMCA!
05 June 2013 Dear Site Administrator: The undersigned declares under penalty of perjury that I am authorized to act on behalf of the above referenced author, the owner of copyright…
Alternative to Sea Steading: Free State Project
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seasteading https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Free_State_Project
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