The Tyler Cowen

1. A conservative changes sides.
2. US debt visualized. Via Gawker.
3. Dense essay on how we under-expect our own extinction. Via Marginal Revolution.
4. Emotional x-ray specs.
5. I wish I had thought of this blog first. Up there with Kim Jong Il looking at things.

The Tyler Cowen

1. Excellent, haunting photography. Via Gawker.
2. Terrifying news about antibiotics. Via Marginal Revolution.
3. Funny application of the 'two cows' economic joke to the Middle East.
4. More funny stuff from Jon Stewart.

Quick apocalypse link

The threats to our continued existence were terrifying enough without impossible to predict or forestall cosmic events. Thank you very much Cracked! (Although I do appreciate the levity with which you present these terrors.)

The Tyler Cowen

1. Smart phones in North Korea.
2. Yellowstone...still scary. (Scarier still after seeing 2012.)
3. When diplomacy and humanity clash.
4. US-Saudi relations are worsening. Somewhere, Michael Ruppert is planting his organic crops, waiting for the collapse.
5. Capitalizing on the Arab Spring in positive, economic ways. 

2012 Review

My review of Inception was hardly glowing and based on some pretty unapologetic criticisms of not just the movie but the psychological soundness of those who enjoyed it. While I'm not going to back down from those comments, I will post a glowing review of 2012. That way, those who love Inception can discount my disgust as the ramblings of a madman and refer to my 2012 review as proof of my lunacy. To all the Inception fans out there: this is my gift to you.

2012 is everything a disaster movie should be.

The Tyler Cowen

1. In our third Cowen in a row (?), COLBERT AND STEWART MAKE AN APPEARANCE!
2. Krugman on the Paul Ryan plan.
3. Post-apocalypse preview.

The Tyler Cowen

1. How the turmoil in the Middle East is reopening ideological rifts among Neoconservatives. (I NEED to finish this damned hierarchy of needs article.)
2. North Korea builds a new long range missile pad. 
3. Great infographic breaking down the income inequality in America. 
4. Post-apocalypse now. Via The Browser.

Apocalypse!

Well, we're all going to die. Apparently the super volcano beneath Yellowstone just blipped onto our collective radars again thanks to some geological shifting that moved ground as much as 10 inches in some places. Here at BofHam we first learned about this super volcano several years ago via the Discovery Channel on a lazy-turned-terrifying Sunday afternoon.

Making it rain

Sneaky Swiss!

A company out of Switzerland called Meteo Systems has claimed that it is responsible for 52 unexpected storms in the Middle East. I don't know if I recall my lazy Sundays with the Discovery Channel accurately, but isn't the Earth's weather system a finely balanced network? Butterfly effects abound and global warming in the Arctic can bring about frigid winters in New England? Of all the supposed hubris and folly of man's attempts to control nature, making it rain in the desert seems to me a pretty dangerous proposition.