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Leprechaun’s Attempt To Retrieve Gold Ends Tragically

the awl rules

Sure, it’s chess, but seriously, it has always amazed me how people could focus on something while young.

But it’s clear that that’s how you climb to the highest levels of any activity. You’ve gotta love practicing.

A photograph of a Bird’s stomach (h/t Tyler Cowen)

I was disturbed.

Listening to the James Burke podcast.

My takeaway at the halfway point: the major social trend over the next generation is going to be dealing with the massive decentralization of knowledge and its struggle against the centralization of power.  That’s very Arnold Kling, but with a nod to Russ Roberts, Cowen, etc… And Hanson.

Libertarians and Liberals

History Podcasts. I’ve downloaded the whole series.

Maybe not

It truly is.

Slow, unathletic, vaguely homoerotic, illogical, anti-climactic. It has it all.

Hilarious

I always feel stupid when I comment on these things, so here’s the link:
evidence that speciation occurs as a response to a separating event.

I once joked about doing this when I have kids some day.