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Anzac Day Redux

Nicholas Gruen
April 25, 2018April 25, 2018
We're nothing here at Club Pony if we're not banging on about the Issue of the Day and the Issue of the Day is Anzac Day....
Economics and public policy Politics - national

Royal Commission guns for those who are “able but not willing”

David Walker
April 23, 2018April 23, 2018
The Financial Services Royal Commission is in theory a general inquiry into the financial system. In practice, however, something else is on trial: Australian regulatory...
bubble Geeky Musings Miscellaneous Parenting

Thought of the day: could there be an equilibrium of personality types?

Paul Frijters
April 19, 2018
Suppose you buy the idea popular in psychology that there are stable personality types largely formed in childhood and that the population has relatively stable...
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The Death of Australian Children’s Broadcast Television Programming: by Patricia Edgar

Nicholas Gruen
April 19, 2018April 19, 2018
The Director-General of the BBC has now conceded there is a crisis, with young people spending more time viewing Netflix and YouTube than they do...
Films and TV

Spanish Film Festival

Nicholas Gruen
April 19, 2018
Festival Website | Films | Schedule Top Picks Kiki, Love to Love (Opening Night) Through five stories, the movie addresses sex and love. Paco and...
Economics and public policy Public and Private Goods Society

Free digital goods promote wellbeing:SHOCK!!

Nicholas Gruen
April 16, 2018
Using Massive Online Choice Experiments to Measure Changes in Well-being by Erik Brynjolfsson, Felix Eggers, Avinash Gannamaneni - #24514 (EFG PR) Abstract: GDP and derived...
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Sam Harris and Ezra Klein venture within nano-metres of the gaslighting event-horizon

Nicholas Gruen
April 15, 2018April 15, 2018
As I tweeted: I was gripped by this 2 hour intellectual brawl Would Ezra articulate compelling reasons for Sam Harris to rise to self-reflection? Or...

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