Interesting stuff

  1. Read about the most dramatic art scam of the twentieth century
  2. Listen to the fascinating details of the Salman Rushdie’s blasphemy, and how it divided real from phoney “liberals” and “conservatives.”
  3. Listen to Jonathan Haidt argue (convincingly) for regulating social media for under 16s.
  4. Tally-Ho is going to sea! Watch.
  5. Fuck this: 36 percent [of young liberal academics] approve using violence, 57 percent approve blocking entry, and 77 percent think it’s okay to shout down some speakers.
  6. Doctors have a hard time with young people dying of cancer, the rate of which is increasing (!). Read more.
  7. A nice discussion of 20 years of blogging at Marginal Revolution.
  8. Listen to Kevin Kelly explain his important life lessons
  9. Time to plant? “Globally, annual food inflation rates could rise by up to 3.2 percentage points per year within the next decade or so as a result of higher temperatures” due to climate change.
  10. More danger means more push alerts, but will people stop paying attention as they become more common? Read more.

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Author: David Zetland

I'm a political-economist from California who now lives in Amsterdam.

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