On reading Sky TV magazine while sitting on the toilet - "Visually inhaling crap at one and and rectally exhaling it from the other; my corporeal self simply a conduit for the elemental crapforce that binds the universe together"
On Jeremy Kyle - "Everytime I see him its as if someone has just walked over my grave."
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GDP and Well-Being: A fraught relationship.
More or less since 2008 it's been popular to criticise the focus on GDP per capita as a public policy mistake, and a resurgence of scep...
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More or less since 2008 it's been popular to criticise the focus on GDP per capita as a public policy mistake, and a resurgence of scep...
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Poker has long represented a special kind of challenge to AI programmers, and not just because of the huge financial reward to be had by a...
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Warning: this post contains graphs. Many wonderful graphs. According to conventional (read: conservative) wisdom, the Left has a problem...