Although most people find it distasteful to put a dollar value on human life, people have been doing it for centuries and these judgements have always had a big impact on people. Before the 1960s, the motivation for putting an…
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Sexual reproduction is rapidly coming to an end.
In Scientific American, Holly Dunsworth wrote that homo sapiens is the only species that understands the birds and the bees. Even apes don’t comprehend the concept that sex leads to babies. Animals don’t need to understand it because they are…
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Unmasking Millionaire Superheroes: Nils Bohlin
Dylan Matthews at VOX shows a graph from the WHO that the trend of rising life expectancy has been continuing since 1990: Life expectancy has been rising fastest in low income countries which have the lowest life expectancy, but average life…
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Capitalism rests on socialist foundations.
Yesterday I noticed that one of my colleagues, Dr. George Lehman, will be giving a presentation entitled, “Having it both ways: Costa Rica as an alternative to the capitalism-socialism debate.” George always gives interesting presentations and whereas I’ll probably agree…
The most important medical advance of the past century
Antibiotics revolutionized medicine, but it is likely that no single antibiotic caused as big of a drop in deaths as a simple over-the-counter medicine that you have probably taken it at some point without appreciating how revolutionary it is. It…
Are the profits at the bottom of the pyramid enough motivation for research and development of appropriate technologies?
The back cover of C.K. Pralahad’s book, The Fortune at the Bottom of the Pyramid: Eradicating Poverty Through Profits says, One market that’s been overlooked is also the fastest growing market in the world, and it’s where you least expect it:…
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The rules of globalization were written to help elites hide money.
Hernando de Soto believes that economic development and capitalism depends upon formal property rights. He has been advocating for making a clear public record of who owns all real estate and to help entrepreneurs register their ownership of their businesses because millions of…
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