Category: Web/Tech

1. The role of missionaries in Haiti.

2. The new heroin business model: middle-class America.

3. The EU announces it has little trust in Greece, while failing to make credible threats.

4. Why are there so few Arab democracies?

5. Russell Jacoby reviews the new Thomas Sowell book very negatively.

6. More Canadians are lefties.

1. David Henderson reviews the new Thomas Sowell book.

2. Markets in everything: the lamp you are supposed to break, for $800.

3. Redesign Valentine's Day.

4. More on the optimistic scenario for Haiti.

5. South Korean robot performs in a play.

1. The NBA as the next Greece.

2. Do low self-esteem people dislike raises? (speculative)

3. Lying companies don't like the number "four."

4. The Greek economic contraction accelerates.

5. More wisdom from Garett Jones.

6. The plasma hand sanitizer.

1. El Bulli had been losing half a million Euros a year.

2. Rocco Landesman's new NEA.

3. The Science of Liberty.

4. Valentine's Day tips (not necessarily endorsed)

5. Is it easy to crack down on lobbyists?

1. Sausages as South Korean iPhone stylus (really).

2. Suspicions about efficiency in the workplace.

3. Nowhere to put Port-au-Prince excrement.

4. Teacher performance pay: a review.

5. Contra Lessig: campaign finance laws don't much influence public trust in government.

6. The Warcraft Civilization.

7. Of the wealthy nations, income is most heritable in Britain.

6. The implications of cloning Neanderthals.

7. Why is Latin America poor?

8. Via Chris F. Masse, Robin Hanson debate on futarchy.

9. The salaries of different central bankers.

10. Negative review of the new Thomas Sowell book.

11. Do fair elections signal dictatorial weakness?

1. Positional goods and Fred Hirsch, presented on TV, via RM.

2. Droplifting your paintings.

3. Thoughts on DSM-V.

4. The sign language of drivers.

5. Awards as a source of motivation.

1. Do easy women discourage innovation?

2. "She has even removed the Ph.D. from her résumé, with some pain, but she lives in dread that interviewers will ask what she has been doing for the last 12 years." — the link is here.

3. Regulating systemic risk: the real answer.

4. Men without work.

5. Divorcing while dying.

1. Which part of the brain is afraid of losing money?

2. Does polygamy limit AIDS risk?

3. Reread my post on cap-and-dividend; the idea is based on a trick.

4. Interview with Yoram Bauman.

5. Is the new global novel dull?

6. What to do with all that snow? (via Yana)

1. The Michelangelo Marriage?

2. Russ Roberts is eloquent on trade.

3. More funny stuff from Yoram Bauman.

4. GMU, Feb.16, I am speaking on Haiti.

5. Scott Sumner on the Great Depression, in a nutshell.

6. Immunity-on-demand?

7. Articles which communicate awe are most likely to be emailed.

1. Life in Sierra Leone.

2. Are more educated people more likely to own cats than dogs?

3. What will the supermarket look like after the blizzard?

4. ADHD people have "hyper-focus" (a flawed article, though).

5. Google voice transcriptions, formatted as poetry.

6. Does bicameralism matter?

1. One argument in favor of interruption.

2. Shanghai cracks down on pajamas.

3. Who can help the PIIGS?

4. Map of Europe's alcohol belts.

5. Rogoff: "Greece has been in default roughly one out of every two years since it first gained independence in the nineteenth century."

1. Clarence White fan argues for charter cities.

2. A Rose by Any Other Name.

3. How does Facebook make narcissism OK?

4. The benefits of moving marbles upward.

5. Angus on fiscal policy.

The first time I entered ChatRoulette–a new website that brings you face-to-face, via webcam, with an endless stream of random strangers all over the world–I was primed for a full-on Walt Whitman experience: an ecstatic surrender to the miraculous variety and abundance of humankind.

That's the premise, the actual story is at this link.  Here is one excerpt:

The first eighteen people who saw me disconnected immediately.

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