Denmark: Happiest lige nu!

This is an absolutely wonderful (and fun to read) article in the BMJ that a short review in today’s NY Times does not do full justice to.

The article explains why the 5.4 million Danes have consistently ranked as happiest Europeans for more than 30 years, on Eurobarometer surveys (they also rank first on the latest World Map of Happiness).  → Read more

Levitt (and Krugman) on the Colbert Report: the video(s)

Yes, I found it in the end, I found the recording of Levitt’s interview from the 5th of December on Colbert’s show (I was also talking about it here )! I must admit that I thought Levitt was “winning” a few times from Colbert, so no doubt the latter must have been very serious when he said in the end of the talk that he does not want any other winners (aka John Bates Clark medal laureates) in the Colbert Report show.
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