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Over-grazing and desertification in the Syrian steppe are the root causes of war

Civil war in Syria is the result of the desertification of the ecologically fragile Syrian steppe, writes Gianluca Serra - a process that began in 1958 when the former Bedouin commons were opened u...

How Much Do Things Really Cost?

True Price, a Dutch nonprofit, aims to help us grasp the real costs of consumption. Original article by Nick Romeo In late 2020, a sign appeared on the street outside De Aanzet, a tidy, charming ...

The Historical Context of the Bible

This is a series of 37 lectures covering the ancient historical setting of the Bible. The instructor is Bruce W. Gore M.A., J.D., adjunct professor of biblical studies at Whitworth University, Spok...

Secrets about People: A Short and Dangerous Introduction to René Girard

I understand this introduction to René Girard until he drops the name “Trump”. From there on it is my feeling that the author interprets Trumpism way too positive.

Martin Luther Rewired Your Brain

Your brain has been altered, neurologically re-wired as you acquired a particular skill. This renovation has left you with a specialized area in your left ventral occipital temporal region, shifted...

How Religion Shaped Modern Economics

In the 18th century, a new Protestant belief that people have control over their destinies fostered the rise of free-market ideas. The conventional account of modern thinking about economics start...

‘Trump makes sense to a grocery store owner’ - an interview with Nassim Taleb

‘Trump makes sense to a grocery store owner’ The real problem is the ‘faux-expert problem’, one who doesn’t know what he doesn’t know, and assumes he knows what people think. I think in the l...

Own your own data

Own your own data by MIT: “You share code; you don’t share data. Instead of you sending data to Pandora, for Pandora to define what your musical preferences are, it’s Pandora sending a piece of co...

The vanished grandeur of accounting

An article by Jacob Soll. “Double-entry accounting made it possible to calculate profit and capital and for managers, investors, and authorities to verify books. But at the time, it also had a mor...

Why Should We Support the Idea of an Unconditional Basic Income?

An answer to a growing question of the 21st century American: Basic Income Guarantee Dutch: Basisinkomen “The issue of the basic income gained prominence on the political agenda in Netherlands bet...

Want to Help People? Just Give Them Money

Harvard Business Review writes that GiveDirectly’s rigorous data shows that no-strings-attached cash transfers improve health and downstream financial gains. The data fights conventional wisdom: M...

How Americans view wealth and inequality

John Rawls said that “a just society is a society that if you knew everything about it, you’d be willing to enter it in a random place”. It turns out that when people take a step away from their ow...

Global Christianity and the Rise of the Cellphone

Global Christianity and the Rise of the Cellphone Alan Jacobs writes in the Atlantic about Every Tribe Every Nation, an organization whose mission is to produce and disseminate Bibles in readable ...

The end of social

When you take the friction out of sharing, you also remove the value. On O’Reilly Radar. To me it looks like that the article describes something of a “basic social architecture” perhaps similar ...

Cheap smart phones for developing countries

The Chinese company Huawei is selling IDEOS, 80 dollar smart phones like hotcakes in Kenya. They simply lowered the price by using less powerful hardware and equip it with a free (as in beer) ope...

What really drives the poor

Economists Abhijit Banerjee and Esther Duflo wrote a book on Poor Economics: A Radical Rethinking of the Way to Fight Global Poverty (short article): “Generally, it is clear that things that make ...

A Sustainable Roadmap for the Planet

Bjørn Lomborg (director of the Copenhagen Consensus Center and the author of The Skeptical Environmentalist and Cool It) explains How to Save the Planet: “We forget too easily that innovation and ...

On the current state of academia

Reform the PhD system or close it down: One reason that many doctoral programmes do not adequately serve students is that they are overly specialized, with curricula fragmented and increasingly ir...

On assassinating Osama bin Laden

Peter Leithart wrote in a blog post: “I am glad Osama bin Laden is dead. He was an evil man. And I think the surgical method used to kill him is commendable. The Bible, especially Judges, endorse...

Open Science

Michael Nielsen left academia to write a book about open science, and the radical change that online tools are causing in the way scientific discoveries are made. Open science: Michael Nielsen at ...

23 Things They Don’t Tell You About Capitalism

All 23 things from Ha-Joon Chang’s book 23 Things They Don’t Tell You About Capitalism: There is no such thing as a free market. Companies should not be run in the interest of their owners. ...

Every seventh sprint should be spent cleaning up code

Quote from the book Coders at Work applying a biblical principle to computer coding: Seibel (the interviewer): In one of your talks you quoted Exodus 23:10 and 11: “And six years thou shalt sow th...

Dual Uprisings Show Potent New Threats to Arab States

An article about a pan-Arab youth movement dedicated to spreading democracy in a region without it. They were especially drawn to a Serbian youth movement called Otpor, which had helped topple the ...

Getting Medieval on Higher Education

“The modern system of higher education has existed for little more than a century, and its present, decadent form has materialized only in the last few generations. While I would not seriously advo...

Danger: America Is Losing Its Edge In Innovation

In a global, knowledge-driven economy there is a direct correlation between engineering education and innovation. Global leadership is not a birthright. Despite what many Americans believe, our na...

The Joy of Stats

Documentary which takes viewers on a rollercoaster ride through the wonderful world of statistics to explore the remarkable power they have to change our understanding of the world, presented by su...

A Physicist Solves the City

Modern cities are the real centers of sustainability. According to the data, people who live in densely populated places require less heat in the winter and need fewer miles of asphalt per capita. ...

Inspiration for our (children's) book

Another example of a difficult topic that has nevertheless been translated for the general public (or even children). Mommy, why is there a server in the house? Very inspirational… Let’s use thi...

Housewives of God

In centuries past, evangelical women were not meek about their role in church. Early Baptists allowed women to preach during the Great Awakening, and women were among the most influential revival...

Pop Quiz: How Do You Stop Sea Captains From Killing Their Passengers?

Back in the 1700s, the British government paid sea captains to take felons to Australia. At first, it didn’t work so well: About a third of the males on one particularly horrific voyage died. The...

Hans Rosling: The good news of the decade?

Het blijkt beter te gaan met het bestrijden van kindersterfte (1 van de milleniumdoelen) dan je zou denken op basis van rapporten van de Verenigde Naties. Geweldige presentatie van Hans Rosling! D...