We need some more ridiculous things besides The Cabinet of Natural Curiosities.

It is one of the curiosities of our historical era that even as cognitive surplus is becoming a resource we can design around, social sciences are also starting to explain how important our intrinsic motivations are to us, how much we do things because we like to do them rather than because our boss told us to do them, or because we're being paid to do them.

Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf s resignation brings to an end one of the more interesting curiosities of subcontinental politics for more than four years, Pakistan had a president who was born in India, while India had a Prime Minister (Manmohan Singh) who was born in Pakistan. Since the two countries separation is now more than six decades old, that anomaly is unlikely to be repeated.