Live at the Witch Trials

 Is it worth installing solar power in Ireland? Or is it more efficient to build the solar power someplace with more kilowatt hours per pane...

 I argued here  Vaccinate the old fast that the old had such higher Covid fatality rates that it was worth trying to vaccinate as many of t...

 If you do a search on twitter for unapproved vaccine you will find loads of people saying some version of A: I will not take an unapproved...

I keep reading people saying that an alternative to covid vaccinations and social distancing methods are healthy eating and  exercise to red...

Demeny voting is giving children votes to be used by their parents, until the children reach voting age. The interests of children are not ...

Between 10-20% of adults are really scared of needles. Anti Vax people are really hard to persuade. But anti needle people might be easier....

 During the pandemic people drive less. I would expect that to mean fewer deaths caused by driving. But that didn't happen in the US or ...

We should not pay to keep sheep on the high hills of Ireland.  Hill sheep are not very good money earners by themselves. The wool is more ex...

 There is an interesting series of posts by Bryan Caplan here about how the success sequence helps avoid poverty. This sequence is 1. Finis...

 It might not be possible to have zero covid Ireland because too many people have to come into and out of the country. How many trips into a...

Setting up a border between the Republic of Ireland and Northern Ireland is really difficult. The length of the border and number of crossin...

 Here are some of the things I predicted or asked for on this blog and I was wrong about 1. I thought Covid combined with flu this year woul...

Is 2021 a good time to not drink booze for a month? Reasons it is not : Things are tough and if a pint makes them less tough for you in a da...

 I read 33 books in 2020.  My favorite non fiction was We Are the Weather: Saving the Planet Begins at Breakfast by Jonathan Safran Foer  it...

The CDC give  Infection Fatality Ratios for people of different ages as 0-19 years: 0.00003 20-49 years: 0.0002 50-69 years: 0.005 70+ year...

This data is Norway but I will assume the US and other countries would be similar. The full paper is Occupational risk of COVID-19   "...

 ' About seven billion male chicks - not wanted for meat or eggs - are killed around the world each year, usually in shredding machines...

  On February 21, 2020 i blogged here about how ' Ireland should make the Flu Vaccine Free for All' . I thought this because the ris...

Early 2017 I gave some metrics here that could be used to judge Trump's presidency a success on his own terms. Dues to the pandemic I d...

I argued here on February 21st that Ireland should make the flu vaccine free for all this year. This I argued because it would reduce overc...