The
conference will highlight the importance of taxing ultra-high earners
to any serious effort to combat inequality and raise living standards
for the vast majority. A prestigious group of policy experts and
activists will discuss the necessity of raising taxes on the very rich,
and debate various proposals for doing so.
NDIS fraud allegations surge as 25 operators kicked off scheme - The Guardian
Labor hopeful Chris Minns took donation from developer
- by Kate McClymont and Alexandra Smith
CAN WE GET ONE OF THOSE HERE? It’s Spreading: Protest against pro-China “red media” draws tens of thousands in Taipei.
ROLLS EYES. ONLY IN LEFTIST’S WET DREAMS, AS THEY CLUTCH THEIR MARX DOLLS AND SUCK THEIR THUMBS. POLITICS IS A LAGGING INDICATOR. PARTICULARLY WHEN AIDED BY CORRUPT EDUCATION. BUT THE TECHNOLOGY THAT DRIVES THE WAY PEOPLE LIVE IS GOING MORE AND MORE TOWARDS INDIVIDUALISM. THE SOCIALIST INSANITY OF THE 20TH CENTURY WAS DRIVEN BY MASS PRODUCTION AND MASS COMMUNICATION LEADING TO IDEAS OF REGIMENTED SOCIETIES AND COMMUNITARIAN FUTURES. THAT’S THE FUTURE OF THE PAST. SURE, THERE WILL BE SETBACKS, DUE TO POISONOUS SCHOOLS AND CRAZY POLITICIANS. BUT THAT WITCH IS DEAD AND ALL THE DING DONG IN THE WORLD WON’T WAKE HER UP: The Long March of Individualism Comes To A Juddering Halt
Modern conservatives don’t fear social change, they just oppose it when it undermines their friendship
When did calorie counting become offensive? | Spectator USA
You’d think that a math exam would be dry enough to escape demands for a trigger warning, but no.
BLACK COFFEE, BROWN FAT: Coffee Could Have Fat-Busting Effects, U.K. Study Finds.
In a study published Monday, researchers at the University of Nottingham said that coffee may help stimulate our brown fat reserves, also known as brown adipose tissue, which play a key role in how quickly we can burn calories.There are two forms of fat cells, brown cells and white cells, and each plays a different role in our metabolism.While brown cells help generate heat, white cells are responsible for the storage of fat — or, energy — ready for release as needed. Levels of brown fat are known to be high in children but recent findings on the presence of brown fat in adults has restored hope to use them as targets to treat obesity.“Brown fat works in a different way to other fat in your body and produces heat by burning sugar and fat, often in response to cold, said professor Michael Symonds, from the School of Medicine at the University of Nottingham, who co-directed the study.“Increasing its activity improves blood sugar control as well as improving blood lipid levels and the extra calories burnt help with weight loss. However, until now, no one has found an acceptable way to stimulate its activity in humans.”The scientists started by testing out coffee on stem cells to see if it would stimulate brown fat. Once they found the right dose, they moved on to humans to see if the results were similar.
Put on another pot. Why take chances?
A Mysterious And Shadowy Literary Fellowship That Existed In Secret And Then Was Abruptly Canceled
“I remember more experienced writers telling me that I should say yes to every opportunity until I had earned the privilege to say no. But hope is both a strength and a weakness; it takes time to learn the difference between those who feed it and those who feed off of it. I wish someone had told me that early-career writers are the cheap gas on which much of the writing business runs.” – The New Yorker
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Why we should be wary of expanding powers of the Australian Signals Directorate The Conversation. More Five Eyes oddness.
Outrageous raids on journalists in Australia and elsewhere threaten press freedom Expose Facts. Ditto.
LIBERATED GRIFT: A third of women only date men because of the free food: study. “‘Foodie calls,’ can happen when money’s tight, the grocery store is out of a favorite frozen meal, or a must-try entree is just too extravagant to justify — when the tab comes out of your own bank account. . . . The researchers — Brian Collisson, Jennifer Howell, and Trista Harig of Azusa Pacific University and UC Merced — also noted that the woman who felt dating for food was socially acceptable were more likely to exhibit the ‘dark triad’ of personality traits. That’s ‘psychopathy, Machiavellianism, and narcissism’ for those without a PhD in psych.”
Around the world, people likelier to return wallets with more cash Agence France Presse
James Goodnow (Fennemore Craig, Phoenix), Why ‘A’ Students Struggle In Biglaw:
The skills that made you a great student are not enough to make you a great lawyer.
I’ve been thinking for a long time about a piece of advice I received back in my associate days. I was a freshly minted JD. Since I was a kid, I was always motivated to get that “A” in school, and doing so eventually helped me land my first law firm job. When I started practicing, I was confident those grades would translate into the success I could expect as a lawyer.
Then I heard an older partner musing aloud: “Ya know, if I was in charge of hiring, I’d only hire B students. ... Your students who get Cs, you don’t want to hire them. They’re not gonna hack it. But we go out and hire all these law school kids with straight As, and all they know how to do is research, write, and watch Star Wars. They’re going to work a million hours, give you all this great written product, but they’re not going to be out there hitting the bars every night drumming up business. It’s your B students who are in the sweet spot. Smart enough to do the work, but social enough to bring the work in.”
I’ve been mulling this partner’s concept since he uttered it over a decade ago, and I’m still not quite sure where on the spectrum between total nonsense to profound this theory lies. Early in my career, I convinced myself it was nonsense. The more I’ve practiced, however, the more I’ve come to believe that the partner may have been on to something. ...
I ... think this attorney was circling a more basic tension that law firms place on their associates and many young partners: the tension between being a great attorney and a great business developer. ...
Civic honesty is essential to social capital and economic development, but is often in conflict with material self-interest. We examine the trade-off between honesty and self-interest using field experiments in 355 cities spanning 40 countries around the globe. We turned in over 17,000 lost wallets with varying amounts of money at public and private institutions, and measured whether recipients contacted the owner to return the wallets. In virtually all countries citizens were more likely to return wallets that contained more money. Both non-experts and professional economists were unable to predict this result. Additional data suggest our main findings can be explained by a combination of altruistic concerns and an aversion to viewing oneself as a thief, which increase with the material benefits of dishonesty.
That is the abstract of a new paper by Alain Cohn, Michel André Maréchal, David Tannenbaum, and Christian Lukas Zünd. It is easy to say this ex post, but I find this intuitive. Here is the famed country-by-country picture which is circulating:
Here is a picture of the actual vs. the predicted reporting rate. Experts predicted more overall cooperation than turned out to be the case, most of all for the wallets with no money in them, but basically got it right for wallets with lots of money. Non-experts got it backwards altogether.
Hannah Devlin, via The
Guardian
Here’s a moral
dilemma: if you find a wallet stuffed with bank notes, do you pocket the cash
or track down the owner to return it? |
Peter Whiteford, via
Inside Story
Is
Australia becoming more equal, as some observers claim? The evidence tells a
different story
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Lindsay Tigar, via
Ladders
Whether
it’s your boss, your spouse or your friend, work can make people competitive.
Here’s how to handle it.
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