Random links
- The Economics of All-You-Can-Eat Buffets
- "What do health insurance and all-you-can-eat buffets have in common? The economic theory of adverse selection tells us that neither should exist." Typically full of mediocre food - I'm not a fan.
- A complete solution for oil-spill cleanup
- "Scientists are describing what may be a "complete solution" to cleaning up oil spills -- a superabsorbent material that sops up 40 times its own weight in oil and then can be shipped to an oil refinery and processed to recover the oil. "
- Self-portrait of a tree as a young sapling
- I kind of like it.
- Inside the Mind of Worry
- "Work on the neural roots of fear by the neuroscientist Joseph LeDoux of New York University, and others, has found that in the complex interplay of slower, conscious reason and quicker, subconscious emotion and instinct, the basic architecture of the brain ensures that we feel first and think second. ... just as we are too afraid of some things, this same “feelings and facts” system works the other way too, sometimes leaving us inadequately concerned about bigger risks."