Sunday, June 30, 2019

Space Is Getting Crowded

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Technology Review counts up the upcoming Mars missions. I'm aware of EU and US missions in the past, but who knew these nations would ...
Saturday, June 29, 2019

Purchasing Fertilizer in 1880

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Turns out the 1880 Agricultural Census schedule recorded the cost of fertilizer purchased for the farm. I'm not sure what fertilizers ...
Friday, June 28, 2019

My Perception Gap (Flawed Test)

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I just took the "Perception Gap Quiz".  which has been in the news recently.  It's very brief, and my result is flawed because...
Thursday, June 27, 2019

A Peach Is a Sometime Thing

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Ate a peach this afternoon, perhaps the fourth one I've bought this summer.  It was not a peach; the flesh wasn't yellow but had a...
Wednesday, June 26, 2019

"Militias"

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Which groups of armed men get to be called "militias" and which don't?  Could the Black Panthers have called themselves a ...
Tuesday, June 25, 2019

The Wave of the Future

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NYTimes reports on refugees from Africa coming to Portland, ME.  Part of the reason for their selection of Portland is prior immigrants hav...
Monday, June 24, 2019

Economist Discovers Social Norms

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The issue Scott Irwin, an economist, is considering is how farmers decide(d) either to plant corn late or to go with prevented planting.  T...
Sunday, June 23, 2019

Reparations as Honey Pot

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Under some designs of reparations we might see a " honeypot " effect.  I wanted to write "honeypot", but I find by googl...
Saturday, June 22, 2019

AFIDA Reports and Foreign Ownership of Agricultural Land

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I posted earlier this year on the issue of foreigners buying agricultural land.  At that time I found an obsolete link to FSA AFIDA reports ...

The Resurgence of Whole Milk?

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I've been buying 2 percent milk at the grocery for decades.  In recent years, as I've noted before, the amount of cooler space devot...