We had a fun house party, the West Oakland Social Democrat Party, at the physical location of Myrtle Street Labs this last Saturday.  Here’s the street cam footage from 7pm until 3am after the party.

Thanks all to everybody who came out, especially to our fabulous djs Mike Evans and Steve Best, and Erik Gilling who [...]

An excellent short article in this week’s New Yorker, in the Talk of the Town section, explains how two cognitive biases make the case for health care reform difficult to make with the American public. I recommend you read the article yourself, but I will summarize its major points here.
The combination of two human [...]

You had probably already figured it out for yourself, but science has proven it.