I am happy to belong to a nation that is too small to commit big follies.
Hendrik Antoon Lorentz
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Month: February 2007
Today’s song: Francesco de Gregori’s “La Donna Cannone”
Francesco de Gregori does not need any introduction: for anybody who knows Italian music, this artist is one of their gods. He is one of my top 5 favourite Italian musicians, in his case superlative both as singer and as songwriter.
→ Read more As usually, Eddie Lazear rocks!
This is going to be very very interesting, indeed somewhat of a “giant leap for the blogosphere” (especially if it would set a precedent!), as Stephen Dubner calls it. Unfortunately, I will only have time to read all the discussions in a few days; as usually I am too busy… So Prof.
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Economics at work! Compare this article from the BBC (echoing what I believe to be the ‘general’- rather gloomy!- perspective on China’s gender imbalance) and the viewpoints of economists Gary Becker and Richard Posner, who start from discussing whether there is any valid case for forbidding the ‘sex selection’ practice, but end up discussing a series of wider implications.
→ Read more The (real) danger of emulating Jack Bauer’s torture techniques
My friend Dan wrote a couple of times on Jack Bauer and the ’24’ TV series. To start with my opinion on that series, I don’t think it is bad (could be even exciting now and then), although I’ve seen much better ones and, moreover, it simply drives me crazy to see an episode stop exactly after that one hour and to have to wait for the next one etc.
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