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Making Lithium-Sulfide Batteries for Electric Vehicles More Practical | MIT Technology Review
Why China’s Microchip Challenger Loongson Will Struggle to Displace Intel, AMD, and ARM | MIT Technology Review
BBC News - Family meals 'boost child fruit and vegetable intake'
BBC News - Fighting may have shaped evolution of human hand
BBC - Future - Technology - How to survive the future
Why Anxiety Makes You a Sucker for Bad Advice - Knowledge@Wharton
January Effect Revives Battered Stocks
Economic Conditions Snapshot, December 2012: Survey results - McKinsey Quarterly - Economic Studies - Productivity & Performance
John Lott, Gun Advocate, Wants To Arm Teachers And Everyone Else | The New Republic
Mount Everest in stunning two billion pixel image detail - Telegraph
BBC News - Who owns the UK's debt?
Two Wrist-Worn Devices, From Neumitra and Affectiva, Could Help Monitor PTSD and Other Anxiety Disorders | MIT Technology Review
Stanford Researchers Make Flexible Solar Cells that Stick to Just About Any Surface | MIT Technology Review
Hope for Electric Vehicle Battery Manufacturers | MIT Technology Review
Stephen Williamson: New Monetarist Economics: Guns
The Mayan apocalypse: how to destroy the Earth - video | World news | guardian.co.uk
Why the US media ignored Murdoch's brazen bid to hijack the presidency | Carl Bernstein | Comment is free | The Guardian

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Steven Williamson's piece on the externalities of guns comes awfully close to suggesting an apparent win-win with Wayne LaPierre's belief we should have a cop for every classroom. Had Williamson the benefit of witnessing the NRA response to Newtown today no doubt he would have suggested a tax on guns and/or ammunition to fund that program. If enacted I might pity even more the friend of mine who claims he can hardly make ends meet at his restaurant yet boasts of owning over 100 guns and 30,000 rounds of ammunition.

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Well, it was more of an illustration of how economists think about problems like this, not necessarily it's conclusion that was remarkable. Posting a collateral, Pigouvian taxes, information problems, pretty interesting stuff (for an economist)!

And I forgot other spill-over effects:
http://themonkeycage.org/blog/2012/12/18...-violence/