Category: Web/Tech

1. Best post so far on interchange fees.

2. Is there a desire to expel extreme altruists from the group?

3. Medical care in Haiti: model for the USA?

4. Die young, live fast? (speculative)

5. The oversupply of larger homes, and zero marginal value homes?

6. The Amish population boom.

7. Which regions of the country buy which colors in clothes? (hints: the Midwest likes black and the Upper West Side of Manhattan dresses conservatively)

1. The case for Medicaid reform.

2. Markets in everything, how to describe this one?  And markets in assorted lies, with a price schedule.

3. "a sure loser…"

4. Origins of the Korean taco.

5. New blog on culture and cognition; recommended by Razib.

6. Comedy MVPs, by year.

7. How valuable are the weird?

1. Scott Sumner does Robin Hanson.

2. We're not getting much from Basel III.

3. Josh Barro on UI extensions and unemployment.

4. Theatrical productions for an audience of one.

1. Liberaltarian reader? (where are the liberal works?)

2. Voodoo in Haiti, sans economics.

3. Chris Blattman reviews Age of the Infovore (and other books).

4. The new, asymmetric journalism.

5. Strange views in physics.

6. The slow glide, the new Basel approach and here.

7. Do you trust the stimulus?

1. How smart is the octopus?

2. Science is like building a pier in the ocean.

3. Strange pages in Russian, supposedly about marketing.

4. Why does female education reduce fertility?, read also the comments.

5. In 1941, which was the largest airport in the world?

6. The deportation surge is real.

7. Did ramp-up stimulus work? The full data set.

1. "thank God the passengers can't see us now…"

2. Camera with an "aesthetics inference engine," tells you which pictures to take.

3. How to restructure the estate tax to limit distortions.

4. Correction: no blood in cricket book.

5. Arnold Kling summarizes the recalculation story.

6. One ATM services an entire continent.

1. Henry on Gellner.

2. Unlucky thief steals iPhone being used in GPS tracking tests.

3. Paul Romer on peeing in public.

4. Is Cow Clicker a money pump?

5. What Germans predicted in 1910.

6. "It's the best critique of street dance I've ever seen": the Amish visit London.

7. New Thomas Sargent paper on free banking.

1. Henry on Keynes and Germany (see also my comments further below).

2. Why isn't the suicide rate falling?

3. Why it is hard to tell if stimulus works, a superb essay by Mankiw.

4. An appreciation of the underappreciated Ernest Gellner (link fixed!).

5. Turning recovery from a brain injury into a multi-player game.

6. Do not click on this link.

7. America is not ripe for a conservative revolution.

1. Mongolia update, with lots of cool words.

2. www.underwhatconditions.com.

3. What drowning is really like.

4. "No baby in this bathwater."

5. The 1945-47 austerity and the watermelon pushcart.

1. Blog of MIT Professor Erik Brynjolfsson, a very smart guy.

2. Video of Conan Doyle, talking about Sherlock Holmes and supernaturalism.

3. Markets in everything: ice cream truck for dogs.

4. Driverless vehicles from Italy to China?

5. Will eating green really help the environment?

6. Natasha's Twitter feed.

7. What do most people argue about in the car?

8. What spending cuts are the British preparing?

9. DeLong on Rogoff (progress in dialogue).

1. Memorizing Milton.

2. Port problems are central to Haiti's mess.

3. Farm raids are rising.

4. MRIs on fruits and vegetables.

5. India markets in everything: Sachin's blood in a bottle.

6. Best description of a newspaper source, from Argentina.  And I've just added the blogger,Samuel Arbesman, to my RSS feed.

1. What happens to you when you buy green products?

2. How useful is Medicaid?

3. The "really bad" scenario.

4. Why is Germany so anti-China?

5. Swearing off doctors.

1. NYT covers Hamburg's HafenCity.

2. More, please.

3. Katja on cryonics and selfishness.

4. Massachusetts health care update.

5. Women's role in Holocaust may exceed old notions.

6. "Just hand over the cash," another good article by Drake Bennett.

1. Arthur Marget archive, on-line, lots there.

2. The Great Restructuring?

3. The board game that is German, by Tim Harford.

4. The culture that is Sweden, with good photos.

5. Via Kottke, this article isn't just about tennis.

1. Against ridicule.

2. Should you be allowed to know what's in your DNA?

3. A very good footnote.

4. Poop transplants.

5. Hail Bryan Caplan! (if only he meant it and in the meantime I beg that he be a Straussian).

6. Good post on sectoral shifts and required skill upgrades.