Results for “assorted links”

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1. Shapin reviews Monk on Oppenheimer.

2. The original Twinkie had banana filling, until WWII rationing.

3. Wikipedia on Gaza Strip, and a Stratfor analysis of Gaza, and a Foreign Affairs piece.

4. What do animals want?, and monkeys want to ride on capybara.

5. Can the unconscious mind solve math problems?

1. Estimated implicit marginal tax rates for the poor and middle class.

2. The new James Bond movie used a 3-D printer to assemble demolishable copies of Bond’s Aston Martin.

3. Duke and other schools to offer on-line courses for credit.

4. Alarm clock won’t turn off until you dance.

5. Ten possible world-changing ideas?

6. EdX announces proctored exam testing.

1. Western Oklahoma markets in everything; “In other classes, students who don’t pass an exam the first time are allowed to try again. And none of the exams in the two-week format are monitored.”

2. The book marketing campaign of Tim Ferriss.

3. Twitter as weapon.

4. More on the Medicaid wars, a high stakes game of chicken.

5. The culture that is living in guilt in Paraguay.

6. The Manzi list.

1. Why don’t Japanese toilets spread to the U.S.?

2. How many states will refuse the Medicaid expansion?  Possibly a whole bunch.

3. Is Supersymmetry ailing?

4. Tax hikes vs. spending cuts, and citing this old Blanchard and Perotti piece (pdf).

5. Ways in which money still matters in campaigns.

6. Is Bipolar Disorder being overdiagnosed?

1. The gorilla is not the only thing you miss.

2. Small steps toward a much better world.

3. The new Cass Sunstein book on the way: “Simpler: The Future of Government.”

4. There is no great stagnation (photo only), this one is worth more.

5. Thomas Schelling and the computer.

1. “Andrew Solomon is a lumper.”

2. Just apply the usual stacked blog post title to this one, and more here.

3. Interview with Malcolm Gladwell.

4. Horse nationalism is defeated — for now.

5. Some of the academics behind the Obama campaign.

6. You would think the anti-virus software was enough for one lifetime.

1. Interview with Daniel Tammet.

2. Blueberry Cheesecake Kit Kat Oyatsu Break!  The full blog, one Canadian man studying Japanese snack food, is here.

3. How not to give a gift to the President of the United States, Homeland edition.

4. Danish molecular gastronomy set to revolutionize Bolivia?  And The Day of the Skulls in Bolivia (good photos).

5. The anatomy of the fiscal cliff.

6. Brazilian dog markets in everything.

1. Planet Money link on Honduran charter city programs.

2. Asia’s Great Moderation.

3. The central tension of the GOP coalition.

4. DIY satellite platforms.

5. Your first name is not as special as you think.  (When I was a kid the only other “Tyler” was Henry Kissinger’s dog, or so I had thought; now it is quite common as a name.)

6. Taleb on Pinker and peace, and Pinker’s response.

7. Litterman interviews Eugene Fama, who still deserves a Nobel Prize.

1. The Martha Stewart financial empire.

2. Nick’s overly generous thoughts on MRU.

3. Do any of us care about privacy?  A search engine that doesn’t track you.

4. Simon Wren-Lewis response on multiplier and zero lower bound literature.

5. On the new Ray Monk biography of Robert Oppenheimer.

1. New results on savings behavior and the very poor.

2. New My Bloody Valentine CD to come.

3. Megan McArdle on whether the GOP can overcome demographic hurdles, and sanity from Kevin Drum.

4. Free archive of 1920s jazz.

5. How Top Chef tricks you.

6. Overview of what is going on with Chinese regime change.

1. Nash equilibrium and NBA player size.

2. Cockatoo can make its own tools.

3. Felix Salmon on the FT in play.

4. An appraisal of Elliott Carter; if you don’t know his work, he was an extremely impressive creator, producing gems past the age of 100.

5. Our hearts grow smarter.

6. Discussion of Chomsky and statistical learning in linguistics.

1. Is the romantic view more true for the weird?

2. Elliott Carter passes away at 103; here is my favorite Carter CD.

3. Miles Kimball refines the “abolish currency” proposal.

4. More on the GMU expansion to Songdo, South Korea.

5. How the Japanese cut cucumbers (video).

6. Gas for sex price controls don’t work markets in everything.

7. A loyal MR reader writes to me: “You may have seen he updated his profile: This very OKCupid profile has been linked from Marginal Revolution (one of the most popular econblogs). I swear I am not making this up.”  Link here.

8. Will top economists be swapped in Catalonia?  Here is the latest rumor (in Spanish).

1. Favorite books of John van Reenan.

2. An OK Cupid profilee of a rationalist.

3. Markets in everything.

4. The ongoing commercialization of Mecca.

5. The cardboard wheelchair, and did the Portuguese reach Australia in the 16th century?

6. The Goethe auction.

7. Glowing roads in the Netherlands.

1. GMO labeling and rent-seeking.

2. On-line education to become an Orthodox rabbi.

3. What do you see when you look out the NYC-D.C. Amtrak window?

4. This guy wants to minimize the number of incumbents, as a way of jumping off his indifference curve.

5. Scientific psychological study of the NYT paywall.

6. Are asteroid belts part of The Great Filter?

1. How fast are driverless cars on the race track?

2. The Vatican newspaper runs five articles about the new James Bond film.

3. Renders the Taco-Copter totally obsolete.

4. BusinessWeek profile of Scott Sumner.

5. Biafra was also not a good idea.

6. Acemoglu and Robinson respond to Subramanian, and good Flickr photostream of North Korea, and is this guy, a possible defector from the West, tweeting from North Korea?