Category: Web/Tech

1. Shoup replies to O'Toole on minimum parking requirements.

2. Are economists human?

3. Interview with Oliver Sacks.

4. "too much justice?" — interview with Harvey Mansfield.

5. God vs. Satan, in the Bible.

6. Nine evidence-based study tips?

1. In defense of factory employment.

2. Bill Dickens defends education against the signaling model.

3. In defense of links.

1. In defense of reading James Joyce.

2. Luxury retailing booms while discount houses suffer.

3. Cooking for 80,000.

4. The early history of publishing.

5. Small town pros (very interesting, and it's about sports).

6. The culture that is Japan.

7. New Guardian science blogs.

1. The maturity structure of publicy-held debt (scary, like a teaser-rate mortgage).

2. How big a stimulus did we need?

3. Waltz with Bashir and now Lebanon are two of my favorite movies over the last five years.

4. Garett Jones on Twitter: "Cities are popular. Cities are population sinks. Thus cities are able to circumvent ev psych urges. How?"

1. Photos of abandoned homes.

2. James Ward: "I Like Boring Things"; here is one typical post.

3. Rob Bradley on Enron.

4. Early proposals for gender-neutral pronouns.

5. Only the men on this dating site need be from Harvard.

6. Can you tell when CEOs are lying?

7. How panhandlers use free credit cards, via Chris F. Masse.

1. Guide to the Econo TwitterVerse.

2. How good are heavy metal singers?

3. Do the rich spend more from tax rebates?

4. Good photos of the frozen aquarium.

5. A redesign of U.S. bank notes?

6. Nearly complete works of Igor Stravinsky, conducted by Stravinsky, 22 discs, $33.98.

1. China car story of the day.

2. David Brooks on the Germans.

3. Very good post on whether ex post compensation can help much with climate change.

4. Mexico drug gang hiring pretty hitwomen.

5. Bang ye, or "exposing grandfathers."

1. Quiz: "fertility drops by a factor of two" — across which North American border?

2. Andrew Gelman thinks I am cynical, yet I stand by my position (which he represents fairly).

3. How well is Estonia recovering?

4. How to fight corruption in Afghanistan, guaranteed to work.

5. Income inequality and the crisis?

6. It's about time I linked to Zombie ants.

7. Swimming across the lake?

1. China speech of the day.

2. Welcome to Lagos, BBC special now on YouTube.

3. How to crack down on illegal posters?  (Is it ethical?)

4. Very good defense of liberaltarianism.

5. Fat-fingered sumo wrestlers and what to do with them.

6. Obamacare threatens college health plans.

1. The world's biggest message: can you guess what it says?

2. Markets in everything, spanning edition, via Chris Hayes.

3. Markets in everything, edible guns strange pictures Hessische Kultur edition.

4. Five relatively ignored humanitarian crises.

5. Kindle books are much cheaper in the UK.

1. Markets in everything, media edition.

2. Ode to a development consultant (a poem).

3. Interactive textbooks on the iPad.

4. Who says there is an innovation crisis?

5. Do high rejection rates make journals more likely to be wrong?, via Chris F. Masse.

6. Indian agency fights yoga theft.

7. Is there a Flynn effect for memory?

1. Jacob Levy on Ernest Gellner.

2. A menu for our times.

3. Markets in everything: dating site which kicks out non-ugly people.

4. What if I were in charge? (NB: I am not telling you to click on this link)

5. Interfluidity on the Treasury meeting.

6. How are things going for Spain these days?

1. How Greek statues really looked, via Chris F. Masse.

2. Very important questions, from Robin Hanson; one of his best posts.

3. Old Russian (and other) photographs, from a century ago.

4. In which I am part of the problem.

5. Economist released from having to be the messiah (seriously).

1. Ed Pinto on the disasters of government mortgage policy.  Read it and weep.

2. A video on what makes Anacostia great.

3. Countries ranked, but is it by promiscuity or by honesty or by dishonesty?

4. Are Americans loners?, by Daniel Akst.

5. "That's not just a group of overlapping people…"

1. 19th century Germany had very little copyright law; via James Boyle here is a related Powerpoint.

2. Adam Posen offers a Keynesian interpretation of Japan's last few decades.

3. Who needs proofs?

4. Students prefer tattooed professors.

5. Robert Wright on Israel and Iran.