– If you’ve been as baffled by the seeming omnipotence of “Farmville” as I have, this essay makes things much clearer.
– Tyler Cowen’s column on the impending/continual budget doom is the best primer on the issue to date. It should, however, be read with Arnold Kling’s take on trust in government and spending cuts.
– College Media Matters finds an double entendre in the Quinnipiac Chronicle, but I personally think that this headline from the New York Times is much worse/funnier.
– A recent paper throws the entire theory supporting patents into question.
–”Epistemic closure is (in part) an attempt to compensate for the collapse of geographic closure.” Almost everyone should read more Julian Sanchez, and everyone should be cognizant of the risk of epistemic closure.
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