There’s an old joke about NASA spending millions to develop a pen that wrote in space while the Soviets used a pencil.
Except actually a private company developed the pen at no cost to NASA and sold them to astronauts (US and Soviet) for $2.39 each.
As someone who has lived in both places and has authentically experience innovation culture in both places let me lay it out. There are material explanations, but they are downstream of cultural ones, which are far more immutable.
Material
1. The state sector in Singapore is
I know homeschool parents who spend less than 3 hours a day “doing school” and their kids test several grades above age level.
The kids spend their time building forts, climbing trees, digging holes, playing instruments, helping out around the house, and reading books for fun.
Black homeschool students score 23-42 percentile points above Black public school students across all standardized tests.
No wonder homeschooling among Black families has grown faster than any other demographic, 4X in 5 years!
Humans have the latent ability to regenerate any part of the human body.
This ability is “turned off” in most cases, but not all. And we have made an accidental discovery that will change the world.
There are many cases where regeneration takes place but the one that has been
I sometimes feel like half of what the “tradwives” really want is to be treated as children by their husbands instead of the adult human females they actually are.
Wow.
Joel Salatin, a farmer and regenerative agriculture advocate, has been offered a position within the USDA.
He will advise Thomas Massie who’s agreed to be Secretary of Agriculture.
Here’s the full message posted to his website today:
“The deplorables and garbage
I find it weird how leftist always self-mutilate/harm to “own the rightists”….such a weird and backwards way of thinking.
Another example would be getting naked (or basically naked) as a form of protest. Clothes are meant to protect YOU from men ogling.
99% of women with "gender dysphoria" are actually just experiencing some version of this.
Instead of seeing it as a cry for help, we actually literally cut their breasts off.
I have heard people procrastinate about starting a company because “in this economy?”
Some of the best companies were founded in the worst recessions.
People put off kids because they don’t feel financially secure or mature enough or…
There is no such thing as ready.