Author Archives: John Rutledge

How to smite Smoot

(March, 28, 2008) – Here is a great article in the current issue of the Economist that gives measures of the amount of GDP at stake in today’s battles over global trade and immigration. The numbers are huge! Worth thinking … Continue reading

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Ants, Not Man, Invented Agriculture

OK, this is seriously cool. An article in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences reports that Ants Are Experienced Fungus Farmers. Current dogma has it that man only discovered agriculture 10,000 years ago–before that we were hunter-gatherers (actually hunted-hunter-gatherers) living … Continue reading

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