Sometimes Twitter just kills me. Two sides with uncomplicated beliefs, founded almost entirely on emotion, trying to talk the loudest.

Americans will drive across crumbling bridges, send kids to crowded schools, but touch their soda and OMG nanny state.

"Being ill defined is a feature common to all important concepts." Mandelbrot, on why he dated his wife for 5 years before getting married.

Mathematically detecting financial bubbles before they burst http://t.co/MvPhQROi

If you are obsessing over Petraeus' affair, I am assuming you haven't gotten laid in the last year. Just so you know.

.@felixsalmon The fuck you don't do it on purpose. If I've learned anything from Twitter, it's that most journalists are pageview whores.

@nycsouthpaw I think debates should have trap doors, pies, and mild electrocution.

I know plenty of men who have discovered that their résumé won't keep them warm at night and that they've missed their kids' childhoods.

I realize you've never traded anything in your life, but I am *dying* to know your thoughts on risk management.

A Revolution in Mathematics? What Really Happened a Century Ago and Why It Matters Today http://t.co/B8i6c6xS

Trends in College Pricing http://t.co/MMVFCLXH and Trends in Student Aid http://t.co/JzHTj6xI (For people who like actual data.)

So my daughter has learned to snap her fingers and throw things. One of these is more adorable than the other.

.@hblodget Sorry, a slideshow of the women Don Draper has banged doesn't help manage a bond portfolio.

Sheryl Sandberg is the psychological equivalent of Spanx and a push-up bra, with the same target market. Move on already.

Twitter feels so much like high school sometimes. It is possible to like some people a great deal, but dislike their tribe.

So @nemopublius has been geeking out about Bitcoin: Bits  https://self-evident.org/?p=971  Coins  https://self-evident.org/?p=972 

Was Wittgenstein right?  http://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/03/03/was-wittgenstein-right/ … @hw1

Susskind's lectures on cosmology - Lecture 1  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P-medYaqVak … Lecture 2  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=938_TNP4aUs … Lecture 3  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nJlWYDcGr8U …

Historical Echoes: Cash or Credit? Payments and Finance in Ancient Rome  http://libertystreeteconomics.newyorkfed.org/2013/02/historical-echoes-cash-or-credit-payments-and-finance-in-ancient-rome.html … (via @dutch_book) Excellent.

There are so many toxic people on Twitter. Catch and release. You don't have to consume.