Smart Links 2/27/2010

Without a Single Throw, Tebow Rules the Combine.

At the Combine: Union Will Watch Teams’ Spending.

Is “cellar door” the most beautiful phrase in the English language?

Gus Malzahn has a “secret dossier of Auburn’s most valuable intelligence.” (H/t EDSBS.)

Why the young tend to be more creative than the old. For more on the subject, see this old article by Gladwell.

Boston College linebacker Mark Herzlich ‘not at maximum potential’ for spring, but still on his way.

Arkansas QB Ryan Mallett, ridin’ nerdy on broken foot.

170 year old lost letter by Descartes found.

Where’s Chang? (Gated.) For a related article, see Todd Kliman Pursues the Perfect Chef. Also, Tyler Cowen talks up China Star, Chang’s former restaurant. I have eaten there as well, and it is as advertised.

The New Yorker profiles Paul Krugman.

– Tips on writing fiction from some of the world’s best authors, from the Guardian. Read both parts one and two.

Publishing: The Revolutionary Future, from the New York Review of Books.

During Prohibition, the U.S. government poisoned its own citizens.