The Adventures of Shylock Holmes

It is left as an exercise to the reader to show that, under the law of one price and the absence of arbitrage, the market-clearing pric...

It always warms my heart when the mere title of an essay makes me laugh. Herein, the estimable Theodore Dalrymple, with ' Your Dad is No...

The word ' se'nnight '. It's an archaic word for 'week', being a contraction of 'seven night(s)'. The most i...

Making this a double dose of Hal G.P. Colebatch, if there has been a better poem title than: 'Observing a thong-shod pedestrian's ...

From the New York Times In the last few years, unable to hold a list of just four grocery items in my head, I’d begun to fret a bit over ...

' Vaguely Rude Place Names of the World ' It's good to see Australia get some decent representation in there.

What happens when the whitest band in history covers the second whitest band in history? A whole metric buttload of awesome, that’s what. ...

"Better to live under one tyrant a thousand miles away, than a thousand tyrants one mile away." - Daniel Bliss

1.  Just $10? Why not $50? Now THAT'S a living wage! It's free, after all. 2. Physicists discover that nominal interest rates are...

" Because they enjoy it. Why does anyone do anything? "

Ha! (via SMBC )

Apparently they're making a movie called '42' . Knowing only this much about the movie, it's a useful way to segment peopl...

In the USA, the portion sizes of nearly every food item are significantly larger than in the rest of the world. Except for sugar packets. ...

If there is a more reliable way to produce contentment than to graze under a large mulberry tree for 20 minutes and slowly eat one's way...

I logged on to facebook today for the first time in months, and I had to scroll through several pages of updates before coming across the fi...

"Put your most important content at the top of your slides." Interesting.

From Pax Dickinson : "Mr. President, would the US be better off today if you'd been prosecuted for smoking pot as a youth, or are...

Do it . I dare you .

If you've ever had cause to say 'I'm not like those other guys', it is certain beyond a shadow of a doubt that you are, in f...

I keep telling 'em , but they just don't listen . Not a Shylock Holmes reader, clearly.