Field Notes: Sex, Saudis, Shiller, Solo, etc.
Why Would a Shrink Fall Asleep During a Patient’s Session? (Source)
Michael Palin on Diary Writing (Source)
Back to Saudi's fault lines (Source)
Shiller Singles Out Farmland as Bubble Candidate: Chart of the Day (Source)
The unsolved anthrax murder ...
No Jets For You: Agency Problems in Public & Private Firms
From a new paper:
Agency Problems in Public Firms: Evidence from Corporate Jets in Leveraged Buyouts
Abstract: This paper uses rich, new data to examine the fleets of corporate jets operated by both publicly traded and privately held firms. In the cro...
San Francisco Jobs Approach Dot Com Peak — in Less Space
Lots of stories this weekend about the improvement in the California jobs picture, especially in the technology community. The number of tech jobs in San Francisco is finally regaining the dot-com peak, albeit in less office space, which is an interest...
Time to Swap Out My Nail Polish Car For A Gas Model
[via Autoblog]
Today in Body Fat
Riveting reading on macable differences in body composition among fighters in Afghanistan, by an ER doctor working there:
RECENTLY I WORKED as an internist-intensivist at the Canadian Combat Surgical Hospital in Kandahar. Most of our casualties were A...
Three Disaster Videos of the Day
Japanese ship rides over tsunami:
Man films tsunami approach from harbor
Dust storm approaches Kuwait today
Field Notes: Marrakech, Ice, News, GE, Y Combinator, etc.
Another bad winter for Arctic ice (Source)
What can we learn from Facebook reactions to online news? (Source)
DocumentCloud (Source)
G.E.’s Strategies Let It Avoid Taxes Altogether (Source)
The Anatomy of a Y Combinator Demo Day Pitch (Source)
Marra...
Google Chrome Index Fund
Graphic of Google Chrome browser download size in MB over the last two years and ten major releases. Too bad it's not an index fund, because it's sharply up and to the right.
[via CNET]
On the Macabre Merits of Swiss vs Canadian Avalanches
A macabre but interesting new paper in the Canadian Medical Association Journal showing that Swiss avalanches are less deadly than Canadian ones, all else being equal.
Comparison of avalanche survival patterns in Canada and Switzerland
Pascal Haegeli,...
Field Notes: Snow, Banks, Books, Sun, Power, etc.
More Snow Hits California's Sierra, Setting Records - OnTheSnow (Source)
Epistemic Complexity and the Journeyman-Expert Transition (Source)
Mega-Banks and the Next Financial Crisis (Source)
The Future of Nuclear Energy Around the World (Source)
The ...
Harvard MBAs Go Back to Wall Street
Harvard's MBA class of 2010 headed back to Wall Street in higher proportions. While we're not yet back to peak levels in terms of the percentage of the HBS graduating class going off to create financial instruments of mass destruction, the uptick is a ...
Book Recommendations
I've been on a Kindle book binge lately, so here are a few I've read and can recommend:
Moonwalking with Einstein: The Science of Remembering Everything
Super and funny stuff on how a journalist became a star in the competitive remembering business.
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