1. Via Michelle Dawson, a paper with 54 co-authors.
3. Excellent interview with Magnus Carlsen.
4. Good analysis of where the Euro is headed.
5. Measures of income and inequality should adjust for health insurance benefits.
6. Hate mail from third graders; can you guess the topic?
7. Why do gang wars last so long?
#6 – I guessed correctly.
#5 – “As an application of our fuller measure of income, we consider how two provisions of current health reform proposals to expand health insurance affect the level and distribution of economic well being.” What were the findings?
Wow, #2 is just heartbreaking. Imagine if they were human! This would be a global outrage. But because they are birds, this will get generally overlooked.
http://www-tc.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/pluto/images/mail-02-l.jpg <— “A Double Planet”, I lolled.
#3 In the archives you say you used to play chess. When did you stop, and why? Whatever your interest in reading chess related pieces, like this one, why does it not give you a reason to play chess?
Which of your activities could you best substitute chess for?
I hope economics never sees the “many authors” phenomenon. I don’t think merely doing research for a project makes one an author. There are clearly a very limited number of people who can make substantive novel contributions to the literature in any given paper. They are the authors.
This is problematic particularly when other fields (say, neuro) write in economics, which is a field with no history of “first author”, “second author”, etc. Every author is considered to have made a “significant” contribution to the novel aspects of the work when names are simply alphabetized.
interesting that Magnus Carlson says he thinks 20 moves ahead while Kasparov in the interview Tyler posted a month or so ago refused to commit to a number.
I was expecting the link about Magnus Carlsen to be about the worlds strongest man… ooops
Andrew
The bad unintended consequences of most plans are due to not paying attention to the details. I think most people know this and is why they do not trust libertarians govern.
ROT In America: Systematic Discrimination and Exclusion In Federal Reserve (FOMC) Appointments?
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/TheNewForum/message/25976
“I was expecting the link about Magnus Carlsen to be about the worlds strongest man… ooops”
Magnus Carlsen IS arguably the world’s strongest man!
I guessed #6, but sort of cheated, having heard Tyson speak on this topic at Secret Science Club.
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