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Brian Flanagan goes to Ireland

On march third, a young man named Brian Flanagan was refused entry into Ireland. The border police officer he happened to have been paired up with believed the occupation Brian cited as his reason for entry, “user experience designer”, was … Continue reading

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Gold, struggle and old philosophers

Right now, there is a growing protest movement in Peru against a new gold mine. Building it will include draining four lakes and making the local wells unusable due to chemicals seeping into the ground water. You can read about … Continue reading

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The economics of pillow forts

Pillow forts are astonishing things, magnificent testimony to human ingenuity as they are. They are also useful, because in building them, you gain one of the most important insights of economics there is to be learned, namely that there was … Continue reading

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