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1. Is the romantic view more true for the weird?

2. Elliott Carter passes away at 103; here is my favorite Carter CD.

3. Miles Kimball refines the “abolish currency” proposal.

4. More on the GMU expansion to Songdo, South Korea.

5. How the Japanese cut cucumbers (video).

6. Gas for sex price controls don’t work markets in everything.

7. A loyal MR reader writes to me: “You may have seen he updated his profile: This very OKCupid profile has been linked from Marginal Revolution (one of the most popular econblogs). I swear I am not making this up.”  Link here.

8. Will top economists be swapped in Catalonia?  Here is the latest rumor (in Spanish).

1. Favorite books of John van Reenan.

2. An OK Cupid profilee of a rationalist.

3. Markets in everything.

4. The ongoing commercialization of Mecca.

5. The cardboard wheelchair, and did the Portuguese reach Australia in the 16th century?

6. The Goethe auction.

7. Glowing roads in the Netherlands.

1. GMO labeling and rent-seeking.

2. On-line education to become an Orthodox rabbi.

3. What do you see when you look out the NYC-D.C. Amtrak window?

4. This guy wants to minimize the number of incumbents, as a way of jumping off his indifference curve.

5. Scientific psychological study of the NYT paywall.

6. Are asteroid belts part of The Great Filter?

1. How fast are driverless cars on the race track?

2. The Vatican newspaper runs five articles about the new James Bond film.

3. Renders the Taco-Copter totally obsolete.

4. BusinessWeek profile of Scott Sumner.

5. Biafra was also not a good idea.

6. Acemoglu and Robinson respond to Subramanian, and good Flickr photostream of North Korea, and is this guy, a possible defector from the West, tweeting from North Korea?

1. The pulled report on taxes and the economy.

2. There is no great stagnation: texting while skiing.

3. Some economics articles on natural disasters.

4. Does this elephant speak Korean?  Another story here, and video here.

1. Impatient idealism.

2. The new placebo hospitals?

3. Discussion of Proposition 35, from California, on settling the penalties for child trafficking.

4. GMU to launch a South Korean campus.

5. What is the opposite of “utensil”, or “cat”?

1. ECB document on virtual currency schemes (pdf).

2. Is this the most brilliant computer vs. computer chess game ever?  It is so brilliant you might not even be thrilled by it.  That’s your fault.

3. China lawsuit of the day.

4. How dangerous is dental floss?  Waxed or unwaxed?  And, as Peter Thiel suggests, have we lost the ability to solve big problems?

5. Subramanian reviews Acemoglu and Robinson.

6. Is it my imagination, or is Mitt getting in a few Straussian pokes at Catholicism here?  And Wonkblog does up a Romney tax calculator.

1. Science is the key to growth.

2. Roberto Unger criticizes Keynesianism.

3. Are psychopaths physically attractive?

4. Are economists ignoring neuroeconomics?

5. How permanent is the rise in risk premia?  And a combinatorial prediction market for the election and related matters.

6. Thwarted India and China markets in everything, Siri edition.

1. The world’s first commercial vertical farm opens in Singapore.

2. What is sort of an excerpt from the next Charles Mann book.

3. Are “green buildings” really that green?  Or is it just more welfare for the real estate sector?

4. Hans Werner Henze passes away at 86.

5. Is sculpture left abandoned in a digital world?

6. The life of an on-line poker player, and on Howard Raiffa.

1. Horse nationalism stalls gains from trade once again.

2. The great air stagnation.

3. Do blondes get special treatment?

1. Le blog de Jean Paul Sartre.

2. Good review of the new Camille Paglia.

3. How much of economic stagnation is due to the Midwest?

4. What does the great stagnation look like for journalists?

5. What do animals think of their dead?

1. Update on the Medicaid wars: Medicaid spending is slowing, and more here, much of it is from falling reimbursement rates.

2. Upgrading the lowly button.

3. Krugman’s Asimov introduction (pdf).

4. What moderation means, by David Brooks.

5. Thai face-slapping markets in everything.

6. Chris Dillow on the deserving vs. undeserving poor.

1. Going back a bit in time, prior approval, a scary doctrine.

2. Profile of Tax Policy Center.

3. Colorblind casting in Cloud Atlas.

4. At least two people are overpaying markets in everything.

5. The commercialization of Mecca, and which airline routes are growing and shrinking most rapidly.

6. Gelman on Cowen and Grier and sports and politics.

1. Broken windows in Afghanistan.

2. Imaginary markets in everything.

3. Karl Smith responds to Scott Sumner on fiscal policy, Scott responds in turn, and good Amir Sufi slides on monetary policy and why it may not be so powerful.

4. The adaptive house.

5. Cass Sunstein on how to fix the mistakes of the impatient.  (Is he at this point a Bloomberg columnist?)

6. Academics are moving further to the left.

1. Scott Sumner on what is wrong with the UK.

2. How driverless cars might transform the broader economy.

3. A whale with a human-like voice?, and more here, and the paper is here.

4. “Ancient” sculptures made by a 3-D printer.

5. Ruchir Sharma on broken BRICS.

6. Krugman’s best piece on fiscal stimulus, I agree almost 100%.