The Tyler Cowen

1. Next year's wars by Foreign Policy. Happily, the Korean peninsula is not on their list. (Although their list seems to be solely populated by countries ripe for internal strife.) 
2. Consumer culture in North Korea. 
3. Beautiful piece about snowflakes and how they relate to people from the New Yorker. (Try to ignore the polarizing red herring regarding global warming at the beginning.) Via The Browser. 

Almost 2011 and still yet a flying car in sight. 

The Tyler Cowen

Embedding videos! Is there nothing we can't do?

1. 38 North on brinksmanship on the peninsula. Don't know if I agree yet. 
2. Corrections to the U-bend of happiness. Statisticians think the relationship is pretty weak. 
3. Stranded Buses
4. The ever-charming Gawker on Kim Jong-un's popularity
5. Nice photos of an environmental tragedy