Marginal Revolution

Assorted links

by Tyler Cowen on March 27, 2010 at 8:00 am in Web/Tech | Permalink

1. Can a committee make cuts in Medicare?

2. Orson Welles reads Moby Dick.

3. Will the new mortgage plan work?

4. Ten books from Rortybomb.

5. Religious stampedes are the most lethal.

6. The mpemba effect: sometimes hot water freezes faster than cold.

7. Gravity from quantum information?

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