Assorted links

1. “Let them eat cake that looks like ramen.”

2. Dani Rodrik has lots of tweets on what is going on in Turkey.

3. “Spengler” makes claims about China.

4. Is fake knee surgery as good as real knee surgery?  And is the decline of football proceeding?

5. Update on the “auction off the rights to kill a black rhino to save some black rhinos” debate.

6. Michael Nielsen on how Bitcoin protocols really work.