Magnitude Matters

Which will come first? Intentional detonation of a nuclear weapon as an act of war or A battle with robots fighting robots as the dominant f...

Imagine you are trying to change someone's mind. How would you go about it? What techniques would be effective?  Imagine now you are try...

Now that all the attempts at election stealing are over I feel compelled to put down in writing some predictions about Biden's presidenc...

Here is the low-hanging fruit of public policy. 90% solutions (improvements) on these issues are several orders of magnitude more important ...

About a year ago, I posted on Trump looking at what I saw as the reasons to be optimistic and pessimistic. Let's revisit that now that ...

Tomorrow one third of the United States' government leadership will change hands from one who once promised hope and change to one who n...

Sheldon Richman makes a compelling case that The American Sniper was no hero .  Some questions regarding war, warriors, the military, an...

I want to go to there . I DON'T want to go back to there then . Speaking of a then to be glad we are no longer in, Megan McArdle on ...

Visit these  18 fabulous libraries . Go there (someday) in a "windowless" airplane . Ask if you can fly a drone around inside to...

We live in a world that changes faster than it used to by orders of magnitude. One near-term example of this is pointed out by Mark Perry w...