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Pragmatic Thinking and Learning
Andy Hunt
The more abstract a subject is, the easier it is to reason about and therefore make progress on. That's why we've made a lot more progress in math and physics than any other subject. The problem became more salient recently as some of the perceived scientific progress made in the less pure sciences -- psychology, medicine, economics -- is being nullified in a widespread ["replication crisis"](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Replication_crisis) where many scientific studies are failing to reproduce.
Beware the Metagame
amasad.me
Russia is twice the size of the United States or China, five times the size of India, twenty-five times the size of the UK. However, it has a relatively small population (144 million), fewer people than Nigeria or Pakistan. Its agricultural growing season is short and it struggles to adequately distribute what is grown around the eleven time zones that Moscow governs.
Prisoners of Geography
Tim Marshall
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