Afternoon roundup

• Radley Balko points to Curtis Melvin's efforts to harness the power of the internets to peel back the veil from North Korea: distributed intelligence.
• Bryan Caplan explains the problem with the Human Development Index:

  Scandinavia comes out on top according to the HDI because the HDI is basically a measure of how Scandinavian your country is.

• Via Reason, Lomborg on the Climate Industrial Complex. Of course, Cowen would argue this is the only way the sausage can be made.
• Bruce Schneier talks sense on the recent terrorism arrests in the US.
• Lee Gomez on privacy regulation: expensive and ineffective.
• How meerkats know when to ease their young off welfare. But wouldn't any individual pup have an evolutionary advantage if its voice stayed higher for longer?