The most important financial news of the past two weeks is that scientists have discovered that Jackson Pollock’s technique cleverly avoided a characteristic of fluid dynamics that leads to unwanted curly tails on paint pourings. Finance!
Bernardo Palacios, Alfonso Rosario, Monica M. Wilhelmus, Sandra Zetina, Roberto Zenit.
- Pollock paintings avoid a curly physics problem. futurity.com.
- You silly, silly people. Tyler Cowen. Politics… don’t matter.
- The Myth of the Nazi War Machine. Notes on Liberty.
- Lindsey Graham keeps moving the goalposts to downplay Trump’s Ukraine dealings. Vox. I think a lot of the drama that has unfolded with the Trump administration was fairly predictable in 2016, but one thing that has surprised me is the absolute downfall of Sen. Lindsey Graham as a serious person.
- Stab a Book, the Book Won’t Die. Craigmod.
- Immediate brain plasticity after one hour of brain–computer interface. Journal of Physiology. Brains are so, so cool.
- It’s Time to Take Down the Mona Lisa. NY Times.
- How to Steal a Billion. Oversharing. In the future, it will be good to think back and remember the WeWork saga whenever a financial guy in a suit is trying to tell you he has a special understanding of the marketplace.