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魚會對毒品及非法藥物上癮嗎？ 　　污水處理廠不會過濾這些物質，而且人們也從來沒有將污水處理廠設計成具有這樣的功能。也有許多污水未經處理就進入河流和沿海水域。一旦進入環境，藥物及其副產物就會影響野生動物。在最近發表的一項研究中，捷克共和國的研究人員調查了甲基苯丙胺是否會對野生褐鱒造成影響。甲基苯丙胺，俗稱“冰毒”，是一種在全球使用越來...

把建築做成「空調」，這個讓你涼爽過夏天的「神設計」是怎麼做到的？ 作者 愛范兒 | 發布日期 2021 年 07 月 18 日 7:00 | 分類 科技生活 , 能源科技 | edit 如今世界只是「熱」。除了網路世界眾聲喧嘩，現實世界也熱浪滾�...

Once a society embraces the division of labor, direct exchange becomes increasingly infeasible. Without money, specialization is constrained; without money, dreams of constructing an advanced society are merely a utopian pipe dream. At its core, money is the lubricant for human relations. It simultaneously solves many problems of cooperation while serving as the basis for economic calculation. As awareness of nonsovereign cryptocurrencies has risen dramatically, questions about the history of ...

根據「電腦網路內容分級處理辦法」修正條文第六條第三款規定，已於網站首頁或各該限制級網頁，依台灣網站分級推廣基金會規定作標示。 台灣網站分級推廣基金會（TICRF）網站：http://www.ti...

For many a sign of a modern economy—and for those who know better, a cause of grief—Mexico’s peso comes from the country’s central bank, el Banco de México (the Bank of Mexico). Banxico, as it is often abbreviated, will have a new governor by the end of the year.

The Biden administration’s announcement in mid-April to withdraw American troops looks like a positive first step in the right direction in ending America’s longest military conflict to date. Undoubtedly, questions remain about the sincerity of such a withdrawal, and whether there will still be a residual military presence left over under the cloak of “counterterrorism” or some type of arrangement with private defense contractors to maintain order in the graveyard of empires. Looking b...

Why Economic Models Can’t Provide a Realistic Picture of Human Behavior May 26th 2021, 4:17 pm Mises: "The experience with which the sciences of human action have to deal is always an experience of complex phenomena. No laboratory experiments can be performed with regard to human action." Image Credit: Email While in the natural sciences a laboratory experiment can isolate various elements and their movements can be followed through, there is no equivalent in the economic discipline. The int...

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Mises on Nationalism, Colonialism, and the Right of Self-Determination For Mises, liberalism first emerged and expressed itself in the nineteenth century as a political movement in the form of “peaceful nationalism.” Its two fundamental principles were freedom or, more concretely, “the right of self-determination of peoples” and national unity or the “nationality principle.” The two principles were indissolubly linked. The primary goal of the liberal nationalist movements (Italian, ...

ALL OR NONE: A Most Important Detail for Never Wearing a Face Mask Hey Allan, In Whole Foods yesterday, I had my scarf mask below my nose. A Whole Foods worker asked if I would pull my mask over my nose. I said “No, I can’t breathe like that.” He then said they have a sign telling me I’m supposed to wear a mask. I told him, I know I just can’t do it anymore.  He then told me we could have a happy medium. He asked if he could take my temperature and I could get rid of my mask. I told ...