War on Cash: New York City Businesses Must Accept Cash, City Council Decides
New York City Council passes legislation requiring businesses to accept cash to take effect nine months after signing by mayor Bill DiBlasio.
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Could Sleeper Trains Replace International Air Travel?
After years of decline, night train services are again expanding, in part to cater to passengers who try to avoid air travel for environmental reasons.
Read more...7 Science-Based Strategies To Boost Your Willpower and Succeed with Your New Year’s Resolutions
New Year’s self-improvement! Tips on how to organize your life to as to improve your willpower.
Read more...A Christmas Sampler
Dear patient readers, I was going to write a post about gift-giving but I had too many non-convergent ideas for it besides wanting to reminisce about my favorite childhood gifts, all for transportation! A sled, a Flexible Flier, which ironically introduced me to infinity (the Flexible Flier had a little image of a Flexible Flier […]
Read more...How Crisco Toppled Lard – and Made Americans Believers in Industrial food
How the successful marketing of Cricso led Americans to accept all sorts of mystery branded foods.
Read more...Thanksgiving Alone
On withstanding the pressure to have a normal Thanksgiving.
Read more...NCAA Votes to Allow College Athletes to Benefit from the Use of Their Names, Images, and Likenesses
NCAA bows to the seeming inevitable and votes to allow college athletes to profit from endorsements: or does it? Details to follow…
Read more...For National Cat Day: The Very Latest in Feline Science
What Is The Best Way To Pet a Cat? What Is It With Cats and Boxes? And so forth.
Read more...Take the (Night) Train Redux
My recent trip on the night train from High Point, North Carolina, to NYC.
Read more...Summertime and the Living is Easy: In Praise of Farmers Markets
Not every aspect of modern life has been crapified: in praise of farmers markets, and the pleasure of making good jam.
Read more...Take a Walk on the Wild Side: Two Hours Spent Weekly in Nature Improves Health
Study shows higher self-reported levels of good health and subjective well-being for those who spend two hours weekly in touch with nature.
Read more...Promotions and the Peter Principle
The Peter Principle lives!
Read more...CalPERS Surveys Employee Toilet Paper Preferences as Underfunding Worsens
CalPERS manages to outdo itself in dubious managerial practices.
Read more...Jonathan Tepper’s The Myth of Capitalism: “Fucking Unreadable”
Author Jonathan Tepper has sent us multiple reader assisted suicide notes, and we are only too happy to oblige.
Read more...Journey into a Libertarian Future: Part IV – The Journey into a Libertarian Past
Further discussion of the implications of the ideas of an influential conservative libertarian.
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