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This Is A Great Book
We are reading it in my Behavioral Economics class and so far we have finished the first 5 chapters which make up Part I of the book “Anticipating Future Preferences.” In Ran Spiegler’s typical style,...
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Sentence of the Day, An Unknown Number of Days Ago
Hume has been locked out of the room and he is not allowed to re-enter in the form of Parfit having a dialogue with Cho and Kreps. That’s from Tyler’s review of a book called On What Matters Vol. I (a...
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It Is Safe To Read Cheap Talk On The Toilet
This article surveys the frontiers of toilet-reading science. Few downsides, some upsides. No writer owned the arena of toilet reading more than Henry Miller. He read truly great books on the...
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The Boundaries of Credibility
From a science fiction writer, who should know. So, yeah: In a film with impossibly large spiders, talking trees, rings freighted with corrupting evil, Uruks birthed from mud (not to mention legions of...
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The Collected Blurbs of Gary Shteyngart
Not 100% sure this is real. Here’s his blurb for Miss Timmins School for Girls by Nayana Currimbhoy: “Beautifully written, atmospheric…contains entire worlds. I couldn’t put it down.” —Gary...
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Does The “Agency Model” Lead to Higher E-Book Prices?
Josh Gans gives a handy benchmark model where the answer is no. MODEL 1: Wholesale Pricing Suppose that a book publisher charges a price of p to a retailer. Then, based on this, the retailer sets a...
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Mark Twain on Plagiarism
Oh, dear me, how unspeakably funny and owlishly idiotic and grotesque was that “plagiarism” farce! As if there was much of anything in any human utterance, oral or written, except plagiarism! The...
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Richard Dawkins Weighs In On E.O. Wilson’s Group Selection
Dawkins couldn’t be more dull when he is playing the heretic. When he is excoriating heretics, on the other hand, he is sharp as a tack: Misunderstanding Number One, which is also perpetrated by...
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Spoilers Gotta Spoil
This guy wrote a column about The Hunger Games and gave away many details of the plot, some of them big-time spoilers. Then he wrote a column about how he was actually doing his readers a favor...
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Spoiler Hell
A great story on The Morning News about a guy who is trying to preserve his spoiler-free existence in the face of meddling Internets, bus riders, and Amazon delivery guys: Well, don’t you worry. This...
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