Ann Althouse on the Netherlands’ (possibly) failed experiment
More Richard Thaler healthcare ideas
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A week’s worth of links VIII
A week’s worth of links VII
Another week, another list of things I’ve read online that are worth saving for future reference. But really, it’s mid-February and I still haven’t finished one book this year. So I need to put the PC down and pick up the Kindle.
I’m a sucker for thoughtful NCAA takedowns
The silliness of American gambling laws
High school reading assignments
“High-quality revenue has three main characteristics: predictability, profitability and diversity.”
Fascinating piece on Tom Wolfe (h/t Conor Friedersdorf)
The Lumina immortalized on Google Maps
The army’s troop leading procedures
“The only alternative is to humanize our work.”
Apparently, there is a rivalry between Sydney and Melbourne (h/t Tyler Cowen)
A week’s worth of links VI
OK, I’m done with the long intros. Here are some items I’ve bookmarked over the last 7 days:
Megan McArdle’s comment section on underrated cities
(Busy week that did not include much online reading.)
A week’s worth of links V
OK, I’m done with the long intros. Here are some items I’ve bookmarked over the last 7 days:
“Until the early 20th century, plea-bargaining was widely considered corrupt.”
Condor Friedersdorf on the 2nd amendment (and the 4th and the 5th and the 6th) (h/t Jon Fasman)
“Cats Are Evil” (h/t Farhad Manjoo)
The federal governments oil and natural gas resources may be worth 8 times the national debt
“Frequently, when I travel outside of the USA, my trips to the local McDonald’s are the most genuinely foreign-feeling and disorienting part of the trip.” (h/t Conor Friedersdorf)
Althouse on Republicans on immigration
Pain in the NFL (h/t Ben Walsh)
Advancements in the diagnosis of CTE and the future of football
Duh, I watch Love It Or List It
Climate change: the shift from reversing/preventing to adapting
Sports whose participants have the highest likelihood of truly being “the best at what they do”
“Where are the Bicycles in Post-Apocalyptic Fiction?”
I think that was enough, but just for the fun of it, here’s one that’s been on my unread items for six weeks that I finally got to:
A week’s worth of links IV
Similar to me posting a weekly summary of asides here, I’m doing the same for links. There may be some overlap between my links summaries and asides summaries, and I am OK with this. Also, just because I’m posting these now, doesn’t mean that they are new. It just means I read them over the last seven days. Some could be old, but so what? They’re still good.
Singular “they” (a concept I fully endorse)
Sports channels are the most expensive on cable systems
“How much value does the finance industry create?”
M.I.T.’s role in the Aaron Swartz tragedy (h/t Ann Althouse)
Now that I’m posting the weekly recaps of links I’ve bookmarked on Pinboard, I figured I’d take a look at what I had marked unread. And much like buying one of my favorite movies on DVD was a surefire way to guarantee that I never watched it again, saving unread bookmarks has proven to be a pretty effective way of keeping a list of things I am never going to read. So I’m going to change that. Each week I’ll take a look at a handful of my unread bookmarks. The ones I ended up saving this week are listed below. Now I guess it’s time to dust off my copy of Almost Famous on DVD.
Tax-managed mutual funds (I won’t apologize for saving the occasional very dry article on some personal finance topic)
A week’s worth of links III
Similar to me posting a weekly summary of asides here, I’m doing the same for links. There may be some overlap between my links summaries and asides summaries, and I am OK with this. Also, just because I’m posting these now, doesn’t mean that they are new. It just means I read them over the last seven days. Some could be old, but so what? They’re still good.
“The Fallacy of the Baseball Hall of Fame”
Seth Godin on taking initiative
Megan McArdle says don’t get an MBA
Student-athletes and the higher education bubble (h/t Tyler Cowen)
Aaron Swartz’s post on his struggles with depression from 2007
When economists agree, the rest of don’t agree with them
“Boys stink at school and it doesn’t even matter” (h/t Stephen Hicks)
Cool picture of Chicago (h/t Radley Balko)
How you know something is important
Growth via less sleep? (h/t Tyler Cowen)
Now that I’m posting the weekly recaps of links I’ve bookmarked on Pinboard, I figured I’d take a look at what I had marked unread. And much like buying one of my favorite movies on DVD was a surefire way to guarantee that I never watched it again, saving unread bookmarks has proven to be a pretty effective way of keeping a list of things I am never going to read. So I’m going to change that. Each week I’ll take a look at a handful of my unread bookmarks. The ones I ended up saving this week are listed below. Now I guess it’s time to dust off my copy of Almost Famous on DVD.
Could deinstiutionalization of the mentally ill be causing the uptick in mass shootings?
Video of Scott Sumner on how to prevent the next financial crisis
This time it is a week’s worth of links
Similar to me posting a weekly summary of asides here, I’m doing the same for links. There may be some overlap between my links summaries and asides summaries, and I am OK with this. I’ve actually remembered some hat tips this time, so that’s nice. Also, just because I’m posting these now, doesn’t mean that they are new. It just means I read them over the last seven days. Some could be old, but so what? They’re still good.
Do electronic devices on planes cause any harm? (h/t Ann Althouse)
Scott Sumner on the fiscal cliff bargain
Teens’ opinions on social media (h/t Tyler Cowen)
Fiscal cliff deal is done…what’s next?
“At every age we think we’re having the last laugh, and at every age we’re wrong.” (h/t Tyler Cowen)
Asking good questions for career success
List of world’s largest subway systems
“Make more decisions. That’s the only way to get better at it.”
“Have We Lost the War on Drugs?” (h/t Tyler Cowen)
As someone constantly in search for deposits into my not-having-an-MBA rationalization bank, I’m a sucker for these headlines. (h/t Felix Salmon)
A little more than a week’s worth of links
Similar to me posting a weekly summary of asides here, I think I’ll do the same for links. However, since I’ve been spending most of my time off this past week and a half yelling at spending time with my kids doing all things Christmas and not reading online/bookmarking links, I may cheat this first time and go back a little more than a week. There may be some overlap between my links summaries and asides summaries, and I am OK with this. As I do this, I realize I don’t record hat tips on my Pinboard, but if I am going to publish a weekly link summary like this, I probably should include them. I know some hat tips are deserved for the below links, so going forward (as in, after this post) I will do my best.
Jerry Seinfeld talks about writing a joke
Lesson learned from David Rakoff
List of airport etiquette tips
“How Not To Vote For The Baseball Hall Of Fame, In Three Easy Steps”
The state of dance music and dancing to said dance music
“There’s Little We Can Do to Prevent Another Massacre”
A depressingly realistic analysis of weight loss
The View from Loveland (*) 