Author Archives: F. E. Guerra-Pujol

Hello again friends! I am reblogging the post below (via Remember Singapore), which surveys the history of one of Singapore’s oldest bridges and includes some old maps of the “orh kio tau” area of the Southeast Asian city-state.

You may have heard that the United Auto Workers (UAW), one of the largest labor unions in North America, is now on strike (see here or here, for example). What, however, you may not know is that among the union’s … Continue reading →

That is the subject of the podcast episode below. (For my part, it sure looks that way to me!) File under: “Bayesian updating” (look it up!).

Wow! This 45-minute music-mix magically popped up into my YouTube homepage (thank you evil Google algorithms), and I loved every second of it!

That is the title of this suspenseful short story by my fellow writer and friend Luanne Castle. Her one-paragraph story, which was published in the Bright Flash Literary Review, belongs to a new literary genre known as “micro-fiction” or “flash … Continue reading →

That is the title of this report by Stephanie Pappas for Scientific American. (Hat tip: Brian Leiter.) In brief, the word “unless” in Netwon’s First Law (see, for example, the infographic below) should really read “except insofar”; otherwise, the first … Continue reading →

My colleague and friend Peter J. Boettke explores this question in his survey essay for The Routledge Handbook of Philosophy, Politics, and Economics (2022), pp. 267-275, which is available here (for free!) via SSRN. Among other things, Professor Boettke explains … Continue reading →