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The Long View 2009-02-27

The Long View 2009-02-27

John J. Reilly was an attorney, a writer, and very well-read. He did like to opine on science, although in my years of knowing him and my subsequent years of going through his writing, he never struck me as a man who approached the world in a primarily quantitative way.

Chili breeding has gone too far

Chili breeding has gone too far

Carcinisation

A non-blinded study

The Long View: On the Wealth of Nations

Adam Smith and his Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations [Amazon link] often serves as a shorthand for current opinions in economics that favor lighter, or even no regulations on economic activity. That isn’t wholly unwarranted, but it is also worth trying to appreciate

The Long View 2007-03-30: Human Nature, Human Rights, Iranian Motives, Goodbye Bees

This is a fun one: I hadn’t remember that John J. Reilly referenced Greg Cochran and John Hawks in 2007. John also mentions a fairly standard criticism of any attempt to understand human behavior in terms of evolution, the Just So Stories of Kipling. It is sometimes true that

Radioactive Evolution Book Review

Radioactive Evolution: A Dystopian, Post-Apocalyptic Adventure by Richard Hummel Hummel Books (November 15, 2018) ASIN B07KLMTZBW I received a complimentary review copy of this book from bookpublicityservices.com Richard Hummel’s Radioactive Evolution is now the third or fourth variant [depending on what counts] on the relatively new LitRPG category