Today's Google Doodle is a sweet little Halloween-themed animated short about a lonely ghost. Give it a watch.

Today's Google Doodle is a sweet little Halloween-themed animated short about a lonely ghost. Give it a watch.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1PBkkHi_yeQ&feature=share

Anyone here skilled in game theory?

Anyone here skilled in game theory? Or know someone who is? I have a question that isn't being answered by searching, likely due to the generic nature of the terms I'm using.

What I'm interested in is whether there's been work, either theoretic (math) or behavioral (experiments), where there are two parties making independent decisions, but there are effects on three entities -- the two decision-makers as well as "the community" (which includes the three entities, but in an indistinct manner). Anyone know of anybody doing work on this issue?

JK back at it with another amazing kinetic sculpture.

JK back at it with another amazing kinetic sculpture.
https://sploid.gizmodo.com/watching-this-lego-figure-perpetually-mow-its-lawn-is-t-1819435643

I hope my son's first car love isn't one that runs on gas.

I hope my son's first car love isn't one that runs on gas.
https://www.cnbc.com/2017/10/12/tesla-ceo-elon-musk-reveals-he-owns-two-gasoline-cars.html

Almost 20 years ago, when I first learned to snowboard, one of the rental places we got our gear from one trip...

Almost 20 years ago, when I first learned to snowboard, one of the rental places we got our gear from one trip offered a clip-in snowboard binding. As an ex-skiier, I absolutely loved the step-in/step-out convenience that was really the only thing I missed from skiing. That particular binding was discontinued soon thereafter amid complaints about it coming undone and being generally unreliable (I didn't have any problems, but then I wasn't doing anything resembling big tricks). I've mourned its death ever since, hating the dreaded routine of sitting down and strapping in every time I start to ride. This new Burton Step On gear looks right up my alley and, if the reviews are good, might just get me off the sidelines and into a store to purchase a new setup for my very own.
http://www.snowboarder.com/news/revolutionary-burton-step-system-now-available-pre-order/

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FTA: “Federal tax subsidies to the oil and gas industry alone cost US taxpayers at least US$2 billion each year,”...

FTA: “Federal tax subsidies to the oil and gas industry alone cost US taxpayers at least US$2 billion each year,” write researchers from the Stockholm Environment Institute and Earth Track in a recent Nature Energy article. That $2 billion in uncollected taxes is helping some oil fields go from "unprofitable" to "profitable," increasing the amount of oil that's available for consumption. (The researchers broadly used the term "subsidies" to indicate different types of tax-based support that "confer a financial benefit from government to oil producer.")
https://arstechnica.com/science/2017/10/at-50-a-barrel-billions-in-tax-breaks-keep-many-oil-projects-profitable/