One Guy and a Dream

With Massachusetts soon to follow?

Nevada Passes Law Authorizing Driverless Cars – Alex Knapp – Robot Overlords – Forbes.

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I have no idea how to tell if this is real, but I hope it is. A 10 year old food critic:

Adventures of a Koodie.

So far all of the reviews I’ve read were 5 stars (except for an 8 out of 10 for his family’s Thanksgiving dinner).

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I never really considered how hard it is to draw a circle until a professor in grad school challenged us to try. This is impressive:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eAhfZUZiwSE

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I’m a few years removed from my grad school days, but not so many that I can’t appreciate this:

Journal of Universal Rejection.

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How would you do on an 8th grade exam from 1895? How many of the answers to these questions have changed since then?

8th Grade Exam.

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[Note: I have a few posts saved from last year that I'll probably be posting this week, so take the "Today" part of the tagline with a grain of salt.]

Tyler Cowen, the George Mason economics professor and main contributor at Marginal Revolution, wrote an eloquent analysis of income inequality and how it ties to the financial crisis:

The Inequality That Matters – Tyler Cowen – The American Interest Magazine.

SMBC isn’t in my regular rotation, but probably should be:

Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal.

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Update: Link fixed.

This is a relatively new blog with some great graphic comparisons of the two cities. I’m excited to see what else they come up with:

Paris vs New York, a tally of two cities.

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I’m not sure how to describe this, but it’s definitely worth watching:

YouTube – Mimic Octopus.

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Double post today because I missed yesterday.

I’m a little late on this, but Peter Diamond was recently the co-recipient of the Nobel Prize in Economics. (For another interesting link, this prize is not one of the original Nobel Prizes.) I think my knowledge of economics (admittedly not very high to begin with) may have doubled just by reading this overview of his work:

Marginal Revolution: Peter A. Diamond.

Similar summaries of the other co-recipients are available on the same site:

Dale T. Mortensen

Christopher A. Pissarides

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