Assorted links

1. The Monty Python culture that is Norway.

2. Tim Harford on the limits of Big Data.

3. Can gratitude reduce costly impatience?

4. Education, in-state vs. out-of-state tuition arbitrage.  File under markets in everything.

5. Why has the price of limes quadrupled?

6. Proof by watercolor painting: “The Lamington, Australia’s famed dessert, was actually invented in New Zealand and originally named a “Wellington”, according to new research published by the University of Auckland.”

7. The extreme hazards of microbial sex (speculative).