Linkfest 2017-04-21
Why is this so funny?
Depending on you do the accounting, emergency rooms aren't the most expensive way to get care.
If you combine this essay from 2016 by Rusty Reno, editor of First Things, with this 2017 article by Steve Sailer, you can get a sense of just how weird American elite universities have gotten.
Another Rusty Reno / Steve Sailer pairing, this time on how corporate and political diversity initiatives are used to shore up the status quo.
Tyler Cowen points out that stats wise, West Virginia isn't so bad. This is an interesting article on its own merits, but it also makes me wonder whether standard economic metrics are all they are cracked up to be.
Bryan Caplan points out that talking about IQ doesn't have to make a monster, but in his experience it often does. Since I follow a lot of IQ/psychology/genetics researchers on Twitter, I got to see many of them questioning Caplan about this in real time.
This story is almost ten years old now, but I didn't know that the monasteries at Mt. Athos still run under their Byzantine grant.
A number of my favorites made this list: Gattaca, Screamers, and Event Horizon.
H. P. Lovecraft is a favorite author of mine. I think these are indeed good places to start.
This title is horribly misleading. This is really an article about intellectual property law, and how a clever strategy almost allowed Google to publish orphaned books.
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