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1. Is unilateral action on greenhouse gases justified?

2. When will Siri become good?

3. Sperm whales adopt deformed dolphin.

4. How false are published medical results?  (read the comments too)

5. Using robots in hospitals.

6. A truly excellent resume.

1. What the Europeans will be funding in science?

2. The agricultural revolution for dogs, and should cats be eliminated from New Zealand?

3. Boudreaux and Perry on whether there is middle class stagnation.

4. The periodic table of Twitter.

5. DNA bullets.

6. Japanese ramen bowl with a built-in iPhone dock.

7. The case for eliminating the federal gas tax.

1. Belief in the great stagnation is the new normal.

2. The brutality of English leisure gardeners.

3. Are too many people photographing their meals?  And can you surreptitiously film inside Disney World?

4. Is the (published) claim that most published results are wrong itself…wrong?

5. Is the Zara guy the third richest man in the world?  On average they open a new store every day.

6. Why Cameron’s referendum talk doesn’t make much sense.

1. Russ Roberts speaks with Kevin Kelly.

2. Fuchsia Dunlop has a blog.

3. There is no great stagnation (moisturizing jeans).

4. Scott Sumner explains his views on price inflation.  And here is Arnold Kling on the Greek Phillips Curve.

5. More on whether there is a new Icelandic housing bubble.

6. Goodhart, Baker, and Ashworth on nominal gdp targeting.

7. Error, retraction, second thoughts, translation mistake or what, George Church issues a further statement.

1. Where in the store should you place the condoms?

2. Paul Krugman on inequality and recovery and Stiglitz.

3. Are all prices in Norway this high?

4. Tim Duy on inflation in Greece, but sorry falling inflation of a few scant percentage points doesn’t do the trick, nor does the 1% deflation which finally arrives at the end of the energy-subtracted series.  For a simple point of comparison, the rate of U.S. price deflation in 1932 was greater than ten percent with overall deflation running at about twenty-five percent over a period of a few years.  More recently, Japan had nine straight years of core CPI deflation and Greece cannot even manage anything close to that.  Just what is the Greek Phillips Curve supposed to look like?

5. Where Chinese growth is coming from.

6. Shruti R. on James Buchanan.

7. Fake economist fools Portugal (for a while).

1. Chinese “gutter oil”.

2. China opens a 3D printing museum.

3. Contracts in The Hobbit.

4. I Have a Dream.

5. My theory is that this person complains a lot.

6. Wilson Schmidt’s granddaughter blogs North Korea.

1. Via Chris F. Masse, paying customers to read your book.

2. Stealth wear.

3. The culture that is Dutch.

4. Matt Yglesias on China.

5. Why is NBA scoring now less concentrated?

6. Billie Holiday on occupational licensing.

7. Review of a Texas middle school economics textbook (possibly unreliable).

8. Good Bhagwati interview on the Indian economy.

1. The war on Chinglish.

2. When male CEOs have kids, employees make less money (speculative).

3. Claims about religion and the great stagnation.

4. Martin Ford on Paul Krugman on robots (I think the post is mistitled by the way).

5. Is this a new golden age for American opera?

6. What gets funded on Kickstarter?

1. Is on-line dating a science?

2. Living the arbitrage. and more here.

3. Which UK students have benefited the most from tuition fee revenue?  And Pinker on lead and crime (pdf).

4. The value of Scrabble tiles as determined by auction, and more here.

5. Apply for Mercatus Master’s fellowships here.

6. How much of an advance would open access journals be?  Excellent FT piece by John Gapper.  And Orin Kerr on the Aaron Swartz case.

1. The foolproof sector.

2. Why everyone films at the same NYC Chinese restaurant.

3. Close interpersonal relationships in amnesic patients.

4. Irish beef products have more horse DNA than you might be expecting.

5. Ionarts classical CD recommendations.

6. Tim Harford has a new radio series (self-recommending).

1. Economic freedom rankings for the states of India (pdf, and revised link here).

2. My interview with Yale School of Management on cultural globalization.

3. Do chimpanzees actually care about fairness?

4. The David Brooks syllabus on humility, for his course at Yale.

5. Do guns protect us from tyrannical government?

6. Will the end of sleep push down wages?  (By the way, does sleep make it easier to save?)

1. Is sleep reduction the new low-hanging fruit?

2. Appreciation of Julio Cortázar.

3. What constitutes evidence of cheating?  And more here.

4. What do the numbers from Japan show?

1. The culture that is Sweden (a screaming video).

2. Iranian markets in everything, Ayatollah air freshener edition.

3. The Japanese Kobe beef pizza for $66, by Domino’s by the way.

4. Kevin Drum responds to Jim Manzi on lead and crime.

5. Trudie’s advice to would-be economists (old MR post).

6. Is this for real?  Does WalMart really carry this?

1. Can we ever do better than the toilet?

2. Profile of Joshua Angrist.

3. Ezra Klein post on the platinum coin.

4. Infidelity phones.

5. Killer whale video.

6. David Brooks reviews Jared Diamond.

7. The nature of Japanese fiscal stimulus.

1. There is no great stagnation, toddler edition.

2. Michael Gibson is now blogging at Forbes, including on education and tech stagnation.

3. By Philip Wallach, what really to do about the debt ceiling.

4. Wade Davis reviews Jared Diamond.

5. Analysis of Lindsay Lohan.

6. Long and very good Economist piece on whether there is a great stagnation in technology.

7. Jim Manzi on lead and crime.