The Daily Dozen

1. Printing the NYT costs twice as much as sending every subscriber a free Kindle.
2. How to travel around the world without flying.
3. Groundhog Day: Phil and Spanish Joe say six more weeks of winter.
4. Happiness research and legal scholarship.
5. Mostly harmless econometrics.
6. The Asus 100HE -- a new netbook with 9.5 hour battery life for $375? Come out with a tablet version that gets this kind of battery life and I'm sold!
7. 2 simple paths to unhappiness: 1) Not getting what you want; and 2) Getting what you want.
8. Quote of the day: "In low-income countries, road traffic accidents account for 3.7 percent of deaths, twice as high as deaths due to malaria." Having traveled to numerous developing countries, I believe it.
   
9. Watch all of Sunday's Super Bowl ads on Hulu.com.
10. John Cochrane of the University of Chicago talks with Russ Roberts about the financial crisis.
11. 7 concepts of natural language learning.
12. Life without lawyers?