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Kickstarter - 8-Bit Cities: real-world maps that look like 80s video games
Sex Lives of Animals without Backbones (via Awful Library Books)
The most shocking result of having researched the causes of the financial crisis for the last year and a half is this discovery: economists have no compunctions about answering empirical questions, such as what caused the specific crisis of 2008, with general theoretical models, whether macro- or micro- in nature, that may or may not have any applicability to the actual historical event at hand. The possibility that a good model may not be applicable in a specific circumstance never seems to cross their minds. — Causes of the Crisis: From Diversity to Consensus, and Austrian Economics
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From a collection of “hate mail from third graders” sent to the director of the Hayden Planetarium, via NOVA.
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And the end of all our exploring will be to arrive where we started
Picard’s Facebalm via classicfun.ws
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