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One of the reasons I just love reading Landsburg: he is acid and funny. Here’s something that hopefully will open a longer exchange between him and Krugman: I really think Steve Landsburg is the proper counterpart to Paul Krugman in any debate (NB: Mankiw is great, but too serious and not engaging–understandably– enough in the type of debate Krugman seems to love).
Author: Sebi Buhai
On Noncommutative Geometry, String Theory, and the EU vs. US academe
All this in a 2005 interview with Alain Connes, in Iran (initial link to the PDF of the interview via Tyler Cowen, on MR).
First, I think this is a very welcome, very open interview (several questions/comments are just great, congrats to the interviewers!) → Read more
John Adams on concert coughing
→ Read moreSo the loud cough, most likely completely unconscious, is a way of saying “I can’t handle this, folks. You all may be crowding round Mahler’s deathbed for one final intimate confession.
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Endless Summers (via Mankiw). Supercilious he might well be, but some of us still find him absolutely fascinating– I think I am (in the process of) understanding why :-). Earlier (first bullet point).
Vedrai vedrai…
An old, but eternal, musical masterpiece to start the week, with a well-preserved Luigi Tenco live performance video clip from the 60’s. Lyrics.
→ Read more Grazie, Elena– it is indeed high time I was reminded of Tenco’s superb voice and style.