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centicosm | 7 years ago | on: Georgia Has a Coast?

20% Tax credit with an additional 10% if they include that filmed in Georgia logo in the credits. There may be more but that is the big one I am aware of.

centicosm | 8 years ago | on: Molyneux's problem

This reminds me of the bouba/kiki effect in which there is perceptual cross-talk in auditory and perceptual schemata across all humans. It would be interesting to see if a blind person who became able to see would still label the shapes in the same way.

centicosm | 8 years ago | on: On Being Midwestern: The Burden of Normality

There are interesting agent-based models that explore segregation based on the relatively innocuous idea that people have a tendency to want at least some portion of their neighbors to be similar to themselves (across some dimension). In those models, segregated populations are found to occur with frequency far exceeding what one might think would emerge without explicit intent. http://nifty.stanford.edu/2014/mccown-schelling-model-segreg...

centicosm | 8 years ago | on: Americans Are Dying Younger, Saving Corporations Billions

While smokers or the obese might have a smaller total lifetime healthcare cost, the timing of the costs is likely a factor. As the bulk of healthcare costs typically come from end of life care, the cynic in me explains the concern/anti-smoking campaigns in the workplace as an effort to shift that large cost to a time when the person is a part of the public healthcare system and off the private insurance policy.

centicosm | 9 years ago | on: What I Learned from Executing Two Men

I think many arguments on the death penalty come down to debates about which actions are grizzly or heinous enough and what standard of proof is sufficient. The latter seems to be the one folks seem to have the larger issue with. There are numerous instances of an overzealous or corrupt legal system deciding someone is expendable in order to close a case, advance a career, etc.

centicosm | 9 years ago | on: The Drug of Choice for the Age of Kale

Interestingly, there are hundreds of plants that produce it. Even more interesting, the human body also produces it. There was some human studies that took place in New Mexico. Check out: DMT: The Spirit Molecule for some interesting reading if such studies are of interest.
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