Random links
- The Koreans who televise themselves eating dinner
- "How do you fancy eating your dinner at home in front of a webcam and letting thousands of people watch? If they like the way you eat, they will pay you money - maybe a few hundred dollars a night... a good salary for doing what you would do anyway. This is happening now in South Korea."
- ‘Ordinary bloke’ prepares for hysterectomy after doctors discover womb during bladder cancer test
- "Doctors believe Rob has a rare condition called persistent Mullerian duct syndrome (PMDS). This results in men developing external male genitalia and internal female reproductive organs."
- Optimal life cycle unemployment insurance
- Makes sense to me: "we should index unemployment benefits to a person’s age. For the liquidity-constrained, human capital-investing young, we don’t want to rush them into unsuitable jobs. The older workers — that’s another matter."
- The Scorching of California
- As with most environmental policies there tends to be a mix of pros and cons - here this piece argues that "Green extremists made a bad drought worse"