Prohibition is an ideologically driven failure

Alcohol Prohibition Was a Failure

National prohibition of alcohol (1920-33)--the "noble experiment"--was undertaken to reduce crime and corruption, solve social problems, reduce the tax burden created by prisons and poorhouses, and improve health and hygiene in America. The results of that experiment clearly indicate that it was a miserable failure on all counts. The evidence affirms sound economic theory, which predicts that p...

Terminal Time: An Ideologically-biased History Machine

Terminal Time is a machine that constructs ideologically-biased documentary histories in response to audience feedback. The audience answers multiple-choice questions via an applause meter. The answers to these questions influence which historical events are chosen from a knowledge base, how these events will be slanted to embody the bias implied in the audience's answers, and how the events wi...

prohibition of boiler feed water pump failure in power plant

this paper deals with a failure investigation of boiler feed pump’s shaft of a steam power plant. boiler feed water pump is a specific type of pump used to pump, feed water into a steam boiler and is one of most important part of steam power plants. feed pumps failure may cause failure of another part of steam power station, therefore keep them safe is an important problem. there are 12 feed pu...

Drugs prohibition is criminals’ gain, neuroscience’s loss

The global prohibition of psychoactive drugs has arguably caused more suffering than it could ever prevent. A recent UN report shows that it also stimulates the creativity of those who create new designer drugs and ‘legal highs’. Neuroscientists have warned, on the other hand, that drugs control stifles research that could advance our understanding of the mind and find valuable therapies for me...

An Examination of Ideologically Extreme Congressional Primary Candidates