"Dreamlike" Tidal Bore Wave
Teaser video from surf trip to Indonesian river tidal bore that produces super clean breaking wave.
Stature and Robusticity in the Neolithic Demographic Transition
From some book-related reading I've been doing:
Stature and Robusticity during the Agricultural Transition: Evidence from the Bioarchaeological Record
Abstract
The population explosion that followed the Neolithic revolution was initially explained by ...
Stature and Robusticity in the Neolithic Demographic Transition
From some book-related reading I've been doing:
Stature and Robusticity during the Agricultural Transition: Evidence from the Bioarchaeological Record
Abstract
The population explosion that followed the Neolithic revolution was initially explained by ...
Big History
Historian David Christian from this year's TED talking Big History.
Geologic Time
I'm traveling and mostly off-grid for this week.
Rogers Waters Talks Ideas
Pink Floyd co-founder Roger Waters talks ideas and influence in this weekend's Lunch with the FT:
"Power resides in ideas," he says. What sort of ideas, I ask, growing accustomed to my role as Boswell to his Johnson. "Economists are important."
More ...
Baby You Can Drive My Car
Top five vehicle selection by women sorted by ethnic group.
[via Polk]
The Changing Nature of Delusions
From a new study, the changing 20th century nature of delusions in American psychiatric hospital. Fantastic stuff:
...more patients after 1950 believe they are being spied upon is consistent with the development of related technology and the advent of...
Unearthing America’s Past
Interesting looking new book ("Before the Revolution: America's Ancient Past") on unearthing America's past in its layered historical strata:
[A half-millenium before Columbus's arrival history] was already happening in North America, where Ancient Na...
Field Notes: Inflation, Trade, DEC, etc.
Pagerank matrix of world trade network (Source)
Would DEC Still Exist if Non-Competes Didn’t? (Source)
Preqin survey finds 50% rise in public pension plans investing in hedge funds (Source)
Wal-Mart CEO Bill Simon expects "serious" inflation (Source...
Take Part in Prediction Tournament
Want to take part in a prediction/forecasting tournament and aid research? Here's your chance to take part by being a member of a team doing so in national security, global affairs and economics:
Prediction markets can harness the "wisdom of crowds" t...
Patent Reform Readings
For something else I've been working on, some readings on first-to-file versus first-to-invent and patent reform.
Novelty and disclosure in patent law, Rand Journal
The end of the first-to-invent rule: A concise history of its origin, IDEA - The Intel...
