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Origins of Woke
Even his harshest critics seem to agree that Richard Hanania’s great new book The Origins of Woke, released today, offers the most plausible and…
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The Return of "Commune-ism"
The most likely scenario by which world human fertility will rise again includes a big return to communism. It will be a small-scale religious “commune…
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Will Nations Fund Fertility?
Added 22Sep: I’ve changed my mind; this post is wrong. Some hope that the world’s fertility fall might be reversed by governments subsidizing fertility…
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Escalating Signals Cut Fertility
My wife and I feed wet food to our two cats Ben and Jerry at the same time every day. Ben spends the whole prior hour crying for that food. He seems to…
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What Does Your Money Vow?
We hold businesses strongly liable for lies, and even for truths that authorities call misleading. Ordinary people, in contrast, are mainly held liable…
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Smiles By Gender
In eight X/Twitter polls I asked how often we smile in this situation: Imagine you are walking down a sidewalk outside, or a store aisle inside. You…
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16 Fertility Scenarios
World population is widely projected to peak around 2050-90 at roughly 9-11B, with ~40% living in Africa. World population would then decline. But how…
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Overcoming Bias
Overcoming Bias
This is a blog on why we believe and do what we do, why we pretend otherwise, how we might do better, and what our descendants might do, if they don't all die.
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