Superstar
We are, each of us, largely responsible for what gets put into our brains, for what, as adults, we wind up caring for and knowing about. No longer at the mercy of the reptile brain, we can change ourselves.
(Source: gifmovie)
The Wrens - Meadowland - “Everyone Choose Sides”
Authenticity and Inauthenticity
What is meant by authenticity is that in acting, one should act as oneself, not as one acts or as one’s genes or any other essence require. The authentic act is one that is in accordance with one’s freedom. Of course, as a condition of freedom is facticity, this includes one’s facticity, but not to the degree that this facticity can in any way determine one’s choices (in the sense that one could then blame one’s background for making the choice one made).
A Practical Guide to Sous Vide Cooking
Everything you need to know about cooking in a water bath at home. I use the Wal-Mart method, i.e. a beer cooler and ziploc bags. Works like a charm
Scarcely anyone interests himself in social problems without being led to do so by the desire to see reforms enacted. In almost all cases, before anyone begins to study the science, he has already decided on definite reforms that he wants to put through. Only a few have the strength to accept the knowledge that these reforms are impracticable and to draw all the inferences from it. Most men endure the sacrifice of the intellect more easily than the sacrifice of their daydreams. They cannot bear that their utopias should run aground on the unalterable necessities of human existence. What they yearn for is another reality different from the one given in this world…They wish to be free of a universe of whose order they do not approve.
Ludwig von Mises, Epistemological Problems of Economics
Sir Wayne Rooney!
By the way, with Canadian tar sands soon to become the largest single source for U.S. oil imports, any advocates of regulatory changes that diminish oil production from offshore U.S. sources on environmental grounds should include in their analysis the environmental effects of marginal increases in tar sands output and other oil sources. (Or did your policy analysis assume that diminished offshore production would be compensated for by people driving less and riding sustainably-fueled robot unicorns more?)
Oil spills, movie stars, robot unicorns and regulation
Nice reminder to consider alternatives when making policy recommendations.
