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1. The CDC explains how to prepare for a Zombie apocalypse.  Yes really, the CDC.

2. The Business of Bounty Hunting on Freakonomics radio, includes yours truly and legendary bounty hunter Bob Burton. It’s always interesting to me to hear how easy the professionals Dubner and Ryssdal make excellent radio sound.

3. Matt Yglesias warns (?) us about the Rise of the Robot Proletariat. Is this the beginning?

4. Who Killed Autopsies?

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1. One way of measuring structural shifts.

2. The culture that is German, they sold condoms in the Bundestag (in German), though now no more.

3. Debt ceiling games throughout the ages.

4. Coverage from Guinea (in French); the maid is described as a nice person.  And “His most recent book, Left in Dark Times: A Stand Against the New Barbarism, discusses political and cultural affairs as an ongoing battle against the inhumane.” The Germans give the most detail.

5. The inefficiency of urban sorting?

6. Lengthy 2005 interview with Milton Friedman at 93 (Charlie Rose).  Fascinating.

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1. In defense of flogging by Peter Moskos. I was pretty sure I wrote something like this a few years ago but after a search all I could find was this post on sex and spanking.

2. Google lobbies Nevada to allow Self-Driving Cars. The future isn’t here until suddenly it is. FYI, texting while in the “driver’s” seat would be made legal in such cars.

3. Used car prices are rising so much that many models are selling for more today than a year ago.

4. Conor Friedersdorf’s Nearly 100 Fantastic Pieces of Journalism.

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1. Žižek defends communism.

2. Public choice take on the Der Spiegel story on Greece possibly leaving the eurozone.

3. Markets in everything: “A Sicilian social movement is organizing trips that patronize only businesses that do not pay protection money to the Mafia.” (1/20)  Higher chance of arson, for one thing.

4. Good overview on the euro.

5. Seatbelts and offsetting behavior, a counter-revisionist view.