Link Archipelago
March 5, 2010
- Evidence for Free Willy Curse here and here and here.
- Politicians sweep midterm elections.
- Why we aren’t living in Western Civilization.
- Obsolete jobs from yesteryear: pics of pinsetters, elevator operators, icemen and others. What jobs will disappear in the next 30 years? I vote tenured professors, professional basketball players, and city desk reporters.
- Video: freak 30 foot wave crashes into cruise ship, killing two.
- Wyoming legislators pass the Cowboy Code: Talk less, say more
- Jonathan Haidt’s book proposal on political psychology: “I’ll make it clear that the terms ‘liberal’ and ‘conservative’ refer to families of views that are not necessarily united by any one belief, but that can be understood best by examining how ecological contexts (such as agricultural vs. herding vs. trading economies) activate a variety of personality variables (such as openness to experience, authoritarianism, or disgust sensitivity) to make certain philosophical positions attractive to different people.”
- NYTimes: human culture as evolutionary force.
- Michael Lewis, The Big Short: How a one-eyed man forecasted the financial meltdown and made millions.
Let A Thousand Nations Bloom 
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