TOTM

Planet Money on Kittens, Keynes, and the Stock Market

Prompted by this post at Cafe Hayek, I recently participated in a web experiment sponsored by NPR’s Planet Money.  I was asked to watch three short animal videos and vote for the animal I found cutest.

The videos were all pretty cute.  One featured a polar bear cub sliding along the ice with its mother.  Another featured a loris — a wide-eyed adorable creature with which I was not familiar — being tickled under its arms.  I voted for the critter in the third video, a tiny kitten that would throw its arms back in surprise when its handler made a certain noise and motion.  That dang kitten was excruciatingly cute.  I watched the video several times.

Read the full piece here.