- Aliens may destroy humanity to protect other civilisations, say scientists. “This article was amended on 19 August 2011. The subhead said the report was “for NASA”. This has been corrected.”
- 50 Mac essentials
- Even more about pork in China: China Plans to Release Some of Its Pork Stockpile to Hold Down Prices, China to Release Pork Reserves as Prices Soar, Why Pork Prices Are Such a Big Deal in China (notes that pork makes up about 10% of the Chinese CPI, jokingly called the China Pig Index). And of course this global livestock count. And just for good measure here’s world milk production.
- Fairies, Witches and Supply and Demand. Economic messages in kids books.
- The Sad Statistic That Trumps the Others. Tyler Cowen on slumping productivity growth.
- Washington-Idaho CGE Model
- Why Americans Hate Economics by WSJ’s Stephen Moore. “In university classrooms—and especially the Obama White House—fancy theories of macroeconomics defy basic common sense.”
- Steve Brill’s Report Card on School Reform
- Number of Green Jobs Fails to Live Up to Promises
- Six Degrees: Our Future on a Hotter Planet
- On College Football: A Huge Scandal, but Probably Not the Harshest Penalties. See also College Football’s Ugly Season, Facing Scandals of Every Stripe, which quotes UW’s football coach and references NCAA President Mark Emmert, formerly the president of UW.
- Photo Turns U.S. Envoy Into a Lesson for Chinese; see also Gary Locke charms China by carrying own bag
- The Cartoon Introduction to Economics: Volume Two: Macroeconomics
- China Moves Swiftly to Close Chemical Plant After Protests; see also Protest Over Chemical Plant Shows Growing Pressure on China From Citizens
- A watershed moment for Obama on climate change, by Bill McKibben. IMHO, it would be very difficult politically for Obama to nix the pipeline before the Nov 2012 election, so my guess is that he’ll either approve it or (perhaps more likely?) delay until after the election. And for the record I”m still curious about how bad tar sands are relative to other sources of oil; burning the oil of course releases CO2, and there are local environmental impacts, but my impression is that CO2 from processing the tar sands are actually relatively small compared to burning the oil. Need to look into this more…
- Exceptions to Keynesian Theory, By CASEY B. MULLIGAN
- Airlines Race for Slice of Expanding Asia Market: “Delta Air Lines of the United States remains the largest carrier in the world, but the mainland Chinese carriers China Southern and China Eastern, for example, are now among the top 10 airlines in terms of passengers flown, despite being barely known outside the region… “Only about 3 or 4 percent of people in China fly, compared to about 15 percent in the United States,” Mr. Sinha said.”
- Books on Science: Shorelines, Sandy or Otherwise, That May Not Last: review of “The World’s Beaches”
- Refuse Collects Here, but Visitors and Wildlife Can Breathe Free: hopefully I’ll get to tour this when I’m in Singapore!
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