- Radley Balko points to Curtis Melvin's efforts to harness the power of the internets to peel back the veil from North Korea: distributed intelligence.
- Bryan Caplan explains the problem with the Human Development Index:
Scandinavia comes out on top according to the HDI because the HDI is basically a measure of how Scandinavian your country is.
- Via Reason, Lomborg on the Climate Industrial Complex. Of course, Cowen would argue this is the only way the sausage can be made.
- Bruce Schneier talks sense on the recent terrorism arrests in the US.
- Lee Gomez on privacy regulation: expensive and ineffective.
- How meerkats know when to ease their young off welfare. But wouldn't any individual pup have an evolutionary advantage if its voice stayed higher for longer?
Saturday, 23 May 2009
Afternoon roundup
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"But wouldn't any individual pup have an evolutionary advantage if its voice stayed higher for longer?"
ReplyDeleteBut they would also pass that trait onto their offspring, which would put them at an evolutionary disadvantage.
Aha, but the whole colony feeds all pups!
ReplyDeleteAhh, probably should have read the article before trying to answer your question then :)
ReplyDeleteBeen here first time....liked your stuff
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