'Academic doping' set to rise (HT: Freakonomics) Prior Lounge coverage of sports doping and cheating here and here.
An open letter to the Nobel prize committee: create Nobel prizes for the Global Environment and Public Health, and expand the prize for physiology or medicine to recognize contributions from across the life sciences. (New Scientist, via Tyler Cowen)
The 2016
Olympics to be held in Rio, following closely on the heels of the 2014 FIFA
World Cup, also in Brazil. Chicago
lost out, with the
prediction markets way off on this one. Rio had the largest financial bid, plus a
"distribution" of the Games advantage, because the games had never
been to South America. I only got
to go to the Olympics once: the Atlanta games in 1996. It’s definitely on my list of things to
do again if I get the chance.
A B- for the U.S Constitution, due to sloppy penmanship, bad spelling, inconsistent capitalization, ambiguous text, and a price that makes a “$640 toilet seat for the Pentagon seem like a bargain.”
Hard times for Harvard lawyers. (The Harvard Crimson, via Al Roth)
Funny healthcare videos from Gordon, and a funny summer vacation chart from Usha over at The Glom.
What with all the ACORN ruckus and an upcoming symposium at which I’ll discuss the costs of societal and legal pretense surrounding the existence of many “taboo markets” (one section of the paper originated with a blog post here at the Lounge over the summer, by the way– See Me, Feel Me, Touch Me, Tax Me), I seem to be noticing a fair number of posts about taxation and sex work these days. Omar Ha-Redeye has a post up at slaw.ca on Prostitution and Tax Expenses, and Slate has one on How Do Prostitutes Pay Their Taxes? Surrogacy and taxation seems to be a growth industry as well, with recent papers by Bridget Crawford and Morgan L. Holcomb.
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Prototype Measures Gross National Happiness . . . Yep, Mondays suck for everybody.
And these peaks at holidays are highly inconsistent with my own personal experience, not that this matters. . .
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