The Industrial Revolution, spanning the late 18th to early 19th centuries, stands as one of the most transformative periods in human history. Originating in Britain, this epochal shift saw the transition from hand-made production methods in small workshops to...
Hayek, Friedrich A. (1952). Individualism: True and False, https://economicslearning.net/economic/economics-foundations/economics-thinkers/f-a-hayek/individualism-true-and-false-f-a-hayek/ It is the contention that, by tracing the combined effects of individual...
Bitcoin - A Peer-to-Peer Electronic Cash SystemDownload
A lesson on understanding the Technology S-Curve
A discussion of the Myths the Cato Institute believes those “hostile to free markets” believe. Each one is studied to see what we can learn form it.
#1 - Non-aggression principle and victimless crimes “How would a libertarian society address drug addiction, public services, caring for the poor, or reckless businesses? #2 - Free-market economics - libertarians prefer laissez-faire capitalism over government...
In his PDF Milton Friedman lays out his argument for why Government is the Problem. I disagree Friedman Claims that Government causes, deteriorating education, lawlessness and crime, homelessness, the collapse of family values, the crisis in medical...
I found this post on Bloomberg interesting. It supports the belief that having money is important for many reasons, including happiness. Having money takes worry out your life. It takes money to live so having it is important. Here is that post. We need to discuss...
The presentation of the TIDAL Approach to Decision Making. The TIDAL approach is designed to mitigate the perceptual limitations caused by the way our brain works. Selective perception, confirmation bias, motivated reasoning, and cultural/linguistic biases are real things that affect our decision-making.
The third annual National Conservatism Conference was held Sept. 11-13, 2022. Here are 7 "Beliefs" as reported by the Daily Signal - 7 Highlights from National Conservatism Conference. Sen. Josh Hawley: ‘The American Revolution Is a Continuation of the Revolution of...
Using The Social Dilemma Transcript this lesson tries to understand the influences Social Media has on the community and what should we do about it. Updated March 27, 2023
In a recent post, Cass Sunstein suggested that Behavior Economics somehow invalidates F. A. Hayek. I disagree. Using Fractal Thinking, Behavior Economics is perfectly aligned with Hayek and other important economic thinkers like Adam Smith....
[pdf-embedder url="https://atlantisschoolofcommunication.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/HarpersMagazine-The-Origins-of-Speech.pdf" title="HarpersMagazine-The Origins of Speech"] The Origins of Speech In the beginning, was Chomsky by Tom Wolfe Nobody in academia had...
Louder than words: The new science of how the mind makes meaning. By Benjamin K. Bergen. New York: Basic Books, 2012. Pp. 312. ISBN 9780465028290. $27.99 Imagine that you are a participant in the following psycholinguistic experiment. You are seated in front of a...
People who appreciate the beauty of mathematics activate the same part of their brain when they look at aesthetically pleasing formula as others do when appreciating art or music, suggesting that there is a neurobiological basis to beauty. There are many different...
Quarantine Fatigue Instead of an all-or-nothing approach to risk prevention, Americans need a manual on how to have a life in a pandemic. In the earliest years of the HIV epidemic, confusion and fear reigned. AIDS was still known as the “gay plague.” To the extent...
The Cognitive Science of Free Will How to make the best decisions is one of the "Key Questions" the @lantis Learning Community is interested in. This lesson is focused on how the brain constrains our decision making by fooling us about Free Will One of the main...
The new discipline of network neuroscience yields a picture of how mental activity arises from carefully orchestrated interactions among different brain areas. Networks pervade our lives. Every day we use intricate networks of roads, railways, maritime routes and...
Herodotus mentioned whistled languages in the fourth book of his work The Histories, but until recently linguists had done little research on the sounds and meanings of this now endangered form of communication. New investigations have discovered the presence of...
I think the more you want to become more and more creative you have to not only elicit other peoples' (plural) strategies and replicate them yourself, but also modify others' strategies and have a strategy that creates new creativity strategies based on as many...
A Basic Introduction To Neural Networks http://pages.cs.wisc.edu/~bolo/shipyard/neural/local.html What Is A Neural Network? The simplest definition of a neural network, more properly referred to as an 'artificial' neural network (ANN), is provided by the inventor of...
