Category: Web/Tech

1. A good point: "The central failure of these interviews, like so many, is that they operate from the proposition, "what would my readers find interesting?" instead of "what does my subject find interesting?"

2. Reason to worry about the second half of next year.

3. The Japanese sex-breakfast-mother-appreciation correlations.

4. How Victoria's Secret modifies a photo (excellent link, safe for work).

5. Photo sequences which are truly and deeply baffling to me.  And here is Tavi Gevinson, 13-year-old fashion maven.  

6. The evolution of empires; 1960 is the highlight.

7. Palindromic date puzzle.

1. Evidence for recalculation theories.

2. Markets in everything, "pour chiens."

3. Recessions breed future redistributionists.

4. On Twitter, crime_economist.

5. Twenty things that happen in one minute.

1. The high IQs of dyslexics.

2. What determines how well you keep resolutions?

3. Which are the most remote places on earth?  A map.

4. Non-reversing mirrors.

5. Markets in everything: chemotherapy cooking classes.

6. Was Jesus wealthy?

1. Recent work in Austrian economics.

2. 121-hour long lecture (with breaks), the longest ever?

3. Scott Sumner on movies, great post.

4. Is it possible that 225,000 Haitian children are slaves?  Read this too: "Researchers said the practice of young servants, known as 'restavek', is so common that almost half of 257 children interviewed in the shantytown of Cite Soleil were household slaves. The report found that most of the children are sent by parents, who cannot afford to care for them, to families just slightly better off."

5. More on the psychology of menu pricing.

6. Peter Singer and Bill Easterly on Bloggingheads.TV.

1. Best-selling authors of the decade (UK).

2. What are Californians getting for their state spending?

3. Young Ben Bernanke (photo).

4. Who really runs monetary policy these days?

5. Michael Mandel is blogging again.

6. Shifting the balance of power toward politicians.

1. Can a current Congress bind a future Congress?

2. Don't buy gift cards.

3. What's in the Guantanamo gift shop?

4. Are pets less "green" than Indians?

5. The best food books of the decade?

1. Kim Peek has passed away; here is a tribute.

2. David Brooks on Kling and Schulz.

3. Iceland VAT now at 25.5%.

4. A new model of the block universe.

5. A critique of the critique of The Phantom Menace.

1. Appreciative thinking, an underexplored virtue.

2. Markets in everything, wet nurse Baumol cost disease edition.

3. The transformation of Chile into a developed nation.

4. Proof that intercourse is special.

5. What do people steal from bookstores?

6. Dixit's appreciation of Paul Samuelson.

1. Nouriel Roubini on Latin America.

2. Not bad for a dining room table.

3. The largest American city without a bookstore.

4. Weaken super-priority for derivatives.

5. Are Louisiana and Hawaii the happiest states?

6. Interesting speculations on the flow of time and having fun.

7. The Na'vi language.

1. Zimbabwe now has deflation, and see this photo.

2. Markets in everything: divorce vouchers.

3. More on the new Patricia Highsmith bio.

4. The water poverty of the Altiplano.

5. Simmons and Gladwell, part III.

1. Interview with Matt Kahn on urban economics and American cities.

2. Single transferable vote for the Oscars.

3. Will Richard Posner send him to jail?

4. Japanese man marries virtual bride from dating game.

5. The Russ Roberts Keynes vs. Hayek rap video.

6. It's less painful to just rip the band-aid off than to pull it slowly.

1. Britain will give up on paper bank cheques [checks] altogether.

2. The new Hayao Miyazaki project.

3. The charcuterie resistance.

4. The constitutional crisis in Nigeria.

5. Betting markets in everything: Tiger and Elin's divorce settlement, plus who will sponsor Tiger next.

6. The Paul Samuelson Memorial investment tax credit.

7. Umbrellas of altruism: pay a premium and get them blunt.

1. Gelman criticizes Levitt on drunk driving; Jeff Ely chimes in here.

2. A new method for measuring earthquakes, tweets per minute.

3. Political souvenirs, from Italy.

4. Wavvves is my favorite popular music album this year, except it isn't popular.

5. Germans are happier if they earn less than their neighbors.

6. Peter Thiel's favorite thinker is Rene Girard.

7. Yegor Gaidar passes away at 53.

8. Policy communicators essay contest for $15,000.

1. Steve Levitt on driving drunk.

2. What English sounds like to foreigners.

3. What works in development?  Links to excellent essays.

4. In a world of micro-credit, moneylenders flourish.

5. Octupus snatches coconut and runs.