Engines of Our Ingenuity - The Engines of Our Ingenuity 1521: John P. Parker
Episode: 1521 John P. Parker, slave, freedom-fighter, inventor, and businessman. Today, we follow a slave out of slavery.
More or Less - Is this Premier League striker a secret maths genius?
Chelsea striker Liam Delap has recently stunned fans on Instagram by apparently doing incredibly complicated calculations in his head, finding what’s known as the cube root of some very large numbers.
But is he really a human calculator? Or is there something else going on? Tim Harford speaks to Rob Eastaway, mathematician and author of ‘Maths on the Back of an Envelope’ to learn about the trick you can use to pull this off - and while he’s here we also ask him about the trend of more goals being scored in the Premier League.
Presenter: Tim Harford Producers: Nathan Gower Series Producer: Tom Colls Editor: Richard Vadon Programme Coordinator: Brenda Brown Sound Engineer: James Beard Credit: Video of Liam Delap from Chelsea’s Instagram account, chelseafc
Audio Mises Wire - Machiavelli Is Dead: Why Politics Without Property Rights, Rules, and Moral Limits Cannot Work
Modern political economy is based upon a Machiavellian belief in might makes right. Yet, political power cannot accomplish what free markets and private property rights have done in lifting billions of people out of poverty.
Original article: https://mises.org/mises-wire/machiavelli-dead-why-politics-without-property-rights-rules-and-moral-limits-cannot-work
Audio Mises Wire - The Ruthlessness and Brutality of the US Government
From time to time, the American people need to be reminded who is the boss. The boss is the US government. The citizenry are the serfs, the servants, the subordinates.
Original article: https://mises.org/power-market/ruthlessness-and-brutality-us-government
The Indicator from Planet Money - Just how bad are these job numbers?
It’s a weird time for jobs numbers. Another month, another jobs report pushed back by the Bureau of Labor Statistics. Averaging two private sources, ADP and Revelio Labs: an estimated 4,500 jobs were added in January. Sounds like … not many.
And, yet, the unemployment rate hasn’t seemed to have risen. This might be, in part, due to the Trump administration’s immigration crackdown. We’ll explain through the story of one Angeleno.
On today’s show, how bad are these job numbers? Or are they not bad at all? And what does immigration have to do with it?
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Engines of Our Ingenuity - The Engines of Our Ingenuity 1520: Automobile Drag Coefficients
Episode: 1520 In which automobile makers gradually learn aerodynamics. Today, aerodynamics and automobiles.
Audio Mises Wire - Trump, Immigration, and ICE
Restoring the rule of law and Constitutional government on immigration—something wrecked by Trump's rule-by-decree with federal agents—is vastly more important than expelling illegal immigrants.
Original article: https://mises.org/mises-wire/trump-immigration-and-ice
Audio Mises Wire - Why America’s Two-Party System Will Never Threaten the True Political Elites
The fact that the Republican and Democratic parties are allowed to circulate into key positions of government is proof enough that they are no threat to the true governing elites.
Original article: https://mises.org/mises-wire/why-americas-two-party-system-will-never-threaten-true-political-elites
Audio Mises Wire - The Idiocracy that Is California Politics
If California voters and politicians do not understand the current crisis, we will see the continuous march to perdition as California politicians refuse to acknowledge that they are killing the geese laying the golden eggs.
Original article: https://mises.org/mises-wire/idiocracy-california-politics
Curious City - Why did Chicago widen Ashland Avenue?
If you pay attention to street signs in Chicago, you’ll notice imperfections and many quirks.
Paul Durica of the Chicago History Museum said a coworker informed him that North Avenue becomes North Boulevard when you’re east of Clark Street.
“And I was like, what?” Durica recalled. “And it does! And it's because here we are, now in the park.”
One of Chicago’s major arteries, Ashland Avenue, has a rich history of its own.
In our last episode, we looked at why streets like Ashland are occasionally labelled boulevards (like North Boulevard, sometimes the answer is because the street is adjacent to a park).
Today, we’re looking closer at the history of Ashland Avenue, including how it became a major thoroughfare and why the city widened it at great expense 100 years ago. (The short answer? To accommodate car traffic.) Contributing are Durica and Northwestern Professor Bill Savage, author of a forthcoming book on the anomalies and politics behind Chicago’s grid system.