Results for “assorted links”

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1. Silly chess sets (supposedly artistic).

2. Compare different pianists playing Schubert.

3. Are gay rights winning in Uganda?

4. Alex Ross lecture on when you should applaud.

5. John Nye on the New Deal.

6. Virginia to return government spending to 2006 levels.

1. The national debt.

2. Can jazz ever be cool again?

3. State tax oddities.

4. "Conservatism, if it means anything, is a resistance to ideology and the world of ideas ideology represents, whether that ideology is a function of the left or the right."  More here.

1. Markets in everything.

2. U.S. Memory Championship.

3. The MIT symposium on sports economics.

4. Ethnic mixes and divorce rates.

5. The real risk of driving a Toyota.

6. Best post so far on game theory and the health care votes to come.

1. The culture that is Virginia.

2. How well do hand sanitizers work?

3. How to steal lots of shoes, in Korea.

4. Bohlen-Pierce music.

5. Swiss reject lawyers for animals.

6. Short memoir of Gene Fama.

1. Via Chris F. Masse, Al Roth in video and Paul Milgrom (unviewed, but self-recomending).

2. Vero responds on a VAT.

3. China's coolest man?

4. Does calling a wine organic lower its price?

5. Paths forward for the Google Books settlement.

6. Should you ignore evidence from people you don't trust?

1. A rant against Japan.

2. Why we are not living in Western civilization (video).

3. Tim Harford's tips for writing non-fiction; I agree.

4. Contrarian claims about performance enhancers in baseball; caveat emptor.

5. Bastiat and Say on fiscal stimulus (though I don't think they would favor ARRA as a whole).

1. Tremendomeatatarianism.

2. High-risk pools as a reform.

3. Recent account of Haiti, moving.

4. Myths about Russian demographics.

5. Have virtual worlds peaked?

6. Wisdom from William Galston (though I don't like the headline).

7. Trade associations in everything.

1. Incentives still matter on the supply side.

2. Just-as-good medicine.

3. Bruce Bartlett criticizes spending caps.

4. Why is there no Jewish Narnia?

5. Will Yao Ming's baby be American and is that a betrayal?

6. Why did economic models fail to predict the medal count in this year's Olympics?

7. Some rules for graduate students; I mostly agree.

8. Graphing "Cowen."

1. What Michael Lewis reads.

2. The U.S. Postal Service is not efficient.

3. How to improve chat roulette.

4. How much does debt matter?

5. Canadians don't give much to the arts.

6. Statistical time travel.

1. Translating Ulysses into Finnish.

2. Trinidad singer Edward Cumberbatch, now on YouTube.

3. Does Chile already have more looting than Haiti?

4. A test for religious open-mindedness.

5. I love Kottke, and this photo, but I would call the post "How genetics doesn't work."

1. Max Albert doesn't like Bayesian rationality.

2. Is it hard to give away free umbrellas?

3. The financial Turing test.

4. Measures of media bias.

5. Rules for growing a beard.

1. A second (!) profile of China Star and Peter Chang.

2. Do food taxes work better than food subsidies?

3. Debunking Mischel's marshmallow test.

4. Selling options on health care.

5. Is "cellar door" the most beautiful phrase in English?

6. How to survive a tsunami from a Chilean earthquake.

1. Pigeons master the Monty Hall dilemma.

2. Is internet censorship circumvention doomed to fail?  (An excellent post)

3. What you can learn from Victor Niederhoffer.

4. Was it important that Jimi Hendrix was left-handed? (summary here)

5. Why conservatives lost interest in a flat tax.

1. Rortybomb evaluates financial innovation.

2. Markets in everything: abandoned missile sites for sale.

3. Jamie Whyte: Would fewer voters make for better voters?

4. Haiti's top reconstruction official owns the country's only domestic source of ready-mixed concrete.

5. Markets in everything (the image is safe for work, though not the concept).