Wednesday assorted links

1. Team develops lab-made civet coffee.

2. Will Dubai turn to robo-cops?

3. Claims about rat mobility.

4. New interview with Paul Romer.

5. This viral YouTube video (“will you have sex with me?”) is in fact an object lesson in the econometrics of out-of-equilibrium behavior.

6. Bernanke also will advise Pimco.