– Via METAezra, new lanterns for Willard Straight!
– Good news for me, Cornell researchers find that children with airborne allergies are at a reduced risk for certain kinds of cancer.
– For those of you staying in Ithaca over the summer, be sure to buckle your seat belts (until at least June 6).
– Skorton is opposed to “Don’t ask, don’t tell.”
– Doctors at Weill Cornell Medical College attempt to use a radical new procedure to save two Irish children suffering from a rare neurodegenerative disorder.
– As many of us learned in Econ 3580, a well implemented sin tax on soda can lead to positive outcomes for those who have over-consumption problems without hurting fully rational people. (HT Nate Schorr).
– Did anyone know that Ithaca had penalties for smoking in certain recreational areas?
– Apparently the Ithaca Wegmans spends $20k per year retrieving and replacing shopping carts.
– An interesting profile on Cornell grad/entrepreneur Jessica Trybus ’99.
– Great espn.com article on anonymous sources in journalism.
– Why the collapse of the Euro would “open the door to democracy.”
“As many of us learned in Econ 3580, a well implemented sin tax on soda can lead to positive outcomes for those who have over-consumption problems without hurting fully rational people.” Maybe so, but this article was really, REALLY unconvincing.
Agreed, but I doubt that casual readers would have been able to understand all the beta delta omega stuff, ha.
I don’t really buy the beta delta stuff either, at least in terms of improving life for “over-consumers.”