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Assorted links

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 filmDomestic 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.

Assorted links

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.

6. Good profile of David Graeber.

Assorted links

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.

Assorted links

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?

Assorted links

1. Quantum derivatives.

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).

Assorted links

1. Don’t blame Germany.

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.

6. “One of the things the baby grapples with is Hegel.”