FREAK-est Links

• Economists in the fiction world.
• Kids who watch SpongeBob score lower in the Stanford Marshmallow Experiment.
• It’s hard to predict what the future holds, but what about what it can’t? That’s called Impossible Futures.
• Restaurant in Saudi Arabia fines customers for unfinished plates.
• Australian robots invent their own language.
• Indonesia’s floating trash problem.
• An online market for parking spots via mobile app.
• Jet packs are for real now: $100,000 a pop, and available in 2012.
• You can cheat humans but not machines: finally, a real lie detector.