Niste opinii potential interesante pe marginea acestui “studiu” sociologic facut cu picioarele despre cele mai importante (sic!) 10 personalitati din Romania anului 2005, realizat la sfarsit de an in Romania si coordonat de Realitatea TV se afla pe pagini.com
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Merry X-mas!
Jan Tinbergen- un om de stiinta coborat din Turnul de Fildes
Dupa articolul meu din Suplimentul Educational al ziarului Gandul despre Jim Heckman, postez un nou articol publicat recent intr-o forma putin editata (pentru a se incadra in spatiul tipografic), in acest supliment educational, despre Laureatul Nobel in Economie Jan Tinbergen.
→ Read more Science’s Breakthrough of the Year 2005
“Nothing in biology makes sense except in the light of evolution.”
– Theodosius Dobzhansky-
You should not miss this if you are at all interested in science: the entire Breakthrough of 2005 issue of the prestigious journal Science will be available online here, free for everybody until March 2006. → Read more
A bit about the Unabomber & eco-terrorism
In his “Nothing is Sacred. Economic Ideas for the New Millenium”– a book I very much enjoyed, although that is not to say that I agreed 100% with the views stated in it- Robert Barro, one of the pre-eminent current economists and possibly an Economics Nobel Laureate not so far in the future, also talks about Al Gore’s “outrageous book”: “Earth in the Balance: Ecology and the Human Spirit” and his extreme environmental positions taken there.
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