Blogs about: Moral Sense
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On the Commons discusses why housholds work
Why do households work as collaborative organizations? Perhaps they don’t. Divorce rates are high. But households remain a consistent venue for sharing and common use. Why? Princeton Univer… more →
Thinking About Technocracy
Michael O'Leary is a parasite
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Tom wrote 4 months ago: After reading an interview with Michael O’Leary, the so called brain behind Ryan Air, I am con … more →
Offside
bennythomas wrote 5 months ago: Astronomer Edwin Hubble demonstrated that all galaxies and distant astronomical objects were moving … more →
Learning to Taste
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cuppingatlanta wrote 5 months ago: Yirgacheffey? Tomato and Blueberry? The first time I even thought about tasting coffee was in a … more →
Book: Collapse by Jared Diamond
timborrego wrote 6 months ago: The subtitle of Collapse, “How societies choose to fail or succeed” is a very good synop … more →
On the Commons discusses why housholds work
Ryan Lanham wrote 10 months ago: Why do households work as collaborative organizations? Perhaps they don’t. Divorce rates are … more →
Ten things learned about transparency
Ryan Lanham wrote 10 months ago: From the Skoll Foundation’s Social Edge blog: Ten things learned about transparency… I … more →
Sneakiness as human nature?
Ryan Lanham wrote 10 months ago: Whether one is much interested in the workings of the mind or related topics in cognitive science, D … more →
Steven Pinker takes on morality and whether humans are ready for it
Ryan Lanham wrote 10 months ago: Pinker is always entertaining. In the NY Times Magazine recently he took on morality and whether h … more →
Funny cartoon: Non Sequitur by Wiley on the Birth of Ideology
Ryan Lanham wrote 10 months ago: Here’s one I liked that was run in the local Cayman paper: The Birth of Ideology … more →
More excellent anti-economics by John Quiggin
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Ryan Lanham wrote 10 months ago: John Quiggin is quickly becoming a favorite read for me. Great stuff here on the risk of moral arbi … more →
Shift of power from West to East?
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Ryan Lanham wrote 10 months ago: Asia Sentinel carries a Sarajit Majumdar article on the seeming power shift from West to East. It … more →
Tremes, memes, and fear
Ryan Lanham wrote 11 months ago: Bryan Alexander’s blog is always worth the time. Today he tackles technical dystopia in the E … more →
Was the whole economy a Ponzi Scheme?
Ryan Lanham wrote 11 months ago: Housing Doom picks up on James Saft’s (Reuters) realistic inquiry published in the Internation … more →
One of the kookier things I am for... radical transparency
Ryan Lanham wrote 11 months ago: Vineet Nayar at Harvard Business Publishing discusses transparency and how much we need it in busine … more →
Running government like a business?
Ryan Lanham wrote 11 months ago: Corpus Collosum, following Bertrand Russell, thinks not. I seem to remember that Wittgenstein warn … more →
Another take on technocracy
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Ryan Lanham wrote 11 months ago: At the wonderful Edge Question Center, which is addictive reading, W. Daniel Hillis gives an excelle … more →
Light In A Dark Place
bennythomas wrote 1 year ago: Moral sense is the spontaneous act of generosity,- and it comes on its own volition in response to a … more →
Energy Profile
bennythomas wrote 1 year ago: Carbon dating works on the principle that animals, plants absorb carbon dioxide from the air as long … more →
V. THE PLEA OF "NECESSITY."
JC wrote 1 year ago: The story is told of an old Quaker, who, after listening for a time to the unstinted praises, by a d … more →
