denis bider

Qualifications of writers at The Economist

The cost of supporting the hard-core homeless

Too big to exist

Forest fires and risky interdependencies

American income growth over past 25 years

Debt: let the cataclysm come

Saudi Arabian judge okays killing satellite broadcasters

The ridiculous plot of Stargate Atlantis

Evidence-Based Medicine

Google strikes blow to Microsoft with new browser

Planned public transportation in Santiago

Condemning Russia: Western Hypocrisy

US bubbles and the global savings glut

The coming insignificance of the West

We have enough oil: The Fischer-Tropsch process

Russia strutting the stage

Forget about cholesterol

John Otto

"Water scarcity"

The People's Romance

To die for one's country

What's wrong with the U.S. health care system?

The philosophy that you, too, should follow

Student solves plastic bag 'crisis' in spare time

Maggot party

On Bill Gates's calls for "system innovation"

Manufactured popularity of presidential candidates

The subprime mortgage collapse for dummies

IQ and Global Inequality

What's wrong with this picture?

The doghouse: Seattle Women's Clinic

Nonexistent internet "sexual predator" threat

Learning a subject by catching the lie

Kosovo and thoughts on self-determination

Women overestimate inflation more than men

Poverty: it is an attitude

Wealth, income, consumption, or happiness?

Awful, awful progress

Low-end jobs in St. Kitts vs. Europe

The problem with reducing inequality

Fascist traffic fines in Finland

The law of unintended consequences

France to track "happines" instead of economic progress

Iceland reduces taxes to collect more

Illegality is what makes prostitution harmful

Programming needs Real Men

Taxation in pictures: Why FairTax makes sense

The world's cheapest car: growth in purchasing power

Big government as the law of the strongest

Private law in early Iceland

Art = entertainment

My predictions for the U.S. presidential election 2008

Doofuses against Ron Paul

Non-conformity and groups

The ethics of patent trolling

The free market at work: outsourcing surgery

Totally not like a corrupt, tyrannical empire

The truth about giving

What men are really looking for

Victims on Trial: The Everyday Business of Courts

The "liberal" (= socialist) worldview

The doghouse: Opera files antitrust complaint against Microsoft

Amazon strikes with low prices; the French strike back!

The cost of secure software

A small first step to WikiLaws?

Justly acquired endowments

How big should a minimal state be?

Taxing investment to spend it on consumption

WTC: the controlled demolition hypothesis

Ticket scalpers

The Economist misrepresents, butchers FairTax

Ekonomija po slovensko

The four anti-economic biases

Boycott Santa! Free the elves! Support your local toy store

Passive-aggressive economics

Amazon's "Kindle" book reading device

All hail the Flying Spaghetti Monster!

The pitfalls of harnessing evolution

Idiot politicians - how the U.S. trade deficit is no catastrophe

Photos from a helicopter tour of St. Kitts

The weak versus the strong: the law of the strongest

Is curbing population growth necessary?

A cap-and-trade system to curb population growth

Libertarians claim victory in elections

Heterosis may explain Flynn effect, height paradox

"Journal of Geoclimatic Studies"

How evolution ignores our fanciful wishes

The well-adjusted occasionally smoke pot

Oil peaked, but uranium can last us 'tens of thousands of years'

Thoughts on development in St. Kitts, and some photos

The Russians

Prize for Achievement in African Leadership

Karl Dahlke and food additives

The fallacy of stagnating middle-class income

Cool stuff: skrbl

The Economist's blog on Newsweek happiness

Technical: OctAlloc improved

New photos since May

The curse of Europe

Technical: Heap allocation on multi-core systems