Links for 5/28/10

1. Interview with Emanuel Derman, author of the excellent My Life as a Quant.
2. Painful profile of a student with too much college debt.  I agree with the author that this is the partly the responsibility of financial aid departments.  I think the primary responsibility lies in the lack of a personal finance course taught at the high school level.  In my opinion it is scandalous that there is not such a course required at every high school in America.  It's as if the schools are preparing a polity ready to be duped by high, variable interest credit card and mortgage companies.
3. Great artistic video about motivational psychology research.  Open source software is a key example.