Seth’s blog

1. Gary Taubes on sleep deprivation and the obesity epidemic.

2. Jane Jacobs on nature and economics (quotes).

3. Long excellent post on entrepreneurial mismanagement.

4. Coronary calcification predicts heart attacks.

Thanks to Dave Lull.

1. Curious customers.

2. This rewritten Modern Love column is hilarious. To appreciate it you probably want to read the original first. Related data analysis.

3. Why don’t we see wine self-experimentation?

4. The Mum Effect.

Thanks to Joyce Cohen.

1. Gary Taubes speaks at Stevens Institute of Technology. This page curiously links to itself.

2. Ticket cameras increase crashes. The opposite of what was promised. They have just been installed in downtown Berkeley.

3. Humor and the boss-employee relationship. Not exactly self-experimentation, but close.

4. Sherwin Nuland on being treated for severe depression. His doctors recommended that Nuland receive a prefrontal lobotomy. A resident said: Let’s try ECT.

Thanks to Dave Lull.

1. Suppression of dissent in science and elsewhere.

2. Center for Science Writing at Stevens Institute of Technology. Includes stuff about Gary Taubes.

3. Daughters more psychologically sophisticated than their moms.

Thanks to Dev Rana, Dave Lull, and Marginal Revolution.