Saturday 18 September 2021

FTAs were a gas: The Tale of India Power VS Singapoor

 https://chem-post.blogspot.com/2019/12/ceca-shocks-of-labour-mobility.html

 

https://chem-post.blogspot.com/2020/01/ceca-dangers-of-labour-mobility.html
 

https://chem-post.blogspot.com/2021/07/government-thinks-singaporeans-too-stupid.html



>Singapore-India CECA was first mooted in 2003 as any Free Trade Agreement between two countries desiring to improve bilateral trade relations ...

>Singapore has a 3.5m home citizens on a tiny 721 km2 space and is a magnet for immigrant workers. India is a behemoth with 1.3b population in 3.2 million km2 land, and high unemployment. With such disparity, an FTA allowing high labour mobility must be the most lop-sided bilateral trade agreement ever signed in the world.

Tuesday 26 November 2019

this shit is amazingly good.

https://www.stroopwafels.com/product/daelmans-jumbo-caramel-single-packs/




i don't usually praise anything dutch, but these stroop waffles are good.


Description

Our Jumbo stroopwafels have a diameter of 9 cm, are filled with a creamy and buttery syrup filling, enriched with natural Bourbon vanilla. They taste even better when you warm them up before you eat them. Just pop a stroopwafel on top of a hot beverage (coffee, tea or chocolate) for 1-2 minutes! The heat will soften the syrup and makes it very tasteful. 
These Jumbo stroopwafels are individually wrapped, which will keep them fresh and perfect for those ‘on the go’ moments.

Ingredients

34% syrup (glucose-fructose syrup, sugar syrup), wheat flour, 14% butter (milk), sugar, vegetable oil (palm, rapeseed),soya flour, salt, emulsifier (soya lecithin), raising agent (E500), cinnamon, natural Bourbon vanilla, acidulant (citric acid).

Allergy information:


Contains: wheat, milk and soy.

Sunday 14 July 2019

The myth of the alpha wolf, and the love of fake news.

https://www.mawer.com/the-art-of-boring/blog/the-myth-of-the-alpha-wolf

The myth of the alpha wolf

November 24, 2015 | Kara Lilly Print

The Inefficient Marketplace of Ideas

Let’s play a thought experiment: what do you know about wolves?
Now ask yourself: how do you know this?
These were the questions running through my mind as I listened to David Mech, one of the world’s foremost authorities on the subject of wolves and the founder of the International Wolf Center. Mech has spent over 40 years studying wolves, even spending several summers in the Artic observing their behaviour in the wild. He has also written 11 books on the species.
I called Mech because I wanted to know why the term “alpha wolf” still exists in mainstream consciousness when scientists have falsified the idea long ago. I figured that what I would learn might help me to better understand why the marketplace of ideas can sometimes be so inefficient. So for about thirty minutes, Mech and I chatted about wolves.
The story of the term “alpha wolf” is fascinating and one in which Mech was an important player. In 1968, Mech finished the manuscript for what would become his best-selling book, The Wolf: The Ecology and Behavior of an Endangered Species. In it, he references the work of Rudolph Shenkel, a biologist who studied the behaviour of wolves in a German zoo in 1944. It was Shenkel who first coined the term “alpha wolf” in reference to his observation that male and female wolves seemed to compete to become dominant within their group. Mech then included the term in his book.
The trouble with Shenkel’s work was that wolves behave very differently in the wild than in zoos. When you take a group of human strangers and put them together, alpha men and women tend to emerge. According to Mech this also happens with other animals, including wolves. But wolf packs don’t form in the wild the way that they do in captivity; instead of strangers being thrust together, wolves form around family units. The “alpha male” in a pack is usually just the “dad,” the “alpha female” just the “mom”, and the rest of the pack follows their lead, not because of some competitive vying for dominance, but because it’s mom and dad.
Mech came to this realization when studying wolves in their natural habitat in the Arctic. When it became obvious that using the term “alpha wolf” in his first book had been misleading, he began to publish articles correcting the misinformation. It took him over a decade, but eventually, the references of “alpha” behaviour among wolves in scientific literature fell precipitously. Unfortunately, Mech has been unable to dislodge the term from mainstream consciousness (to his frustration)....