- What’s happening on Wall St. and why it matters - Doug Diamond and Anil Kashyap, provide an intelligent assessment of exactly what has happened in the financial markets recently and what it all means. (Freakonomics Blog)
- Using Facebook to find a job - A website called One Day, One Job recently conducted an experiment by getting university seniors to create ads on Facebook and target them to people who work at the companies where they want to work. (via Freakonomics)
- Why Libertarians should move to Canada - Will Wilkinson reports on the Cato Institute’s 2008 Economic Freedom of the World study noting that Canada has moved ahead of the U.S. on the list. (via Marginal Revolution)
- Behold a 30-ton, 10-foot-high spinning ball of steel and sodium - Clive Thompson reports on a wonderfully insane experiment to simulate the Earth’s magnetic field. Steampunk science. (collision detection)
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