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Part 2: Should Experts Agree? In my last EconLog essay, I examined the impossible tradeoff between expert fields. Each area of expertise is a separate silo, I argued, and we don’t have any good way to strike a balance among these competing perspectives. That’s why the politics of pandemic policy…

by Martin Armstrong COMMENT: Hey, Martin. Thanks for your models and the key insights. My wife, who is an ER nurse, came across this article recently. She read about 90% out loud to me as she believes, based upon her medical knowledge and overall disgust with the hysteria around COVID-19, that this post…

"What's On Top" Answers for 3/30/2020 Mount Everest vs RabbitAnswer: Mount Everest Swimming vs ChessAnswer: Swimming Garden of the Gods vs LovebirdsAnswer: Garden of the Gods Avocado vs Derwent ReservoirAnswer: Avocado Santa Catalina Island vs WildebeestAnswer: Wildebeest Berlin Wall vs ArganiaAnswer: Berlin Wall Bhumibol Bridge vs KrakatoaAnswer: Krakatoa Toco Toucan…

A portrait of the late singer Selena Quintanilla is seen in the crowd following a posthumous star ... ceremony for Quintanilla on the Hollywood Walk of Fame on Friday, Nov. 3, 2017, in Los Angeles. (Photo by Chris Pizzello/Invision/AP) Chris Pizzello/Invision/AP “Where were you when Selena died?”  At a dinner…

Before coronavirus shuttered museums across the country, the Guggenheim was home to one of the most unusual architecture exhibits of the year. Countryside, the Future explores how the world’s non-urban territories might one day be designed, and it is a collaboration between legendary architect Rem Koolhaas and Samir Bantal, the…

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Posted by Huw, 25 Mar 2020 18:00Today's set has been selected by myth: This little spacecraft, 6875 Hovercraft, was my first ever set. From what little I remember from that time, as I was 5 or 6 years old, I immediately fell in love with LEGO and the whole space…

In 1985 the great Colombian noble prize-winning author Gabriel García Márquez published his world-famous book: "El amor en los tiempos del cólera". Spanish speakers immediately caught the title's irony, lost in English translation. We can understand the title in four different ways. We can read it as: "Love in a…

The Soviet Union wanted their own space shuttle — and eventually built something eerily reminiscent of NASA’s space shuttle. Its performance was similar to that of the space shuttle as well. So why did it only have three hours of flight time? Suspicious Birth: Soviet suspicions of the American space…

The realisation that life is going to change for a good while is starting to take hold. To flatten the curve of the COVID-19 outbreak, radical measures of social distancing are currently being rolled out in an increasing number of countries. People are being urged – or instructed – to…