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1. Iris-scanning in the fight against Indian poverty.

2. Amazing Kreskin offers to fix the fiscal cliff.

3. An Edge talk with Philip Tetlock, and pre-registration for the forecasting website.  Forecasters are needed for his very important project.

4. David Warsh on Shapley and other stuff.

5. Some catfish kill pigeons, and how good were cavemen as animal artists?

1. The economics of crossword puzzles.

2. More Krugman on Asimov, and Robin Hanson gets one part of his dream come true on combinatorial prediction markets.

3. Good Josh Hendrickson post on fiscal policy.

4. How many Americans view the Gaza conflict.

5. Text messages direct to your contact lens.

6. The rise of the underground restaurant.

1. We should support rights for the Great Apes.

2. Good Greg Ip remarks on journalism and economics.

3. The cobra effect, and modern Florida and generalized.

4. Excerpts from an interview with me.

5. There is no great stagnation, soap bar edition.

6. Philip Tetlock update.

1. Profile of James C. Scott, including on anarchism but not just.

2. Sex in cheese.

3. Camille Paglia, on women she does and does not like.

4. Has government funding of science become too conservative?

5. Which sector, other than punditry, is benefiting from the “fiscal cliff” chatter?

6. The Economist picks books of the year.

1. Garett Jones and the role of Fannie and Freddie.

2. The Bloomberg best books of the year list.

3. Rogoff comments on the stagnationists, and are we running out of phosphate reserves?

4, MIE: precious friends become precious gems.

5. Christmas video about macro, will offend some of you.  Worth a view in any case!  By John Popola, and it considers Malthus on aggregate demand.

6. Outcompeting the driverless car (does the theory of comparative advantage apply to dogs?), caveat emptor.

7. Cass Sunstein is now on Twitter.

1. Legal precedents for charter cities?

2. Edward Conard on Warren Buffett.

3. Venkatesh responds to the NYT.

4. The Memory Palace works in virtual environments.

5. Take a trampoline in to your workplace (there is no great stagnation).

6. Some good photos from 2012.

1. Ted Gioia’s 100 favorite albums of 2012, excellent list.

2. Portrait of Maria Popova, appreciator (a real word of praise), and in her spirit credit card prototype up for auction.

3. John Adams reviews Camille Paglia, too harsh but “cross-star” reviews are often interesting (and often too harsh).

4. The war against music in northern Mali.

5. Big spider eats two birds (video).

6. Sundry observations from Scott Sumner.

1. Excellent review of Goldacre’s Bad Pharma, and much Ben Goldacre in the MR comments section here, and many excellent points raised by others too.

2. Robert Mundell helped start the Pearl Spring Chess Tournament.

3. Good review of Rushdie, and portrait of Sudhir Venkatesh, and my earlier review of his work.  Lots in those portraits.

4. Insights into Chinese typewriters (interesting).

5. The simulated brain.

1. What is it like to shop in a “Made in America” store?

2. Neurologist charged with insider trading.

3. How well can algorithms predict the quality of your recipes?

4. The culture that was Japan.

5. Atlantic picks best books of the year, New Statesman does the same.

1. Eagleton reviews the new Derrida biography.

2. The economics of France in the 1920s.

3. Photos of Chinese architecture (recommended), and a new study of overinvestment in China, and Fuchsia Dunlop on Chinese food.

4. Peter Leeson on the economics of human sacrifice, a rational choice approach.

5. Sraffa’s notes on Wittgenstein’s “Blue Book.”

1. The net price myth will not save the sustainability of higher education.

2. Purely defensive technological innovation, for cows.

3. Chris Blattman’s African development exam.

4. Will the “buy a home, get a visa” idea spread?

5. Mistakes people make in buying Christmas gifts, by Cass Sunstein.  And good summary of what the Greek deal consists of.

6. Fun but somewhat off story on Krugman and Germany, too many overgeneralizations about German psychology, caveat emptor.

1. Photo.

2. Which are the most and least emotional countries? (speculative)

3. Englishman beats the Scots at World Porridge Championship (not speculative), and from the Wilt Chamberlain archive.

4. Should we kill the 401(k)?  And the carry cost of pennies (brilliant).

5. Interview with Robert Lucas.

6. The consequences of word nationalism for the OED.

1. Taxes and cliffs, excellent post by John Cochrane.

2. Arnold Kling’s book picks (at his new blog!)

3. An argument for the double marginalization of alcohol supply.

4. The future of education, especially the non-on-line part?

5. The new NYT blog on fiscal affairs, and are you more logical about money when speaking a foreign language?

1. Brad DeLong has a question about ACA, and DeLong on Cowen on Nagel, and here Plantinga reviews Nagel.

2. Authors choose their favorite books of the year, from The Guardian.

3. Some reasons why celebrities and start-ups should not trade.

4. Ross Douthat wants to find a way to abolish the payroll tax.

5. EconGirl on Michael Sandel.

6. How are cell phones reshaping Indian prostitution and the fight against AIDS?

1. There is no great stagnation, cereal edition.

2. 72-year-old man models teen girl clothes.

3. How high should the marginal tax rate be?  Criticism of the 70%-plus proposals.

4. States and counties are not persons.

5. How to make Taleb stronger, and stronger yet.  I have canceled my pre-order.

6. Scott Sumner on Singapore.