- The trouble with OCLC
- Bathtub dynamics
- “The New York Times is the problem.” Interview with Nassim Taleb
- Easy-to-read free substantial book on authoritarianism
Thanks to Dave Lull.
Assorted Links
1. Talk about self-experimentation by Lawrence Altman
2. A new book celebrates fat.
3. The Kitava Study. Cardiovascular risk factors on Kitava.
4. A scary Google Talk by Nena Baker, author of The Body Toxic, about food and plastic.
Thanks to Pietr Hitzig and Dave Lull.
Assorted Links
- High cholesterol and heart disease — myth or truth?
- Self-experimentation on mood
- Email interview with me about the Shangri-La Diet in Portuguese and English
- Do what you love getting good at
- Things to hate about Singapore
Thanks to Dave Lull and Patri Friedman.
Assorted Links
- The most trendy restaurant in America — which might be a good thing.
- Precognition from Kurt Andersen: “Expect . . . years to pass with no posts.”
- Leonard Mlodinow talks at Google.
- Intermittent Fasting, the blog.
- Escaping the Amish, a fascinating interview by Tim Ferriss.
- What your stuff says about you: Google talk by Sam Gosling.
Thanks to Michael Bowerman.
Assorted Links
- One of Entertainment Weekly’s most Spy-like articles: So You Want To Write A Memoir
- Genesis in lolspeak, part of the Lolcat Bible Translation Project.
- A riveting EconTalk interview about buying a new car.
- Speaking of cars, the hidden meaning of bumper stickers.
Thanks to Joyce Cohen and Robin Hanson.
Assorted Links
1. Bruce Bawer on the Up Series.
2. Gary Taubes interview: Part 1
3. Problems with public libraries.
4. Armand Hammer, one of the greatest con men of the 20th Century, almost won a Nobel Prize. Came in 2nd to the Dalai Lama. Watch the Charlie Rose interview with Edward Jay Epstein in 1996.
5. Nassim Taleb’s contingency fund.
Thanks to Dave Lull.
Assorted Links
- Amory Lovins lecture series. 5 lectures, each about 1.5 hr. New Yorker profile of Lovins.
- Unexpected effects of a low-carb diet by Gary Taubes.
- Beware diet sodas?
Thanks to Dave Lull and Brett Johnson.
Assorted Links
1. LSD, My Problem Child by Albert Hoffman (full book).
2. High-powered editing (scroll down to the Karp letter).
3. Plow the Deep: terrific but rejected title for William Bernstein‘s new history of trade. Excellent EconTalk podcast.
4. Speaking of editing, proofreading fiasco.
Assorted Links
- Why Word has an animated paperclip. For more on this, see the excellent Who Really Matters: The Core Group Theory of Power, Prestige, and Success by Art Kleiner.
- Does sugar make it harder to fight off microbes?
- Practical memory training.
- Interview with Leonard Mlodinow, author of Feynman’s Rainbow and the soon-to-be-published The Drunkard’s Walk: How Randomness Rules Our Lives.
Thanks to Dave Lull and Peter Spero.
Assorted Links
- Nassim Taleb‘s current research.
- Against the Socratic Method of teaching. Thanks to Dave Lull.
- Interesting experiment in cookie making.
- The New Yorker wants to profile Michelle Malkin. Malkin refuses to cooperate.
Assorted Links
1. Gary Taubes on sleep deprivation and the obesity epidemic.
2. Jane Jacobs on nature and economics (quotes).
3. Long excellent post on entrepreneurial mismanagement.
4. Coronary calcification predicts heart attacks.
Thanks to Dave Lull.
Assorted Links
2. This rewritten Modern Love column is hilarious. To appreciate it you probably want to read the original first. Related data analysis.
3. Why don’t we see wine self-experimentation?
4. The Mum Effect.
Thanks to Joyce Cohen.
Assorted Links
1. Gary Taubes speaks at Stevens Institute of Technology. This page curiously links to itself.
2. Ticket cameras increase crashes. The opposite of what was promised. They have just been installed in downtown Berkeley.
3. Humor and the boss-employee relationship. Not exactly self-experimentation, but close.
4. Sherwin Nuland on being treated for severe depression. His doctors recommended that Nuland receive a prefrontal lobotomy. A resident said: Let’s try ECT.
Thanks to Dave Lull.
Assorted Links
1. Suppression of dissent in science and elsewhere.
2. Center for Science Writing at Stevens Institute of Technology. Includes stuff about Gary Taubes.
3. Daughters more psychologically sophisticated than their moms.
Thanks to Dave Lull and Marginal Revolution.