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Archive for June 2007

Reefer madness

A recent story about a rise in mental health hospital admissions "due to the use of cannabis" has found me mulling the whole thing over recently. Naturally, there are myriad questions. Most stories like this with simplistic causal models - people doing X also have Y, therefore X causes Y -... More »

The Millionaire and the Fisherman

A wonderful parable for our times, from the latest Anthropik.com post ('In Praise of Laziness'), well worth a re-post: An American investment banker was at the pier of a small coastal Mexican village when a small boat with just one fisherman docked. Inside the small boat were several large yellowfin tuna.... More »


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