Zamboni hits a bump

Two serious adverse events, Stanford halts CCSVI procedure.

Where will new treatments for stroke come from

by Howells and Donnan. Includes a table with NNT data for stroke treatments.

McDonald criteria 2001

Here.

Free ebooks on economics and business

All,

There are free books at http://bookboon.com/. I don't recognize the authors' names, but the books look good (and they're free, at least free for the price of registration).

Brad

Opportunity Cost

All,

Here is Michael Munger, Chairman of Political Science at Duke, explaining opportunity cost ("the OC" traditionally refers to Orange County): http://bit.ly/cC0HPD.

Brad

All,

Ricardo's comparative advantage idea is one of the most important, poorly understood, and underused concepts in economics. It applies not just in foreign trade, but everywhere there is trade. Even dividing up the household chores might involve comparative advantage.

Here is Nobel Prizewinner Paul Krugman explaining the idea: http://bit.ly/rK0sh. Here you can get a free ebook of Ricardo's Principles of Political Economy and Taxation: http://bit.ly/brRjNO.

Brad

Free Game Theory Book

Game theory started and grew at the RAND Corporation. You can download John D. Williams's The Complete Strategyst here (http://www.rand.org/pubs/commercial_books/CB113-1/). Look below "Add to Cart," where it says "Download pdf version here."