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Andy Kessler: Technology, deflation and the rise of consumption equality http://t.co/ol4GoXoR # WSJ: Record winter snow drought has California farmers nervous, ski areas struggling – http://t.co/zMbOFrOk # Vanity Fair: Heroes of the Fukushima Hot Zone – http://t.co/lqYfdDUb /via @longreads # In-flight WiFi still seeing only about 4% usage; avg flight 2-10 connections – http://t.co/caoz4tiD #...

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Orthopaedic surgeons: as strong as an ox and almost twice as clever? Multicentre prospective comparative study http://t.co/VBSGMgsw # Cheaters in the Steam Community Gaming Social Network. (arXiv:1112.4915v1 [cs.SI]) http://t.co/V4FH7YrH # Mastodons, ...

Video: A very Santa Jackson Hole story http://t.co/5UJDlemV # NPR Music's 100 favorite songs of 2011 http://t.co/N8wkZTWt # "[W]as anyone ever so young? I am here to tell you that someone was." – Joan Didion, "Goodbye to All That" # Smart Guide to 2012: The networks that run the world http://t.co/LXgvLECi # Sport Utility Vehicles:...

Video: A very Santa Jackson Hole story http://t.co/5UJDlemV # NPR Music's 100 favorite songs of 2011 http://t.co/N8wkZTWt # "[W]as anyone ever so young? I am here to tell you that someone was." – Joan Didion, "Goodbye to All That" # Smart Guide to 2012: The networks that run the world http://t.co/LXgvLECi # Sport Utility Vehicles:...

Excellent: Scientists have generated a strain of bird flu dramatically more dangerous than H5N1 http://t.co/lDvatuBf # How the Insurance Industry Tried to Ban Christmas http://t.co/C2hncgcz # The accidental universe: Science's crisis of faith /via @macroresilience http://t.co/fNBDl48a # Meanwhile, in Silicon Valley … the prosperity bubble http://t.co/SoJQyRVe # December 22d US snow cover extent is lowest...

When Steve Jobs Was a`Joker’: Echoes- Bloomberg http://t.co/kMl3QGno # How Did World War II End the Great Depression?: Echoes- Bloomberg http://t.co/yquwWb89 # Brother, Can You Spare a $100000 Bill? http://t.co/f4EQbXfA # Good NYT/Kolata update on research related to older runners – http://t.co/ETZFuhlZ # Deadliest weather disaster of 2011: the East African drought http://t.co/cyEUch88 # Causality,...

Everyone looked at RIMM and passed. That's good news, right? http://t.co/Mo6E6HRi # Playing "Whose money is this?" with JPMorgan and MF Global – http://t.co/TUeCD4lm # Mentioned this yesterday, but Max Abelson's article is hilarious: Bankers Join Billionaires to Debunk ‘Imbeciles’ – http://t.co/EERAvVl2 # It's The Hobbit, baby. Or at least The Hobbit trailer. http://t.co/r7JCOSZ4 #...

Bizarre flying over upstate New York and seeing ski hills with artificial snow surrounded by bare ground and open lakes. # 2/3ds of US quake risk is in CA, but only 10% of homes have quake insurance. I'm sure that will work out fine. http://t.co/tt0jJGtr # Graphically comparing US White Christmas probabilities, 1961-1990 vs 1981-2010...

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Say what you will about sovereign debt, Europe has excellent snow conditions. http://t.co/2sa0aznq # Looks like crunchy open for RIMM. This should be amusing. # RIMM open? Off a mere 12%. Good golly. Value traps get 'em every time. # People are posting some nutty guesses for Zynga's open/close today. You kids. # Btw, am...

New paper: Empirical confirmation of creative destruction from world trade data We show that world trade network datasets contain empirical evidence that the dynamics of innovation in the world economy follows indeed the concept of creative destruction, as proposed by J.A. Schumpeter more than half a century ago. National economies can be viewed as complex,...