Nov 07, 2025 from Palladium The Medici Method Florence’s leading medieval family turned a banking career into political power and paradigm shifts in art and science. Their methods hold lessons for philanthropy today. The post The Medici Method...
Nov 01, 2025 from Palladium Factory Farming is a Blight The practices of industrialized animal farming are aesthetically and morally revolting. These practices can be phased out. The post Factory Farming is a Blight appeared first on Palladium.
Oct 24, 2025 from Palladium Why the New Leisure Class Enjoys Activism and Philanthropy Wealthy aristocrats once demonstrated their power and status by entering government, making war, and funding churches and artists. Though the forms have changed, they still do today. The post Why t...
Oct 17, 2025 from Palladium The Birth and Burial of Evolutionary Science in Australia Activists of often mostly European ancestry have appropriated prehistoric cultures and are systematically destroying fossils vital to understanding the evolutionary heritage of all humankind. The p...
Oct 10, 2025 from Palladium Mariners at the Dawn of History Archaeological finds hundreds of thousands of years old have shown human settlement of many of the world’s remote islands, challenging our assumptions of a primitive prehistory. The post Mariners a...
Oct 03, 2025 from Palladium How GDP Hides Industrial Decline A deep-dive into GDP methodology shows that it is neither objective nor an actual measure of production. Serious people should stop using it. The post How GDP Hides Industrial Decline appeared firs...
Aug 29, 2025 from Palladium Why Romania Excels in International Olympiads Students in Romania are sharply sorted with meritocratic tests. The result is a nation punching above its weight intellectually, but not necessarily capturing the benefits. The post Why Romania Exc...
Aug 22, 2025 from Palladium The Case for Crazy Philanthropy Bureaucratic science is already generously funded and does not need more private support. Philanthropists should fund young outsiders, like during the Golden Age of Science. The post The Case for C...
Aug 04, 2025 from Palladium PALLADIUM 18: Biological Inheritance Our summer 2025 print edition is now available to all Palladium members. Subscribe today to receive your copy. The post PALLADIUM 18: Biological Inheritance appeared first on Palladium.
Jul 18, 2025 from Palladium No Country Ever Got Rich From Tourism Factories and offices will always generate far more wealth than hotels and restaurants. Growing tourism is a sign of economic stagnation, not dynamism. The post No Country Ever Got Rich From Touris...
Jul 08, 2025 from Palladium Will Future Civilizations Bother to Excavate Our Remains? The practice of archaeology is almost unique to our contemporary Western civilization rather than universal, and it is unlikely to be continued by future civilizations. The post Will Future Civiliz...
Nov 01, 2023 from bearblog Fix for Error E1 on Tuya Zigbee TRV Smart Radiator Valves Tuya Smart TRVs unfortunately suffer from a design flaw where they will produce an apparently unresolvable error after being stored. Luckily this is an easy fix!
Aug 12, 2022 from bearblog Living in a Building Site: The Over-Development of London’s Housing Estates London's housing crisis necessitates inventive solutions to build new social housing. But have they gone too far at Antony and Roderick Houses?
Aug 10, 2022 from bearblog To Escape the Heat, Just Apply Suncream? Heatwave precautions are a meme. Is it really more important to wear your suncream when outside on a hot day than a cool day? Of course not, but the advice to do so is copied across the media and s...
May 22, 2022 from bearblog YouTube Comment Spam and the Linking Non-Link As somebody who quite often scrolls down to the comments section on YouTube (for my sins), I'm often faced with the innovative tactics that spammers use to get their comments through Google's autom...
Apr 15, 2022 from bearblog A Thought - Maybe More Money is not More Better Nobody understands the economy. But more money is more better, right? Well, maybe. But an economy cannot be based on the creation of money alone.
Jan 10, 2022 from bearblog Bottle Deposits are Bad Policy Bottle Deposits are a popular environmentalist policy worldwide. However, they are a bad policy that imposes outweight costs on society while barely helping the environment.
Jan 08, 2022 from bearblog What are you really doing when you fill in an hCaptcha It's not clear exactly why hCaptcha gives the challenges that it does, but it's certainly more interesting than you might think to take a closer look and try and work out how it all ticks.
Dec 30, 2021 from bearblog New Things of 2021 It's getting to be the end of 2021 - so it's a good time to look through some of the things I bought over the year, and reflect on how they've turned out. Some of them have been rubbish of course, ...
