Monday assorted links

1. Thread on the best way to come across new ideas.

2. Profile of Nathan Myrhvold.

3. So many of these movies are bad or overrated or both.  Some start being good at #34 or so.  Some.

4. Hailu Mergia, Dulles taxi driver (NYT).

5. Gains from grunting.

6. Thread on the forthcoming Italian election.

7. The liquidity trap hardly makes a difference for the multiplier.