Assorted links
1. Facebook and TGS, and Robin Hanson reviews TGS. Mike Mandel responds to Karl Smith.
2. Is envy a stronger motivator than admiration?
3. Passing to yourself off the backboard (video).
4. Yet another way of viewing our labor market troubles, or in other words, start-ups have suffered too (NYT blog).
5. Via Chris F. Masse, when will China overtake the U.S. in science? (NB: I’m not convinced by this article).