* “News is bad for you [. . .] The real news consists of dull but informative reports circulated by consultancies giving in-depth insight into what’s going on. The sort of stuff you find digested in the inside pages of The Economist. All else is comics.”
* Women and the crab-basket effect.
* “New Publisher Authors Trust: Themselves.” File this under “Calling Captain Obvious.”
* The future of U.S. space policy, a topic that is under-discussed.
* Human extinction is an underrated threat.
* Is China covering up another flu pandemic?
* Russell Blake: Why authors annoy me, which is really about how any “rules” about art also meant to be broken.
* “One look at why income inequality is growing,” hat tip and headline tip Tyler Cowen.
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