Category: Web/Tech

1. Markets in everything: gay coffins (seems vaguely offensive to me).  And here are some "gay Christmas trees."

2. Belizean Jewish rapper out of jail.

3. Photoessay on Quito.

4. Video killed the professor.

5. Crackdown on chess will save our cities.

6. Are AS people more likely to be atheists and agnostics?

7. How do people use their iPads?

1. Harvard Ph.d. students on the job market this year.

2. Ireland fact of the day.

3. The culture that is Germany.

4. Goolsbee wins major award.

1. The missing equation (cartoon).

2. Very bad science fiction and fantasy covers.

3. What will happen, and here is the book to come.

4. On the Fed's new monetary policy, and the surrounding political debates, it's worth rereading…me.

5. Science cheerleaders.

6. How the idea of data is revolutionizing the humanities.

1. The influence of Richard Florida in Great Britain.  And here is his Canadian urban trick-or-treat index.

2. Ed Glaeser on entrepreneurship in NYC history; he should write a book on this.

3. Britain follows Bhutan.

4. Direct link to precognition draft.  I'm still a skeptic, to say the least.

5. Why Ireland matters for everyone.

6. Science-related tattoos; how about MV = PT?

7. Privatizing Medicare, year by year?

8. The anti-QE signers.

1. The best argument I've heard for making the deficit a priority.

1. Interesting folks.

2. The filing of horse teeth is now deregulated; Harberger triangle shoo.  Some practitioners of "horse teeth floating" had been making $300,000 a year.

3. Elephant + Rhino video.

4. Does seeing meat make men less aggressive?

1. Will the Republicans cut a budget deal, from Steve Teles?

2. Does the Flynn effect hold across all IQ levels?

3. Ender's Game movie trailer.

4. Porpoises rescue Dick van Dyke.

5. Was British colonialism good for India?

1. How cats lap.

2. I knew something like this would happen.

3. Accents.

1. I don't think Reihan is actually disagreeing with me here.  And here is Reihan on Ireland.

2. Tim Harford's economist Twitter list.

3. 16p11.2.

4. A new way of measuring price indices, using the internet.

5. Currency rap battle (video).

6. David Bromwich on Obama.

7. Interfluidity on moral heuristics.

1. Who supports free trade?

2. Progressive taxation by any other name?

3. Literature and economics, massive on-line volume, free, smart people.

4. Henry on Ireland and public choice and how the mess came about.

5. Zoellick clarifies his remarks on gold; it's not a gold standard he is advocating.

6. Geophagy.

7. Is QEII behind commodity price inflation?

1. Bryan Caplan, statistical theist?.  I sometimes say that the GMU blogging group is divided into theistic and atheistic thinkers, as we have several of both.

2. Tim Harford is switching to Twitter (don't tell Mario Rizzo).

3. Markets in everything?: pay for red lights to go green.

4. What is the main lesson of this short video?

5. Markets in everything: cell phone storage for high school students, liquidity premium exceeds carrying costs edition.

6. Liebowitz and Margolis on where the lock-in literature went wrong.

7. Walter Russell Mead on Obama.

1. Should they privatize Pompeii?

2. Gateway books for Turkey.

3. The debate in Massachusetts over fee-for-service, and here.

4. Martin Wolf criticizes the gold standard.

5. Economist Paul Zak hugs all of his co-workers.

6. Are balanced arguments more persuasive?

7. Hoover Institution now has a blog.

8. Papers with humorous titles are cited less often.

1. Just give the poor cash.

2. Interview with John McPhee.

3. A writer who is losing language.

4. The political economy of the Roman constitution.

5. Raghu Rajan on QEII.

6. Amazon best books of 2010 list.

7. "leaves some marks on their faces…"

1. Applying RCTs to the rot of hamburgers.

2. PW Best Books of 2010 list; not my picks.

3. Read the comments on this article; "the culture that is NW Washington"?

4. Speculative hypotheses about China and QEII; interesting but not all well-founded.

5. The class he would like to teach.

6. Cap and trade for antibiotics?

7. Zadie Smith reviews Social Network.