Seth’s blog

1. One of Entertainment Weekly’s most Spy-like articles: So You Want To Write A Memoir
2. Genesis in lolspeak, part of the Lolcat Bible Translation Project.
3. A riveting EconTalk interview about buying a new car.
4. Speaking of cars, the hidden meaning of bumper stickers.

Thanks to Joyce Cohen and Robin Hanson.

1. Bruce Bawer on the Up Series.

2. Gary Taubes interview: Part 1

3. Problems with public libraries.

4. Armand Hammer, one of the greatest con men of the 20th Century, almost won a Nobel Prize. Came in 2nd to the Dalai Lama. Watch the Charlie Rose interview with Edward Jay Epstein in 1996.

5. Nassim Taleb’s contingency fund.

Thanks to Dave Lull.

1. Amory Lovins lecture series. 5 lectures, each about 1.5 hr. New Yorker profile of Lovins.
2. Unexpected effects of a low-carb diet by Gary Taubes.
3. Beware diet sodas?

Thanks to Dave Lull and Brett Johnson.

1. LSD, My Problem Child by Albert Hoffman (full book).

2. High-powered editing (scroll down to the Karp letter).

3. Plow the Deep: terrific but rejected title for William Bernstein’s new history of trade. Excellent EconTalk podcast.

4. Speaking of editing, proofreading fiasco.

1. Why Word has an animated paperclip. For more on this, see the excellent Who Really Matters: The Core Group Theory of Power, Prestige, and Success by Art Kleiner.
2. Does sugar make it harder to fight off microbes?
3. Practical memory training.
4. Interview with Leonard Mlodinow, author of Feynman’s Rainbow and the soon-to-be-published The Drunkard’s Walk: How Randomness Rules Our Lives.

Thanks to Dave Lull and Peter Spero.