@asymmetricinfo It goes against all stereotypes but having taken European trains quite a bit over the last few years, Italian trains are consistently cleaner, nicer, and more punctual than German ones. The Munich metro system is great but the inter-city trains are a mess.
@RichardHanania@ATabarrok Holland’s argument is that yes, there were Christians on both sides of debates about things like universal human rights but that the debates themselves were downstream of Christianity - there was no equivalent concept in pre-Christian societies.
I think about this study a lot regarding safetyism. Saving 57 children's lives a year is good, but missing out of 8000 children because of it is extremely bad.
"It is remarkable, and wildly counterintuitive, not only that the question "Who is in charge of the supply of bread to New York?" has no answer, but that the supply of bread to New York is better managed by a system in which there is no answer than by one in which there is." John Kay.
Paul Ehrlich has died. He was 93.
He is survived by 8,300,678,394 people (134% increase from 1968), with a daily worldwide average calorie intake of 2,800 kcal (a 22% increase).
I got to have dinner with Massimo Bottura at his incredible restaurant in Modena a couple years ago. He said something that’s stuck with me: there are only two styles of cuisine in the world, Chinese/French & Japanese/Italian. The first is all about technique and layers. The second is all about quality ingredients and simplicity.