Links - September 7, 2015
I spent most of last week moving to my new apartment in San Francisco, which meant I had no time to post links.
Here’s a big list to make up for a lost week:
- Tech nerds are smart. But they can't seem to get their heads around politics. David Roberts - Vox
- Bar Chart Baselines Start at Zero Nathan Yau
- Aphantasia: A life without mental images James Gallagher - BBC News
- Viewpoint: Copyright Battle Over State Law Threatens Innovation Jake Heller
- The Effect of Payday Lending Restrictions on Liquor Sales Harold Cuffe and Chris Gibbs - Economist's View
- The Story Behind How Pocket Hit 20M Users with 20 People First Round Review
- The lottery is a tax, an inefficient, regressive, and exploitative tax Max Galka
- Procedural Dungeon Generation Algorithm A. Adonaac
- Friends at Work? Not So Much Adam Grant - NYT
- Driven to Kill, Why drivers in China intentionally kill the pedestrians they hit Geoffrey Sant - Slate
- Academics are being hoodwinked into writing books nobody can buy Anonymous Academic - The Guardian
- This week, I resigned from my position at Duke University Jean-François Gariépy
- I am not a story Zachary Leader - Aeon
- Regretting the Golden Handcuffs Matthew Lyon
- Broken sleep Karen Emslie - Aeon
- PC Comedy and Paul Revere Sady Doyle - Matter
- The hidden economic lessons of the evil eye Matt Phillips - Quartz
- Economics Has a Math Problem Noah Smith - Bloomberg View
- Gravity Paul Krugman - NYT
- Trump is right on economics Paul Krugman - NYT
- The Thirty-Year Boom David Warsh