Readings
A bevy of things worth reading while I’m out on holidays:
- American Science -- Fragile Eminence? (Tenner)
- Most expensive home in America gets property reassessment (Aspen Daily News)
- Old cars are a sign of the times (Telegraph)
- Quentin Tarantino: file under “music obsessive” (Times Online)
- UK cost of living falls most since 1948 (Telegraph)
- Venture Investment Continues to Shrink (DealBook)
- What Makes Mr. Zhang Save? (Wilson Quarterly)
- Heed the Lesson of Greenspan (Shanghai Daily)
- Parking and the visual perception of space (arXiv)
- Airplane graveyard forensics (FT)
- Keeping Up Appearances: London Turns Eye to Empty Mansions (WSJ)
- Foreclosed house draws 135 offers (OCRegister)
- And now, a few words from Carl Sagan (Pharyngula)
- Quake Fears Stall Energy Extraction Project (NYTimes)
- The Solution … is the Problem: Eric Sprott on U.S. debt (Sprott)
- The Increased Competitiveness of the US Economy (MR)
- Paul McCulley on monetary policy (PIMCO)
- HARVARD MBA ENROLLS RECORD (New York Post)
- Why is There Peace? (Greater Good)
- James Dyson: Inventing the Wright way (New Scientist)
- Recent reforms strengthening Brazil’s resilience to economic crisis (OECD)
- Game theorist Thomas Schelling on the environment (Conor Clarke)
- A new kind of economic indicator (McKinsey)
- Prizes: a winning strategy for innovation (McKinsey)
- Will Asia become the center for innovation in the 21st century? (McKinsey)
- Does Stock-Market Data Go Back 200 Years? (WSJ)