The one-handed economist

Baby raves The Dutch need to double their spending on water safety and infrastructure to 2% of GDP to deal with climate chaos.

Many countries and people are proud of their UNESCO-certified world heritage sites.

I searched out this 1969 book when we were in Dresden — the eastern German city whose WWII firebombing played a big role in Kurt Vonnegut’s life and perspective.

Podcasts The Political Economy of Palestine Biomimicry, some good examples and some failures Demographic warfare and illegal migration I recommend this podcast, on the impacts of screens and “multitasking” on learning.

This 2018 book by Norwegian Tore Skeie tells the history of the “Vikings” (a 19th century word for a group of people who did not identify with each other; its older use was as a verb: “to vik” meaning to raid) around 1000CE.

I asked Claude lots of questions.

I found a copy of Clavell’s Tai Pan and decided to read it, to learn more about the history of Hong Kong.

Celebrating early?

I do not remember how I heard about this 1971 book by Ivan Illich, but it’s well known as a critique of “modern” (ca 1971) schooling.

I got a copy of the complete Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s Sherlock Holmes, which contains both novels and short story collections.