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Caught my eye
1. The Selfish Gene, thirty years later, transcript and audio file.
2. Inside Man. I've been burned by Spike Lee movies too many, oh so many times, but this one is excellent. It is also a study in game theory and the value of meta-rationality. While we are on the topic, how did I forget Live and Let Die - the only good Roger Moore James Bond film -- on my list of notable movies set in Louisiana?
3. Charles Murray on his new book and plan for welfare reform. An interesting idea, but can you say "time inconsistency" three times in a row fast?
4. James Surowiecki on why newspapers are not doomed.
5. Don't expect too much from job retraining.
6. Steve Levitt's Africa fact of the day, and yes it involves both sex and violence.
7. Stanislaw Lem passes away; could his Solaris be the best science fiction novel ever? Don't forget the Tarkovsky film version either.
Posted by Tyler Cowen on March 28, 2006 at 02:05 PM in Web/Tech | Permalink
Comments
I thought Lem hated Tarkovsky's film and I agree the two don't really match well. Which one do you favor?
Posted by: jn at Mar 28, 2006 2:13:01 PM
Solaris? Fiasco, well ahead of The Invincible and Pirx for my money.
Posted by: KevinM at Mar 28, 2006 3:34:42 PM
Solaris the best science fiction novel ever? Please.
Ender's Game heads a list of about 20 other books I'd place before even considering it.
Posted by: Zac at Mar 28, 2006 8:54:55 PM
Michael Caine deserved a chance to serve as James Bond.
Posted by: christofay at Mar 28, 2006 10:36:31 PM
I like Ender's Game, that coment is nevertheless crazy. On the post, I don't think anyone would argue that Lee is consistenly good, but given how good 25th Hour was, surely it wasn't in doubt that he still had the ability to make a great film, which I agree Inside Man is.
Posted by: washerdreyer at Mar 28, 2006 11:17:55 PM
My favorite Lem novel is His Master's Voice.
Posted by: L at Mar 29, 2006 1:20:19 AM
Jodie is rarely in a stinker
Posted by: Bruce at Mar 29, 2006 8:10:54 AM
An interesting idea, but can you say "time inconsistency" three times in a row fast?If we start paying people to merely exist, how much more "mere existence" we will see? It strikes me that a 10k per person subsidy would eliminate the very strong incentive to get the skills and education to ensure they stay out of penury. Do we really want to eliminate the poverty incentive almost entirely?
I'm curious what kind of social and economic evolutions you think a program like this would create.
Posted by: Jon Henke at Mar 29, 2006 9:01:22 AM
Perhaps not if banks accepted the prospective windfalls as (explicit or implicit) collateral for teenage borrowing - then the kids'd be forced to get jobs aged 21 to pay back their debts...
If not, i wonder how many people turn 21 every year. enough to cause an inflationary tidal wave when it first kicked in?
Posted by: roland at Mar 29, 2006 10:35:47 AM
Solaris isn't even Lem's best book (though I do like it).
Personally The Cyberiad's a favorite but that may not be serious enough for serious sci fi fans. (Actually there's a lot of seriousness in it it's just very well hidden)
And yeah, Lem's complaint about Tarkovsky's film was something like "he didn't film Solaris, he filmed Crime and Punishment in space!".
Posted by: radek at Mar 29, 2006 1:05:51 PM
Charles Murray proposes that the feds give Bill Gates $10K a year, and he's some kinda pundit?
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