from Asad Zaman The Puzzle of Newton’s Mind Isaac Newton is often celebrated as the ultimate rationalist, the scientist who unlocked the mysteries of the cosmos and ushered in the modern age. But there is a problem with this image—one that is so inconvenient that it has been quietly brushed aside. Newton, the father of modern physics, was also a theologian who wrote over a million words on religious matters. By sheer volume, he devoted more time to obscure theological debates than to the...

Figure 1: Partitions of the Parameter Space Around the Double-Fluke Switch Points This post is a continuation of this series of posts. The fourth and fifth double-fluke cases, in order of an increasing φ t, are symmetrical. The fourth case has two switch points between Alpha and Gamma. One is on the wage axis. The wage curves are tangent at the other switch point, at a positive rate of profits below the maximum. Alpha is cost-minimizing at all feasible rates of profits. Gamma is...

[unable to retrieve full-text content]A former mentor once explained to me why America would be better off if scientists ran the country. While technocracy isn’t inherently anti-democratic—America could simply elect scientists and engineers—the notion smacks of elitism. Of course, this country was founded on the idea of elitism. Only property-owning White men could vote. The president was appointed by […] The post Techno-Stalinism and the death of democracy appeared...

[unable to retrieve full-text content]Jim VandeHei and Mike Allen review Trumps budget cuts. The implication here is it is near impossible to achieve the dramatic cuts without imposing severe penalties on the US Citizenry, The attempt is to balance the budget so as intakes equal outtakes of funds. Except Trump does not want to fix his 2017 tax break. […] The post Planned Budget Cuts and Impact appeared first on Angry Bear.

[unable to retrieve full-text content]When I started out. it was the money. Kind of hard to buy a house and have kids if together you are pulling in $24,000/year. Then when the family starts, one of us will not be working (that was the plan). Get the first job, change jobs at two years, and work your way up […] The post Reasons for Taking a New Job appeared first on Angry Bear.

Podcasts Are we falling for the myth of minority rule? Ayeisha Thomas-Smith is joined by Ash Sarkar By Ayeisha Thomas-Smith 26 February 2025 We are living in a time of contradictions. For the last forty years, our politics and media have been...

[unable to retrieve full-text content]– by New Deal democrat There was unwelcome news in this morning’s repeat home sales reports from the FHFA and Case-Shiller. On a seasonally adjusted basis, in the three-month average through December, according to the Case-Shiller national index (light blue in the graphs below) prices rose 0.5%, and the somewhat more leading FHFA purchase only index (dark […] The post Unwelcome news for homebuyers and the CPI, as repeat home...

[unable to retrieve full-text content]This appears to be a new and unfamiliar use of the word “efficiency”: “The Department of Government Efficiency run by Elon Musk last week published an initial list of 1,125 contracts that it terminated in recent weeks across the federal government. Data published on DOGE’s “Wall of Receipts” shows that more than one-third of the […] The post DOGE is shooting blanks appeared first on Angry Bear.

President Trump talking bollocks .[embedded content] Confirms — again — what we already knew: Trump is a reckless, untruthful, outrageous, incompetent and undignified buffoon!

[unable to retrieve full-text content]The question? How much Federal Public School Funding comes from the Feds? The answer is here and you have to read it for yourself. Not a lot of reading to stymie you. Not terribly difficult. Not even 30 minutes of reading. The first question that comes to my mind? What would happen to schools if […] The post Percentage of Public School Funding Coming from the Feds appeared first on Angry Bear.