When I lost weight I focused on cutting and/or burning more calories. In my humble opinion it would have been a big distraction tying myself to any diet, to any unfamiliar pattern of eating. But then lots of people are different from me: some even enlist in the Marines so they can be told what to do with every second of their lives.
And then there's this: "Why You Will Never Know What ‘Healthy Eating’ Is".
]]>Review of The WEIRDest People in the World: How the West Became Psychologically Peculiar and Particularly Prosperous. The book sounds quite interesting, but I have my doubts about theories that explain too much.
]]>We'll see if there is confirmation. But if it eliminates the need for "dark energy" and "dark matter"--which seem like ugly kludges to me--that's something to recommend it.
]]>"A recent study of US veterans found that 10% of those diagnosed with dementia actually had a liver condition called hepatic encephalopathy (HE) – a treatable condition."
]]>An excellent piece by Arnold Kling. I absolutely agree with all five of his issues "where I get off the libertarian train".
]]>"Promising" at least from the last three quarters of last year.
See also "Productivity is way up--The reason: Americans are getting better at their jobs".
]]>"Promising" at least from the last three quarters of last year.
]]>By noted economist Ted Nordhaus. "Why headlines blaming extreme weather on climate change don’t hold up, the peril of catastrophism, and the case that we’re actually safer than ever before."
]]>The unintended effect being that increases in the minimum wage increases property crime. The effect is possibly caused by job losses among low-wage workers.
]]>Published in the Journal of Law and Economics, February 2016. Abstract:
High-interest payday loans have proliferated in recent years; so too have efforts to regulate them. Yet how borrowers respond to such regulations remains largely unknown. Drawing on both administrative and survey data, we exploit variation in payday-lending laws to study the effect of payday loan restrictions on consumer borrowing. We find that although such policies are effective at reducing payday lending, consumers respond by shifting to other forms of high-interest credit (for example, pawnshop loans) rather than traditional credit instruments (for example, credit cards). Such shifting is present, but less pronounced, for the lowest-income payday loan users. Our results suggest that policies that target payday lending in isolation may be ineffective at reducing consumers’ reliance on high-interest credit. [Italics added.]
]]>. . . a very encouraging two minutes. He makes the case for optimism for our country and labels the election of Abraham Lincoln "the most unlikely event in American history".
]]>Bryan Caplan makes the case that random controlled experiments--the "gold standard" of science--are, in the case of economics, systematically biased.
Joel Kotkin's answer to this excellent question: schools, at all levels, need fundamental reform.
Glenn Reynolds provides an answer to a more specialized question: why is government becoming more stupid?
And yet another partial answer.
]]>Transcript. Podcast (so you can avoid the occasional transcribing error in the transcript).
Luis Garciano's (economics professor at LSE) comments on it.j
One of the most interesting parts of the podcast is Levitt's comments about the Nobel Prize-winning economist James J. Heckman. Just for giggles here's a recent thread on Prof. Heckman at XJMR.
]]>If even half of this is as alleged then even for New York City it is appalling.
]]>Another in a long line of Liberal "fixes" that probably won't fix anything.
]]>That'll be a heck of a record to break.
]]>I, for one, wish Ms. Clark keeps her peace and has all the success in the world.
]]>Leo doing his thing like nobody else.
]]>Record in Game 7s: 10-0.
]]>Live, from 1971, the Allman Brothers.
]]>Todd Rundgren (with Bobby Womack). Link courtesy of Michael G.
]]>"I really can't get enough of these AI covers."
]]>Interesting, for both the total calories and all that sugar.
]]>Duke University and Duke Health Systems is, by far, the largest employer.
]]>It would be one heck of a thing if it not only helped people to lose weight but also ameliorated other harmful addictions.
]]>"A trip through the course catalog is a wild ride."
In case you think the author made up "English 687, Queer LatinX Environmentalisms" here's the Spring 2024 course listing and description.
]]>