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Why we kiss, in case you were wondering… Not much to do with economics per se, unless you want to make the link to things some people consider related, such as when to say “I love you” (4th bullet point):-). And come to think of that, let’s travel one year back in time and (re)consider the (neuro)science of love. Finally, keeping it assorted, you might also want to (re)check why you (don’t) have sex (4th bullet point).
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‘Economics according to Google’: a very interesting interview with Hal Varian, the currrent Chief Economist at Google. The interview was taken just a few days after Varian took over his new (full-time) job. Retain Varian’s prediction: “I think marketing is the new finance“.
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Sell illegal US immigrants the right to stay: wise thoughts (far too wise for any of the current US politicians) from Gary Becker; read also his former posts related to this topic: here, here and here).
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For those of you in any way interested in computing power, here’s the most recent top 500 list of (commercially available) supercomputers (Nov ’07), with all kinds of statistics available. Here’s a PDF on the interpretation of the Top500 data.
