Sixteen Fun Facts About Me Building on a meme started by Bryan Caplan and Richard Hanania. Reason · Jul 9
The Media's Overpopulation Panic Plus: Strait talk, vaccines and the courts, Ted Cruz vs. the Oscars, and more... Reason · Mar 17
Population Doomster and False Prophet of Ecological Apocalypse Paul Ehrlich Has Died The author of The Population Bomb was never right but never in doubt that the world was about to end. Reason · Mar 16
Paul Ehrlich, often called alarmist for dire warnings about human harms to the Earth, believed scientists had a responsibility to speak out Stanford University biologist Paul Ehrlich, who died March 13, 2026, in Palo Alto, California, was a scientific crusader whose dire predictions about population growth, world hunger and environmental collapse made headlines and sparked controversy for decades. The Conversation · Mar 16
French biathlete convicted of credit card fraud wins fourth Winter Olympics medal Julia Simon added a silver to her three golds from earlier in the Games, while defending champion Justine Braisaz-Bouchet finished 27th The Independent UK · Feb 21
Harvard's Avi Loeb Bets $1000: We Will Find Alien Technology By December 2030 Harvard astronomer Avi Loeb bets $1000 against skeptic Michael Shermer that humanity will confirm alien technology by 2030. Learn how the anomalous object 3I/ATLAS could decide the winner. International Business Times UK · Nov 26, 2025
Julian Simon Was Right: Ingenuity Leads to Abundance We live in a world of abundance (when politicians don’t screw it up). Reason · Apr 22, 2024
Climate change solutions require collaboration between politicians, scientists and entrepreneurs Most Canadians agree something should be done about climate change. Yet, even though there is tremendous pressure on politicians to do something, widespread discontent usually follows whatever action they may take. The Conversation · Dec 20, 2023
Rousseau, Malthus, and Thanos Were Wrong The authors of Superabundance make a strong case that more people and industrialization mean a richer, more prosperous world. Reason · Feb 26, 2023
Have we hit the limits to growth? Fifty years ago this spring, one of the most influential books of the twentieth century was published. Written for the Club of Rome by Donella Meadows and colleagues at MIT, The Limits to Growth used new computer models to forecast an uncontrollable collapse in the global population and economy if… Bangkok Post · May 22, 2022