I was never overly impressed with self-reported happiness indices and country rankings, until I read this 2022 working paper by Blanchflower and Bryson. The paper still uses self-reported data but this time, they add the negative dimensions of personal experience to tabulate a net happiness score. Combining data on around four million respondents from theContinue reading “World Happiness”
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Murray Rothbard
Liberty In Our Time – YouTube channel on libertarian authors A History of Money and Banking in The United States The American Economy and the End of Laissez-Faire (1870 to WW2), lectures delivered by Murray Rothbard
Mushrooms in Eden
Controversy over what’s depicted in the image, and what it may say about early Christians, has raged for decades. BY EMMA BETUEL AUGUST 5, 2021 (Atlas Obscura) Does This Medieval Fresco Show A Hallucinogenic Mushroom in the Garden of Eden? In France, Plaincourault Chapel features a peculiar depiction of the Garden of Eden’s Tree of theContinue reading “Mushrooms in Eden”