Alex Tabarrok at Marginal Revolution has a great post about how laundry machines are suffering under new energy-efficiency guidelines.
Monthly Archives: September 2007
Best Sentence I Read Today
After an awkward, 15-second period of silence, Winters thankfully moved away from the podium, only to be replaced by 32-year-old Laurel Hale, who seemed eager to prove to every citizen of New Bedford that she had the brainpower of an autistic dog.
Best College Football Commentary on the Web
The best football commentary on the web belongs to Dan Shanoff, who has a weekly article at Deadspin. Check it out.
How Economists Think About the World
Tyler Cowen, GMU professor and one of the best bloggers on the Internet in my humble opinion, contemplates the optimal number of tennis balls to play with, and Steven Levitt, author of Freakonomics, has a post about why people eat three times as much shrimp now as they did in the 80′s.
10% Off at the Penn Bookstore
To get 10% off all purchases at the Penn Bookstore, simply tell the cashier you are a Barnes & Noble club member. They don’t ask for your phone number or anything.
Update: Unfortunately I think this was one nice cashier before school started, who gave me a discount. You can always ask for a discount; sometimes people are nice and they give you one.
I’ll be buying my books either at BetterThanTheBookstore or at Amazon.
Guarantee These Rights
From the Cato Institute:
“I once attended a dinner discussion with a bunch of health care big-wigs. One highly educated woman — she is both an M.D. and a J.D. — began the dinner by declaring, “We need to make health care a right in this country, just as we make education a right.”
Later in the dinner, she complained that her organization’s materials must be written at an 8th-grade level to be understood by their target audience.
I interrupted to ask how she reconciled those two statements: if we really have created a right to education, why the poor reading comprehension? And if we create a parallel right to health care, how many people’s medical care will be stuck at an 8th-grade level? Her answer was non-responsive.”