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  • Thoughts on Science and Predicting the Future

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    Science Blogs: The Science of Predicting the Future Six Italian scientists were sentenced to six years in prison last week for not giving the public sufficient warning of the L'Aquila earthquake. The CNN video is included below. The scientists are appealing the decision, but the fact that this case occurred is sparking debate about science…

  • The Plight of Young, Black Men Is Worse Than You Think

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    BusinessWeek: The Plight of Young, Black Men Is Worse Than You Think The U.S. has the highest incarceration rate of any wealthy nation, with about 2.3 million people behind bars at any given moment. (That’s 730 out of 100,000, vs. just 154 for England and Wales.) There are more people in U.S. prisons than are…

  • Why Happiness as a Public Policy Doesn’t Work

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    Washington Post: The global happiness derby  Robert Samuelson We ought to leave “happiness” to novelists and philosophers — and rescue it from the economists and psychologists who think it can be distilled into a “science” and translated into pro-happiness policies. Fat chance. Government can often mitigate sources of unhappiness (starvation, unemployment, disease), but happiness is more…

  • Be Not Afraid: Global Warming Delusions

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    Wall Street Journal: Be Not Afraid: Global Warming Delusions Article by Daniel Botkin, president of the Center for the Study of the Environment and professor emeritus in the Department of Ecology, Evolution, and Marine Biology at the University of California, Santa Barbara, is the author of "Discordant Harmonies: A New Ecology for the Twenty-First Century"…

  • Climate Change and Setting Priorities

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    This 17-minute clip by Danish economist Bjorn Lomborg is about economic priority setting and major world issues. It acknowledges the problem of climate change and more than a dozen other problems facing the world. Lomborg says that not every problem can be solved, nor can every problem effectively be addressed simultaneously. Some projects make minimal…

  • What Would Jesus Tax?

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    From TCS Daily: What Would Jesus Tax? Excellent article! "When Jesus tells us he will regard the way we treat the hungry, the homeless, the stranger, the sick, and the prisoner as if we were treating him that way, it likely means he wouldn't think capital gains tax cuts for the wealthy and food stamp…