[ted id=2265] Great Video of how we think. Specifically the comments about how we can take very little information and create huge conclusions. 00:12 Imagine that you invented a device that can record my memories, my dreams, my ideas, and transmit them to your...
This lesson on the Neurophysiology of Religion looks at the cognitive science that tries to understand how we process Religious Information.
Iran J Neurol. 2014; 13(1): 52–55. PMCID: PMC3968360 PMID: 24800050 Neurotheology: The relationship between brain and religion Alireza Sayadmansourcorresponding author Author information Article notes Copyright and License information Disclaimer This article has been...
Georgia 6th District — Forbes released its annual rankings of the best employers in America for 2018. There were 17 Companies that might employ residents of the 6th District. This is important. We need to learn what makes these companies the "best" so other...
Fastest growing occupations: 20 occupations with the highest percent change of employment between 2014-24. Wind turbine service technicians - 108% - $51,050 per year Occupational therapy assistants - 43% - $57,870 per year Physical therapist assistants - 41%...
Conservative-Cartoon-Hitler-Trump-Liberals This is how we process information today. Dan Adams+1 Obama, the Democrats and Trump Derangement Syndrome Liberals are completely f***ed up in the head. Frank RobertsBrad, Clearly you miss the point of Fascism. Jews can be...
Metro Atlanta’s own Tom Price, the surgeon-turned-congressman-turned-U.S. Health Secretary, is now getting pummeled for flying around in private jets. Last week, the news site Politico detailed a three-day sprint for which Price spent more than $60,000 on such...
Karen Handel's comment that she does not support a "Livable Wage" supports the narrative that Conservatives in general do not support the idea that poor people deserve any respect or consideration. This post from George Lakoff articulates the notion that how we view...
Tweet A convenience store in Tennessee is featuring a scrolling digital sign outside the gas station offering $50,000 for Kathy Griffin’s head. Lewis Country Store’s Facebook page is littered with controversial messages in an attempt to garner attention. The store’s...
I just learned a new term – Streaming analytics. Apparently streaming analytics is the application of analytics to data while it’s in motion, and before it’s stored – and includes data manipulation, normalization, cleansing and pattern of interest detection. Streaming...
Since the election of Trump to POTUS I have questioned my ability to see reality. I struggle to understand the Trump Narrative. I completely agreed with Obama when he said, "Americans do not elect Donald Trump." And, wow, were we wrong! I just came across a story...
A great post on Economics by Nobel Winner Joseph Stieglitz provides a lot of data for discussion. The title of the posts is "American Inequality Didn't Just Happen, It was Created." (Click here to read the post) Here are some of the things I liked about the post....
To Improve health care and reduce costs we need to change the incentive from making money off of sick people to improving the health of the patient. Tom Price has a plan for Health Care. His plan is to reduce transparency, reduce standards, and increase freedom to...
Joe Scarborough said on Tuesday that the working poor love Trump because Republicans have lied to their constituents for the last thirty years that wealth will trickle down to them if we help the wealthy by cutting taxes. This is not the first time Scarborough as said...
On February 4, 2016 House Republican leaders announced the formation of six committee-led task forces charged with developing a bold, pro-growth agenda. (For updates, visit speaker.gov/confidentamerica.) In and of itself, putting forth a pro-growth agenda is a great...
In the latest GOP Debate Ted Cruz was asked a great question about Healthcare and Obamacare. “Today there are millions of people who gained health insurance from Obamacare and they now rely on it. So the question, Sen. Cruz, if you repeal Obamacare, as you say you...
Taxes are not theft, they are dues. They are dues to belong to the community. They are dues to maintain the common infrastructure required for the community to thrive. Dues are not theft because if you don't want to pay the dues to belong to the community you are...
I happened across Cato Institute's 20 Economic Myths. 20-Market-Myths-Cato-Institute-2007Download Let me start with # 4 - It demonstrates both a Myth and -Straw-man at the same time. The Cato Institute says the following sentence is a Myth. "Markets Depend on Perfect...
