It seems I was on track with my earlier assessment of politics. The Guardian posted a short piece on saturday about trial-runs of political programs, with many links to the papers. All of them conducted in developing countries where money for these kinds of programs is sparse. Counter-intuitively, the best way to spend scarce money […]
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When Cheating is not Cheating
In addition to my negative thoughts on monogamy, I came across this interesting piece about betraying your partner today. It references a book I have not yet read (but will), and the argument is that there is more to cheating than sleeping around. In fact, so much more that sleeping around becomes almost an afterthought…
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If you haven’t seen all episodes of Bullshit yet, go and do it now. I’ll wait. There are a few recurrent surface themes in that series. The strongest one is that there is a lot of nonsense out there and that it usually survives because someone makes a profit – be it in money, influence […]
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