Links: Quinoa, “Tworld Development,” TED Tyranny, and a Tasty MOOC

Last updated on April 16, 2014

1. An excellent article on quinoa in Harper’s (subscription required, unfortunately).
2. Arun Agrawal, the editor of World Development, is now on Twitter.
3. James McWilliams on the tyranny of TED Talks: “The irony of TED is that its promotion of original thought is undercut by the format’s canned requirement that the message inspire without challenging.”
4. Call for Papers for the  Joint EAAE/AAEA Seminar: “Consumer Behavior in a Changing World: Food, Culture and Society.“
5. Finally, a MOOC I’d want to take: Science and Cooking: From Haute Cuisine to the Science of Soft Matter. And it’s free (except for the opportunity cost of time, of course.)