Our Representative, Tom Price, is wrong about why you're struggling to make a good living. It is not High Taxes, as he thinks. You're struggling because Automation and International Competition have driven down real wages. Here is what Tom Price says in his latest...
Quick Learn Effectively Manage your Personal Finances Objectives • Grow your personal wealth. • Maintain a good Credit Score. • Reduce your risk of financial hardship. The Facts • Personal Financial Risk is increasing as managing personal finances becomes more and...
The Chart below lets me draw the conclusion that since Obama took the presidency, he has cut our national deficit in half– and it is possible that within the next two years, he could get rid of it entirely. ...
While it might seem that only specialized technical skills like Java programming or network engineering are the best way to get a good job in the 21st Century, that’s not the case. To really get ahead, what a worker needs is social skills....
Tom Price's suggestion in his Healthcare proposal, "Restoring the Trust for All Generations" are wildly and notably extreme. Apparently he sees the enemy as "Washington." This makes sense if you think that Washington is run by Anti-Christians and Socialists and you...
Tom Price's suggestion in his Healthcare proposal, "Restoring the Trust for All Generations" are wildly and notably extreme. Apparently he sees the enemy as "Washington." This makes sense if you think that Washington is run by Anti-Christians and Socialists and you...
Three months after I graduated from college and following a summer journalism fellowship at the Arizona Republic in Phoenix, I had my first interview for a full-time newspaper reporting job. It was in Wilmington, N.C. The managing editor of the newspaper picked me up...
Three months after I graduated from college and following a summer journalism fellowship at the Arizona Republic in Phoenix, I had my first interview for a full-time newspaper reporting job. It was in Wilmington, N.C. The managing editor of the newspaper picked me up...
In a brief and well done video, Colonel Ty Seidule, the Head of the West Point History Department, completely destroys the Neo-Confederate Myth that the Civil War was about anything other than Slavery. Watch it for yourself below:I would say...
Asked if his flat tax plan would further separate the haves from the have-nots, GOP presidential hopeful Sen. Rand Paul (Ky.) said Sunday that income inequality is the result of some Americans working Source: Rand Paul: Income Inequality Comes From 'Some People...
Asked if his flat tax plan would further separate the haves from the have-nots, GOP presidential hopeful Sen. Rand Paul (Ky.) said Sunday that income inequality is the result of some Americans working Source: Rand Paul: Income Inequality Comes From 'Some People...
In a recent Opinion piece in IJReveiew, our Congressman Tom Price, offered yet another vague response to one of most important social issues of our day; how do we achieve a healthy community? He clearly offers no solutions to achieving a healthy community. As is...
The Post below is from Jeremy Mack of The Evangelical Libertarian. I normally would not post something as one sided and non-logical. But, it is being well received in some blogs, so I thought it should be included in our discussions. I am...
The Post below is from Jeremy Mack of The Evangelical Libertarian. I normally would not post something as one sided and non-logical. But, it is being well received in some blogs, so I thought it should be included in our discussions. I am...
If any supposed Jesus-loving “Constitutional Conservative” were to actually sit down and read the United States Constitution, there is something missing that may be of interest to them — any mention of God, Jesus, or Christianity. If we’re...
Inside one reverend’s big business-backed 1940s crusade to make the country conservative again. Read more:...
Symbols of the Confederacy are an inescapable fact of life in Southern states. The Confederate flag is displayed prominently near the South Carolina statehouse, evoked in multiple Southern state flags, flown in frontyards, on T-shirts and...
Change - Complex systems are in a complex state of flux. Focus on what you can control. Do not become attached to one way to do something. Small independent book stores gave way to Barnes and Nobel and other big box book sellers. Then then gave way to Amazon....
Written by Imara Jones Wednesday, January 9 2013, 10:02 AM EST http://colorlines.com/archives/2013/01/10_things_django_wont_tell_you_about_slavery.html Much hullabaloo has been made recently about slavery as entertainment in movies like “Django Unchained" and...
I have divided the Learning Community Web Sites into two categories: Not for Profit (fundamentally ".org" sites) For Profit (fundamentally ".com" sites) The For Profit sites support the Not for Profit sites. But, the key is, the Not for Profit Sites are more...