- 'Father of Fractals' takes on the stock market. Benoit Mandelbrot is world-famous for making mathematical sense of irregular shapes--clouds that are not round, mountains that are not cones, coastlines that are not smooth, and now, stock markets that are not as simple as previously thought.
- The game theory of Arlen Specter.
- Peering into North Korea.
- Life in a bubble. Hundreds of insect species spend much of their time underwater, where food may be more plentiful. MIT mathematicians have now figured out exactly how those insects breathe underwater using a thin layer of air on their bodies.
- Tom Bihn introduces the Tri-Star carry-on travel bag. This could be a good bag for people like me who like to travel carry-on only. It's a bit smaller than the bag I typically carry. More thoughts on it here and here.
- Five expectations to avoid before volunteering abroad.
- Can you pirate piracy?
- Ricardo Reis talks to Russ Roberts about Keynes, macroeconomics, and monetary policy.
- Tynan's top ten cruise tips.
- Seven open orgtheory problems.
- Tyler Cowen and Alex Tabarrok have a new macroeconomics textbook coming out. Here is the affiliated blog. Read sample chapters here and here. I read the chapter on The Wealth of Nations and Economic Worth and it looks like a good book.
- Is the recession good for female lawyers?
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