A Theory of Narrow Thinking

https://economics.mit.edu/files/15186

Why Austria is Still the Center of Espionage

https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-46228163

DRD4-7R

The "wanderlust gene."

ACE-IQ

"Adverse Childhood Experiences International Questionnaire, or ACE-IQ, which identifies 13 factors in young lives that can lead to problems in adulthood."

The Undiagnosed Diseases Network

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/01/07/health/patients-medical-mysteries.html

Russian Agents Sought Secret US Records

https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/anthonycormier/russian-agents-sought-us-treasury-records-on-clinton-backers

How Tariffs Work and Why China Won't See a Bill

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/11/29/us/politics/how-tariffs-work-china.html

Surprising Formula for Becoming an Art Star

https://www.wsj.com/articles/the-surprising-formula-for-becoming-an-art-star-1541704849

A Week as a Legal Sex Worker

https://www.yahoo.com/lifestyle/week-legal-sex-worker-booked-160000200.html

Doctors are surprisingly bad at reading lab results

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/posteverything/wp/2018/10/05/feature/doctors-are-surprisingly-bad-at-reading-lab-results-its-putting-us-all-at-risk/?noredirect=on

Cool Chart: Big 5 Book Publishers

https://almossawi.com/big-five-publishers/

Person's Location Capacity = 25

https://www.economist.com/science-and-technology/2018/06/28/at-any-given-time-in-their-lives-people-have-two-dozen-regular-haunts

The 8 Best Predictors of the Long-Term Market

https://www.wsj.com/articles/the-8-best-predictors-of-the-long-term-market-1533521521

How to Have Sex in a Canoe

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/07/26/magazine/how-to-have-sex-in-a-canoe.html

Gravity Model of Trade

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gravity_model_of_trade

Hedonic Editing

https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10902-012-9379-6

The Pursuit of Healthier Offices

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/07/31/business/healthy-office-real-estate.html

Examing the Local Value of Economic Development Incentives

https://www.brookings.edu/research/examining-the-local-value-of-economic-development-incentives/

Do Pipelines Really Create Lots of Jobs?

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/05/10/opinion/environment-pipelines-jobs-carbon.html?rref=collection%2Ftimestopic%2FKeystone%20XL&action=click&contentCollection=timestopics&region=stream&module=stream_unit&version=latest&contentPlacement=1&pgtype=collection

How Bad is Political Partisanship?

A 2016 paper says that partisanship among America's lawmakers is higher today than at any point since Reconstruction after the Civil War.

"In 1990, the probability of correctly guessing a lawmaker's party from a one-minute speech was 55%...by 2008, the probability of correctly identifying a Democrat or Republican had jumped to 83%"

http://www.nber.org/papers/w22423

The leaked NSA Spy Tool That Hacked the World

EternalBlue:
https://www.wired.com/story/eternalblue-leaked-nsa-spy-tool-hacked-world/

The World's Most Traded Goods

https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2018/02/the-top-importers-and-exporters-of-the-world-s-18-most-traded-goods

Descendants of Holocaust Survivors Have Altered Stress Hormones

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/descendants-of-holocaust-survivors-have-altered-stress-hormones/

Quote of the Week

"The short-term, dopamine-driven feedback loops that we have created are destroying how society works."

-Former Facebook executive Chamath Palihapitiya

40% Rule - How Pundits Never Get it Wrong

https://www.wsj.com/articles/how-do-pundits-never-get-it-wrong-call-a-40-chance-1519662425

Problems with the Political Risk Industry

https://inkstickmedia.com/clickbait-charts-nowhere/

Lobbying Doesn't Help Companies or Their Shareholders

https://www.bloomberg.com/view/articles/2018-01-11/lobbying-doesn-t-help-companies-or-their-shareholders

Outsmarting Our Primitive Responses to Fear

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/10/26/well/live/fear-anxiety-therapy.html

Link Between Alcohol and Cancer?

It's not as scary as it seems...
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/11/10/upshot/health-alcohol-cancer-research.html

FDI in Manufacturing

https://www.selectusa.gov/servlet/servlet.FileDownload?file=015t00000000gKi

and

Making it in America: Revitalizng US Manufacturing

https://www.mckinsey.com/global-themes/americas/making-it-in-america-revitalizing-us-manufacturing

Can Congress Stop Trump from Eliminating NAFTA?

https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2017/10/26/16505508/nafta-congress-block-trump-withdraw-trade-power

How Powerful is the Head of the JCT?

https://www.politico.com/story/2016/06/the-most-important-voice-in-the-tax-wars-223752

How Long Does It Take to Conclude an FTA with the US?

https://piie.com/blogs/trade-investment-policy-watch/how-long-does-it-take-conclude-trade-agreement-us

Why You Crave Tomato Juice In-Flight

http://www.nationalgeographic.com/magazine/2016/08/explore-flight-heightens-umami-taste/

Harard on why Politics is Failing

http://www.hbs.edu/competitiveness/research/Pages/research-details.aspx?rid=83