Last night I went to a talk given here at UM by Linda Bacon, a health researcher and proponent of Health At Ever Size (HAES). HAES is a paradigm that says that the health risks of overweight are extremely overblown and that it’s possible for the overweight and obese to lead perfectly fit and healthy [...]
Get this from Slate’s fantastic article on an incredibly powerful new version of Wi-Fi: ‘In a long-anticipated ruling last week, the FCC adopted a regulation (PDF) that could dramatically improve our wireless devices. The rule offered a brand new and much-improved slice of the radio space for unlicensed use. The new frequencies are known as [...]
As you may have noticed, a lot of American infrastructure pretty, well…subpar. As Matthew Yglesias puts it, “This country does not suffer from a shortage of potholes, cracked sidewalks, or other minor problems that tend to not get fixed in a timely manner because of lack of money.” And beyond repairs, we’re also severely lacking [...]
Robert Darnton thinks we should create a National Digital Library, and so do I: “[T]he fundamental idea of a National Digital Library (or NDL) is, at its core, straightforward. The NDL would make the cultural patrimony of this country freely available to all of its citizens. It would be the digital equivalent of the Library of Congress, [...]
Last week Ned Reskinoff wrote a piece for Slate on what it means to “deserve” the money you earn. He actually doesn’t think the notion of “deserving” wealth is coherent at all. Here’s the basic argument: Sure, lots of people do make money through diligence and hard work, but a lot of the time how much wealth you have [...]
As much as we love blogging here at Consider, there are some things that happen during the week that we just don’t get a chance to talk about. Rather than deprive you, dear readers, of this valuable information, we’re starting a new feature called Endpoint. At the end of the week, we’ll aggregate links to the most interesting [...]
