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This erotic-stimuli-influencing-spending might be more serious than I thought (see my earlier short comment to Tyler Cowen’s erotics of investing– 2nd bullet point). Although the researchers admit that all their conclusions rely on the men faced with a decision to be taken in a second or so… Yeah, then it could be very true :-).
Month: May 2008
Balanescu Quartet’s “The Model”
Although Kraftwerk’s original version of “The Model” (lyrics in English or German) is very good as well, my take is that The Balanescu Quartet (finally they’ve got a nice website: congrats!)
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The promise of prediction markets, as policy forum article in Science; many Econ Nobelists and future Nobelists on that list of authors… This is a follow up of a statement signed by equally prestigious researchers that I talked about a while ago.
Gone southeastwards
…though only as far as Budapest, which I am enjoying (as always; I love this city!) since yesterday evening. Among other things, I’ll be presenting two papers (one is here, the other one available only as abstract for now on this page or in this conference handbook) at the Comparative Analysis of Enterprise Data (CAED) conference, cruise the Danube, drink top Tokaji wines and admire the beautiful Hungarian women around :-).
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The song of the weekend is John and Taupin’s great “Rocket Man“. And although I like a lot Kate Bush’s version as well, nothing can ever compare to Bill Shatner’s theatrical rendition of this masterpiece (superb youtube old videoclip, with an introduction by Bernie Taupin).
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