two links

http://www.kuro5hin.org/story/2003/3/13/34929/5161

Article entitled "Self-Interest and the Social Optimum",
summarizing some papers by economist Lord Richard Layard.
I haven't read the papers yet, but sounds interesting re
the recent thread here.

And on a completely different topic, this is crazy...

http://tinyurl.com/7he2

...Any physics buffs think so?

-Carl

Carl Lumma wrote:

> And on a completely different topic, this is crazy...
> > http://tinyurl.com/7he2
> > ...Any physics buffs think so?

I was reading about this on the bus. There are new results in that show they really are bending light (or at least microwaves) the wrong way. But they're not getting sharp focus, so the "perfect lens" theory may be over optimistic.

Graham