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Jacob A. GellerThe world needed an economist,but instead it got this blog. |
November 18th, 2012, 8:00 am . . | . . 0 comments
1. Urine-powered generator (but does it work?). HT Chris Blattman.
4. Machine that plays slices of wood like vinyl records (video).
5. Poorer people continue to vote Democrat, in one chart. Notice the declining marginal propensity to vote Republican.
6. Marijuana liberalization reduces drunk driving fatalities, also see graph here.
Jacob Aaron Geller is a Master's student of Economics at Boston University.
Sometimes Jacob reaches deep into his pocket and thinks he's found a crumpled ball of cash, but instead it turns out to be a ball of old receipts, and he thinks to himself, "this is what it's like to study economics."
On a good day, Jacob looks like this:
You can follow him on twitter @JacobAGeller.
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