Reading Lounge

1. On American anthropologist Margaret Mead: “She is … a loathsome bitch flattened out to a malodorous allegory,”

2. Rent-seeking in Africa during the slave trade

3. Rat baiting - Tiny The Wonder, a 5.5 lb terrier who was able to kill 200 rats in one hour (via Slate Star Codex)

4. Remember Palm?

5. How to do a startup

6. How often do dictators have positive economic effects?

7. Design fails