For every 1 minute of travel time saved by speeding, roughly 2.5 minutes of human life are lost in speeding-related accidents This stat is from a prior post, the cost-benefit trade-off of speeding. Here is an explanation of how I reached those figures, along...
Today is the anniversary of the Magna Carta. Exactly 800 years ago, King John (the same King John from the story of Robin Hood) signed the document on which the U.S. constitution is based. Some of its passages are now outdated, such...
Is the lottery a tax? Having been challenged on this question countless times in the last few days, two things have become clear to me. People have extremely strong feelings about how the lottery should be categorized. Most of the arguments come down to...