Categories

Economics

• Why Central Banks Are Reaching a Dead End
• Why Economic Growth is More Important than Gender Equality
• Why It Is Possible to Make Above Average Returns – Even in Efficient Markets
• Why Economics Should Return to its Roots
• Commercials: Not All Publicity is Good Publicity
• Milton Friedman’s Voucher Plan
• Why You Should Always Respect the Dustman
• The Difference between What You Get and What You Earn
• Why Students from Top Universities might be Worse than ‘Not-top’ Students
• Why the High Taxation on Cigarettes is Unjustified
• The Inevitable Unfairness of the Free Market
• The Changed Nature of Money: From Gold to Digital
• The Subjective Nature of Scarcity
• Nature: The Biggest Discriminator in the Workplace
• Swearing Bankers: Is That Going to Make any Difference?
• An Unequal Distribution of the World’s Wealth: Is It Fair?
• Financial Markets: Keeping Up the Illusion of Confidence
• The Coercive Power of Money
• The West versus The Poor: Who is in Charge?
• The Difference between Economic- and Real Demand
• The Trick of Affection
• The Link between Capitalism and Wanting to Kill your Neighbor

Education

• Exams In the Summer Term: The Optimal Option?
• So Little to Say in So Many Words
• Renovation of High School Education
• Teaching Anti-Bully Classes at School
• Are the Exact Sciences being Taught Poorly?

Life

• Why You Should Always Do What You’re Afraid To Do
• What Is the Value of a Human Life?
• What Are You Besides Your Body?
• Interest Cannot be Created: It Can Only be Discovered
• ‘Moral Logic’: a Guide for Political Decision Making?
• Feelings of Shame: Biologically or Socially determined?
• Why People with OCD Give Into their ‘Irrationalities’
• Depression: Thinking Too Much and Doing Too Little
• Getting Addicted to Cigarettes…on Purpose
• The Life of a Twenty-something
• The Ego and The Id: Beauty and The Beast
• We’ve Got You God!
• Purpose, Purpose…Where Are You?
• Quantity versus Quality: Which One to Choose?
• Where do our Minds Go to When We’re Asleep?
• Rembrandt and the Use of only One Canvas
• The Butterfly Effect: How Small Decisions Can Change Your Life
• The Link between Inspiration and Trying to Grasp Gas
• Endowing Robots with Creative Powers
• Euthanasia and the Right to Voluntarily End your Life
• Addiction: A Purpose in a Purposeless World
• Why Our Lives Would Improve if We’d Die at Age 40
• A Short Reminder of the Shortness of Life
• The Purpose of Life is to Look for a Purpose
• The Recurrence of Difficult Decisions
• Reflection or Action: The Absurdity or The Now
• The Nonsense of Feeling Regrets
• Humor and the Role of Randomness
• The Randomness of Life: Who has Chosen our Families?
• Living from Habit to Habit
• What Makes Someone Intelligent?
• Honesty and Friendship: A Good Combination?

Philosophy

• Partnership TheYoungSocrates and the Institute of Arts and Ideas: ‘Unnatural Laws’
• Religion and The Absurd
• How to Justify Consequentialism Without Pointing at the Consequences?
• Why Economics is No Less Scientific than Physics
• Mr. Nobody: A True Philosophical Journey
• What to Do if Absolute Truth Doesn’t Exist?
• Free Will and Why Determinism Would Not Change a Thing
• Beliefs, Desires and Coming Up with Reasons
• Ethics and Mathematics: The Love for Absolute Rules
• Why Are We?
• Why Would You Ever Study Philosophy?
• Time and its Prerequisite to Exist
• Antinatalism and the Right to be Thrown Into this World
• Why Are there Only Men and Women?
• To Kill or Not to Kill, That’s the Question
• Elections and the Duty to be Genuine
• The Mind: What Are You?
• Does The Truth Exist?
• We Are the Masters of Time
• How to Interpret the Notion of Chance?
• Why Are We Here?
• Happiness and Ignorance or Appreciation and Wisdom?
• There is No Life without Death
• How Free Is our Free Will?
• The Mind or The Body: Who Is In Charge?
• The Leap of Faith: The Creative Element of Science
• The Nonsensical Realm of Ontology
• The Inside versus the Outside: What You See versus What Other People See

Society

• Why Polls are a Danger to Democracy
• Why Voting on Trump Now is Especially Bad
• Why Do So Many People Want To Be in a Relationship?
• Why ISIS Is Ignorant, But Not Wrong
• Come On People: Let’s Cut the Crap!
• Should State Media Stop Sharing Jihadi Propaganda-messages?
• Violence against Public Servants: Should It be Punished Harder?
• Just like Sexual Assault, Bullying should be Illegal
• Sex Ever More Present in Pop Music: Problematic or Not?
• Why Euthanasia should be Legal in any Civilized Democracy
• Celebrities and Privacy: An Unlucky Combination
• I Find it Offensive that You Find it Offensive
• Public Opinion and Information: A Dangerous Combination
• Trust and Having Three Locks on the Door
• Why Communities Are Alive
• We’re Underway for Merely 500 Years
• The Dysfunctional Nature of the Internet
• Greeting as a Look Into the Soul
• Why Fear is More Efficient than Love
• The Use of the Panopticon in the Workplace
• Culture and People being Good or Bad
• Banning Cars from City Centres: Utopia, Here We Come
• If You Ask a Question, You Should Expect an Answer
• The Human Walking Face and The Absurd
• What We can Learn from Children
• Mutual Ignorance and the Face of Awkwardness
• The Thin Line between Disgust and Envy
• What is the Value of Beauty?
• The Beauty of Guilt
• People Spend 1/6 of their Lives In Front Of the Television
• The Poisonous Culture of Football
• Perspective on Renewable Energy from a Non-engineer or Physicist
• Longing for Dominance and Loving Dogs
• The Herd that Is Humanity
• Are Women Appreciated for Who They Are?
• The Digital World is The Real World
• Social Value: Friendship or Fame?
• What’s Wrong with Pedophilia and Bestiality?
• Why do People Enjoy Talking about Themselves So Much?

Science

• Why Discrimination Is Reasonable, According to Karl Popper
• Flipping the Hierarchy of the Sciences
• What is Science without “Truth”?
• Do we Need the Social Sciences?
• A Game of Tetris: That’s All the World of Chemistry Is
• The Inevitability and Arbitrariness of Signs
• An Application of Freud’s Theory of Mind
• The Humanities: Are They Truly Scientific?
• Infinity: The Scientific Way of Saying that We Don’t Have a Clue