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Assorted links
1. Why OWS has a library and what that means.
2. Siri Singlish rival in Singapore, via Yana.
3. The disconnect of labor’s share and median wage from economic growth, across various countries (pdf).
4. Why does consciousness feel unified?
5. Denisovans, and discussion here.
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1. Luigi Zingales on the decline of meritocracy.
2. Blog on cocktail party economics.
3. Merkel calls for a minimum wage, and how the German post office is restructuring, and Italy is not multiple equilibria.
4. How the really desperate buy their automobiles, excellent story.
5. Hackers vs. Mexican drug cartel, who will win?
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1. De Gustibus (disgusting).
2. Jeff Sommer on Thomas Sargent, and Stephen Williamson on same.
3. Are memoirs about your child always narcissistic and problematic?
4. Why Siri is a bigger deal than you think.
5. Arnold Kling has a very good blog post explaining the importance of the new book The Race Against the Machine.
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1. Resolution of Fairfax legal case, hat tip Yana.
2. Resolution of New Hampshire legal case, or how to keep tenure.
3. Penelope Trunk Home School blog.
5. Can expectations be frustrated?, Interfluidity on NGDP targeting, and Scott Sumner’s response.
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1. How to give a speech, and arrange the giving of a speech, and much more.
This is one of the best “essays” I have read on any topic and it builds very nicely from apparently humble beginnings. For the pointer I thank someone on Twitter, my apologies for having lost track of whom.
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1. Dolphins have non-instrumental curiosity and orangutans have cultural transmission.
2. Phone storage trucks, markets in everything, also endangered species kakapo vomit remains.
3. Peter Chang update, including a feature film? Domestic mobility is way down, but still not for him.
4. They made me buy the new John Fahey box.
5. Peter Thiel’s latest project: independent entrepreneurial scientists.
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1. On the new EU deal, and here too, the Italian ten-year yield is down only a small amount.
2. On TGS, the excellent Edward Tenner.
3. Telemundo will start using some English subtitles and other smatterings of the language.
4. More on Italian small firms, and here is Henry’s post but I think Italian small firms have to do better than just OK, once you consider the volatility of different sectoral fates.
5. Observations about successful fiscal adjustments, and economics Haiku.
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1. I am impressed with Zite for iPad.
2. The growing problem of Greek debt, illustrated by Angela Merkel.
3. Jeff Miron says Greece should default.
4. Isaac Newton’s first paper, online. More here.
5. Apple granted patent on slide to unlock. Sigh.
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1. MIE: “Why not create a chrome trout?” From Courtney.
2. The problem of female labor supply in Italy.
3. Simon Dale’s Hobbit House in Wales.
4. Scaring tourists with a stick for 60k a year? And here is growing etrogs.
5. Walking robot requires no power sources, just give it a push (video).
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1. World power swings back to America.
2. Straussian claims about Plato, more here.
3. The Ken Jennings Watson talk, at the Singularity Summit, I enjoyed this very much.
4. The culture that is Fairfax.
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1. Dinosaur origami.
2. Concordance of Murakami reviews, Laura Miller here. You may recall I read a chunk of the book last year and quite liked it, I will resume with it when my copy arrives Tuesday.
3. My TGS talk at the Singularity Summit, some summaries and other talks here.
4. Disaggregating the PIIGS, it’s about competitiveness.
5. Markets in everything: “the Shalit shirt.”
6. Elyn Saks update.
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1. Physical bitcoins (!) (markets in everything, some are gold-plated)
2. Barter proceeds: (markets in everything) “An owner of dozens of wild animals who freed them before committing suicide this week was an avid gun collector who had traded weapons for a monkey, a leopard and a tiger cub, federal documents show.”
3. Might the Greek haircut reach 100 percent?
4. There is no Great Stagnation, “This report has really opened our eyes to the diverse uses of the bathroom.”
5. Dance your Ph.d., a nod to Stravinsky?
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2. What should go next to the produce, I think about this question a lot, and more info here. And Arnold Kling on the new Kahneman book, and Daniel Kahneman on the hazards of confidence, and David Brooks on the childhood of Kahneman.
3. Preferring to buy things from white people.
4. £250,000 prize for solving the problem of how to leave the eurozone, pdf is here.
5. Uh-oh (photo).
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2. Pete Rugolo, jazz composer and arranger, passes away at 95.
3. Tyler Cowen and Michael Vassar debate the Singularity. The Singularity Summit was an excellent meeting, by the way, I would go back and I am happy to recommend it to you all.
4. Thomas Scanlon on libertarianism.
5. Put me (again) on the ngdp bandwagon, it is time for a major media outlet to profile Scott Sumner, and how to complete the Kindle experience.
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1. Good article and video on self-driving cars.
2. Archetypal athletes (pdf), thanks to Michelle Dawson.
3. Will there be an E-Cat breakthrough?, with an honorary cite to Chris F. Masse, here is Wikipedia with more.
4. Turn any surface into a multi-touch interface.
5. Via Yana, visualized claims about taste buds.