Author Archives: Oscar Gordon

This TED talk describes some very interesting research about how well kids self-teach

The government website that tracks government spending is unable to account for $1.3 Trillion dollars. This is my shocked face… 😐

Neat idea

From a self-described liberal Sustainable Sentiments – Discussing the Localvore movement & why we can not scale it to feed everyone Political Science – Filleting scientists who got all tribal over the environment, thereby short-circuiting the system of fact checking … Continue reading →

“There’s so much more discretion with the use of force and more room for biases to play out,” Terrill said. “High-school educated officers are more apt to say, ‘I’m the law and I have the authority to make you do … Continue reading →

The economist takes a look and here is a nifty graph to make it clear This part sounds ever so familiar (same problem in large corporations, public schools, law enforcement, etc.) The Goldwater Institute points to a third poison to … Continue reading →

from those European social democracies after all. From the article: But there’s another reason why I can let my daughter swim in the Amstel, and that is that I’m pretty sure that in a well-regulated country like the Netherlands, the … Continue reading →

From this article we get this quote from a police official: “Officers’ safety comes first, and not infringing on people’s rights comes second,” Healy said. So the question is, is this right?  Should an officers safety rise above a citizen’s … Continue reading →

About the effectiveness of interrogation techniques

Pics of bullets passing through water drops