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Wednesday, April 20, 2011

The Daily Dozen

  1. What health insurance does cover, and doesn't.
  2. What techniques do police use to get suspects to confess?
  3. The joy of not cooking. Megan McArdle takes a look at the difference in how easy it is for her to cook compared to her grandmother.
  4. Nature vs. nurture, as seen by economists.
  5. Seth Godin on accepting false limits.
  6. The sad, beautiful fact that we're all going to miss almost everything. (HT Tyler Cowen)
  7. Angry Birds meets Star Wars.
  8. A free book well worth your time: For those interested in the topic, click here to obtain a free download of Policy and Choice: Public Finance through the Lens of Behavioral Economics by William J. Congdon, Jeffrey R. Kling, and Sendhil Mullainathan.
  9. Upper income people still don't realize they're upper income.
  10. Can business be taught?
  11. Privilege: How society's elites are made.
  12. A look at iPad users: Apple still trouncing Android.
Posted by Brian Hollar at 10:48 AM
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