Wednesday, 25 February 2015

The most and least addictive foods

In Researchers reveal the most addictive foods Susie Burrell lists the most and least addictive foods.

Most addictive

Pizza
Chocolate
Potato chips
Cookies
Ice cream

Least addictive

Cucumber
Carrots
Beans
Apples
Brown rice

Sweet potato fries recipe

Jill Dupleix has a recipe for Sweet potato fries.

Tuesday, 24 February 2015

Taleb on Black Swans

The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable is the first chapter of Nassim Nicholas Taleb's book The Black Swan.

Monday, 23 February 2015

Sunday, 22 February 2015

Is declining union membership driving inequality?

Nicholas Kristof in The Cost of a Decline in Unions writes that up to a third of the increase in inequality in the USA may be due to the decline in private sector unions.

Tuesday, 3 February 2015

One man's journey from libertarianism to liberalism

Edwin Lyngar in Why I fled libertarianism — and became a liberal explains how seeing the crazies in the libertarian movement, and thinking about the world around him, especially the not so well off, turned him into a registered Democrat.