- People are not having kids more because of a cultural shift than affordability (demand shifting in rather than sliding up and down).
- Texas has more renewables than California because TX allows markets to work.
- Listen to this discussion on the downsides of globalization
- Higher inheritance taxes are better for society and equality. Listen.
- The collapse of AMOC (the current that keeps northern Europe warm in winter) is now more than likely before 2050. Sharpen your ice skates!
- Keanu Reeves: “The Matrix changed my life… and that of many others.” Watch.
- America has so many laws that nobody can count the ways you can end up in jail.
- Vienna’s “social” housing is a gift to the middle class, not the poor. Related: Why rent control doesn’t work podcast.
- More schools are banning phones. Good.
- An air-conditioner’s “money saving mode” is really “not-as-cool mode”
H/T to PB