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Archive for July 15th, 2008

Tuesday, July 15th, 2008

Chat Room Begins Operations at AoTP

By Mona
Tomorrow nite (Wed.), at 7 p.m. EDT, I will host The Art of the Possible’s first chat in The Lobby. (First join AoTP, if you have not done so already, in order to log-in to chat.)Topics will sometimes be designated, but tomorrow evening we will simply get to know one another and take [...]

Tuesday, July 15th, 2008

Heresy on physics and diversity

By Thoreau
There’s an interesting article on gender issues in the physical sciences in the New York Times. There’s a lot that can be said about this, a lot of excuses to offer and axes to grind and dead horses to flog and all sorts of other things that have been said by lots of [...]

Tuesday, July 15th, 2008

The heresy of the second-best

By Thoreau
Markets generally need watchdogs. Yes, I just said that. Now, we libertarians generally argue that the best watchdogs would be various private groups, and depending on whom you ask those watchdogs might be insurers, giant private arbitration companies, consumer watchdog groups, industry associations, or whoever. Yes, I know, there are plenty [...]