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5.26.2017

Weekend Links

1) “You really start losing the startup feel when you have thousands of people doing physical labor.”

2) Human behavioral complexity peaks at age 25.

3) "I followed Duckpenisgate with particular trepidation, since I was one of the co-investigators on the maligned study."

4) Bayesian evidence on US government spending multipliers.

5) An anti-essentialist view of Silicon Valley.

6) Winners of NSF's 2017 Vizzies

7) FT on the other other Green Revolution

8) Interacted instruments have their own parallel trends problem.

9) Chris Blattman's summary slides from his Order and Violence class

10) Introducing the synestia, "a huge, spinning, donut-shaped mass of hot, vaporized rock, formed as planet-sized objects smash into each other."

11) On the optimal level of existential terror.

12) Sand scarcity rents continue to rise.

13) "Neoliberalism: Mend It, Don't End It"

14) Is truncating the y-axis dishonest?
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