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1. A better approach to controlling Mexican drug violence.
2. The culture that is Japan; “The sole person in Japan who is not obliged to use honorifics, or rather, is prohibited from using them, is the emperor.”
3. David Frum on the welfare state.
4. The culture that is Mexico.
5. Edward O. Wilson changes his mind on altruism.
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1. What is the UK doing to spur growth?
2. NYT symposium on inequality.
3. Thresholds and military spending.
4. Obamacare update.
5. The culture that is Japan, baseball highlight reel.
6. Baggage-free travel, he forgot the Kindle and iPad.
7. Of Gods and Men and Even the Rain are two of the best movies I’ve seen in years.
8. Brookings Papers goes open access, including forty years of excellent archives.
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1. There is no great stagnation.
2. 88 percent of Bavarian doctors have prescribed placebos. The study (in German) is here.
3. The culture that is Japan language of decay.
4. "The search for mud is simple."
6. Why Mexican shark reunions are so amazing.
7. The culture that is Germany.
8. Will eBooks first take over in New Zealand?
9. Benjamin Barber on Libya and Qaddafi, his defense.
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1. In defense of reading James Joyce.
2. Luxury retailing booms while discount houses suffer.
4. The early history of publishing.
5. Small town pros (very interesting, and it's about sports).
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1. Geographic map of Dutch first names; more interesting than you might think.
2. Bob Cottrell's favorite research paper.
3. The culture that is Japan, robot officiates wedding and here.
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1. Steve Teles reviews Daniel Carpenter on the FDA.
2. Early views of Canada, a wonderful photo archive.
3. The culture that is Japan: dating by blood type.
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1. Not a bus allocation photo?
2. Economic themes in film, by Larry Moss.
4. Speculative look at dating and politics, caveat emptor.
5. Green Eggs and Ham in Jamaican patois.
6. Good piece on the influential books list going viral.
Lots of assorted links today, the world has been busy
1. What Brad DeLong really needs (hint: Peter Orszag already is getting it).
2. Claims about education and attention.
4. Problems with India's Green Revolution.
5. The well that never runs dry: the culture that is Japan, with a cameo by Gorbachev, who is being fed eels.
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1. Heterogeneous benefits from medical interventions, a new paper by William Evans and Craig Garthwaite.
2. Why your spleen is important.
3.The culture that is Japan: ramen robots.
4. A countercyclical asset, right in the restaurant itself.
The best two sentences I read this morning
Nemutan doesn't really have a leg. She's a stuffed pillowcase — a
2-D depiction of a character, Nemu, from an X-rated version of a PC
video game called Da Capo, printed on synthetic fabric.
The culture that is Japan. I thank Arpit Gupta for the pointer.
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1. Can the lottery help people save more?
2. The new economics of YouTube.
4. Will California adopt pay-as-you-drive insurance?
5. Milton Friedman: what is greed?
6. The culture that is Japanese: virtual restaurants.
7. Uh-oh. Or is it good news?