Saturday assorted links

1. Obstacles to self-driving cars.

2. Paul Bloom is against empathy.

3. Why your flight was cancelled.

4. The Google drone program.

5. Is IT spending going down in real terms?

6. Publication bias in the social sciences.

7. Are these the most boring or the most interesting people in the UK?  “But these things become detached from what it’s OK to have curiosity about.”  I thought this was a truly excellent piece.  And here is the SneezeCount website.  Read this too, and this.  After those, you don’t need to look at anything else on the internet today.