2010

Tyler Cowen of Marginal Revolution highlights two unusual sentences found in recent news articles. via Marginal Revolution

Alex Tabarrok agrees with Bruce Schneier that closing the Washington Monument would symbolize the US government's fear of terrorism. via The source of this content is Marginal Revolution.

Garry Kasprov, a chess grandmaster himself, discusses how the implications of artificial intelligence have been misunderstood in his article The Chess Master. via The source of this content is The New York Review of Books.

Tyler Cowen links to an 1895 Kansas 8th grade exam which was brought to his attention by Chris F. Masse.

via The source of this content is Marginal Revolution.

Ideas behind their time explores innovations like experimental economics and questions why they weren't developed sooner.

Steven Landsburg, author of "The Big Questions: Tackling the Problems of Philosophy with Ideas from Mathematics, Economics, and Physics," wonders what percentage of men have lived to adulthood without experiencing war.

via The Big Questions: Tackling the Problems of Philosophy with Ideas from Mathematics, Economics, and Physics