Author Archives: F. E. Guerra-Pujol

What a time to be alive! If you would like to watch today’s solar eclipse virtually, NASA has a great option; hat tip: Dr Jamie Rodriguez: https://science.nasa.gov/eclipses/future-eclipses/eclipse-2024/. Also, as it happens, today (April 8) is the 50th anniversary of Hank … Continue reading →

Named after famed game theorist Anatol Rapoport (pictured below), here are his four rules: Bravo! PS: I discovered Rapoport’s rules in part six of this fascinating blog post by Dr Eiko Fried titled “Antidotes to cynicism creep in academia”.

See here (hat tip: Alex Tabarrok), and the video below (in Spanish):

(Not to be confused with the Shibuya incident in Jujutsu Kaisen (呪 (じゅ) 術 (じゅつ) 廻 (かい) 戦 (せん)), a manga written and illustrated by Gege Akutami.) Via Wikipedia, links in the original: “The Shibuya incident (渋谷事件, Shibuya jiken) was a … Continue reading →

The latest issue of EconJournalWatch is available here. (The table of contents of the new issue is also pictured below.) Two articles in particular caught my attention: one calling into question a series of studies by McKinsey & Company claiming … Continue reading →

Alas, the front-runners for this year’s U.S. presidential elections are a senile octogenarian and a crooked businessman! So, who else is voting for RFK Jr.?

By the way, why is Easter Sunday so “early” this year? Via the Royal Museum Greenwich (RMG), “The simple standard definition of Easter is that it is the first Sunday after the full Moon that occurs on or after the … Continue reading →

File under: FINALLY! Via Wired, check out philosopher Leif Wenar’s devastating and definitive critique of such intellectual con artists like William MacAskill, Toby Ord, and Peter Singer. By way of example, below is a key passage from Professor Wenar’s brutal … Continue reading →